An Empirical Study of the Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Intention of College Students

Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), this paper investigates 600 undergraduates, and builds a Probit model to verify the affecting degree of entrepreneurship education on students' entrepreneurial intentions. This study shows the entrepreneurial education has a positive impact on students' entrepreneurship intentions, among which the impact of entrepreneurial knowledge education and culture education on entrepreneurship intentions is more significant than that of entrepreneurial practice education; some other key factors like risk-taking tendency, need of achievement, entrepreneurial attitude, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy also have a positive effect on the promotion of the students' entrepreneurial intentions; the entrepreneurial intentions of male students are higher than those of female students.