A close follow-up of improvement in one’s career and self-renewal is possible merely with life-long learning. Life-long learning has a superior place among studies carried out in the field of education around the world as “life-long learning” is a concept that can be realized anywhere, and removes any limitation such as place, time, age, education level etc. From this point of view, it will be meaningful and significant to discuss life-long learning in a process where we increasingly feel the requirements thereof, particularly in terms of teacher candidates. The aim of this research is to analyze competence perception of teacher candidates towards life-long learning approach according to some variables. The study group in this research consists of primary school teacher candidates who have been studying at the Education Faculty in Manisa Celal Bayar University in 2015-2016 academic year. The research is a descriptive study which will be conducted with a survey model. ‘Life-long Competence Scale’ which was developed by Uzunboylu and Hürsen (2011) will be used as the data collection tool. The data will be analyzed with statistical packet programs. In this study it will be recommended the other researchers that competence perception of teacher candidates towards life-long learning.