Motivating college students' learning is an essential goal for teachers and educators in higher education institutions. Motivation is an important key for effective and successful learning. However, this task is not straight forward nor easy as there are many factors affecting students learning which is only a part of their academic and social lives. This study was designed to determine the main factors that motivate college students to learn from students' perspective. Participants were 232 (162 females and 70 males) from Al-Ain University, a private university at the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Students responded to a specific instrument that has 30 Likert- type items describing many issues related to motivating students toward learning. Results showed that there are three main factors clearly extracted from the data. These three factors together accounted for more than 50% of the variance in the model. The first and most important factor consisted of 12 items related to teacher personality. The second factor had also 12 items about teaching methods. Classroom management was the third factor which consisted of related 6 items. Results of the study were discussed and compared with findings from related literature.