This research investigates the degree of meeting parental expectations and career choice difficulties of Chinese international students using the LPEI (Wang & Heppner, 2022) and the CDDQ (Gati et al., 1996). We predict that parents' expectations will influence Chinese international students' career choices and return to China. Yet, preliminary results suggested differential effects; too low or too high in meeting parental expectations did not affect students’ career and return plans, but moderately meeting expectations did predict.