To analyze the students motivation to study abroad, this study first collected some data on international student mobility in recent years (UNESCO, 2022), the number of Chinese students studying abroad and China's economic development of GDP from the World Bank (2022), the choice of Chinese students' destination countries, and other related data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China (2020). It is found that with the development of China's economy, the choice of students' destination countries for study abroad is no longer singularly limited to some economic powers such as the United States, but the number of international students from many other countries has also started to grow rapidly. In this context, the analysis shows that the number of Chinese students studying in Hungary has been increasing year by year, and now the number of Chinese students has reached the second place (DNH, 2022). The analysis of the motivation of students coming to study in Hungary can help to solve these problems. Then conclusions are drawn by studying Chinese students who come to study at the University of Debrecen through the method of in-depth interviews. The innovation of this paper is to make a more in-depth exploratory analysis of the motivation of contemporary college students to study abroad based on the in-depth interview data of six Chinese students studying at Debrecen University and using the method of qualitative research. At the same time, it is based on the data from the Institute of International Education on the number of Chinese international students going abroad in 2022. It intuitively expands horizontally to analyze the main motives of international students studying abroad.