In the last decades in the Italian and European universities, there has been an increasing emphasis in all activities related to internationalization. These activities have gradually increased in terms of number of students and teachers involved, have become more complex and cover many aspects of the university education. The University of Bergamo has aligned, making internationalization one of the main guidelines for the future development. The purpose of this contribution is to analyse students’ motivations and expectations regarding their study abroad experience. The authors have conducted an on-line survey addressed to a sample of about 1300 Italian students enrolled in the University of Bergamo. To assess the results of the survey, we propose a mapping of the response variables using the VOSviewer software.