Nowadays, a very important factor for business is knowing how to adapt to a new culture, as an increasing number of employees go on international assignments as expatriates. The characteristics of individual countries or nations represent different cultural values, and for adapting international cultural values, an individual’s cultural intelligence is developed through life in his country and his or her previous intercultural experiences. Because of the importance of understanding other cultures, this thesis explores the connection between the cultural values of the home country and the cultural intelligence of students expatriates, essential for adapting new cultural values. Expatriate students are students on an international assignment that is in the form of schooling. The paper systematizes the relevant existing literature on expatriates, dimensions of culture, and cultural intelligence, and the paper is the result of a survey through a questionnaire in which 104 respondents participated. Empirical research has confirmed the connection between cultural values and cultural intelligence within expatriate students. The results of the research showed that motivated students go to international schoolings to enrich their knowledge and learn about other cultures. In other words, respondents are aware of the lack of their cultural knowledge and enjoy communicating with individuals of other cultures to enrich their knowledge. Students of different cultural values also have different views of other cultures, so it is evident how the cultural value they come from forms their cultural intelligence.