The purpose of this study was to develop an employment barrier scale for university students and to verify its validity. The first preliminary questionnaire with 177 items was made up after reviewing previous studies and analyzing focus group interview results of university students. The content validity was examined by two experts and the second preliminary questionnaire was set up. The final preliminary questionnaire with 78 items was completed after collecting and analyzing data from 250 university students in P city. Data from 605 university students in S, P, J and K city were analyzed and through factor analysis the employment barrier scale with 5 factors and 45 items was developed. Reliability of the final employment barrier scale for university students was verified and inter-item consistency was relatively high(α= .68~.73) in the entire scale as well as in three sub-factors. To validate validity of the developed scale, the correlation analysis was done between the employment barrier scale and Korean Career Barriers Inventory and Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy Scale. As a result, the Employment Barrier Scale showed a very strong positive correlation with Career-seeking Barrier Scale and a relatively high negative correlation with Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy Scale. Limitations to the current study and recommendations for future research are discussed.