The invention relates to a glycol ether preparation method, mainly solving the problems of the original technique that the target product, glycol ether, has low selectivity, high alcohol/ epoxy ethane ratio (alcohol/ alkyl ratio) and no concern on catalyst stability. The invention uses epoxy ethane and lower fatty alcohol as raw materials, adopts niobium oxide as a main activated component, and chooses at least one of elements or compounds of V, Mo, Sn, Pb, La, Pr, Nd as auxiliary agent to form catalyst, so as to prepare glycol ether under the reaction temperature of 100 to 300 DEG C, reaction pressure of 0.1 to 3.0MPa, alcohol/ alkyl ratio of 1-5: 1, and reaction time of 30 minutes to 8.0 hours. The technical proposal can well solve the problem and can be used for the industrial production of the glycol ether.