With this master's thesis we conducted a research about the quality of teaching at the university level and learning goal orientation of pre-service primary school teachers. The study was conducted at two locations: at the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb in Croatia, and at the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. We also conducted a research on whether or not there is a difference in the quality of teaching between the University of Zagreb and the University of Ljubljana, and if there is a difference in learning goal orientation between students of those universities. The objectives of the study were to find out if the quality of university teaching influences learning goal orientantion of the students; how are the quality of university teaching and learning goal orientation connected; why and how are students of Faculty of Teacher Education trying to achieve certain goals, and if there is a difference between the students in Zagreb and the students in Ljubljana. For this purpose a one-time descriptive survey questionnaire was conducted on a sample of 400 subjects, of which 114 were Slovenian, and 286 were Croatian subjects. The research goals were achieved, i.e. the connection between the quality of university teaching and learning goal orientations of the students, and differences in the quality of teaching between the University of Zagreb and the University of Ljubljana. The results showed that the quality of teaching and learning goal orientations are not connected. However, there is a statistically significant difference in the assessed quality of academic education between the two groups of students (University of Zagreb and the University of Ljubljana), and a statistically significant difference in target orientation of learning in one of the three segments, among the two studied groups.