Understanding the motive and motivation is key to defining the behaviour of individuals and understanding the decisions for a particular alternative. Motivation is analysed in detail through this paper as a psihological process which relates to general behaviour and motives as specificall cause of said behaviour. The purpose of this thesis is to determine the motivation of third and fourth year high school students in Dubrovnik to continue education the teoretical part applies also on the students so that you can define their motivation and the process of making the decision of further education. To reach the point of this thesis a online research was made using the questionnarie on a pattern of 333 senior high school students in Dubrovnik. The results of the research are presented in the empiric part of the thesis and reffer to the point that Dubrovnik high school students have all the necessary information about the posibilitties of further education and that they are motivated to continue their education. The intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for continuing education is associated with gender and it has been shown that female students are more interested in enrolling than male students. In addition, amotivation was found to be associated with success and that those students who had lower average success were more amotivated.