Introduction:

Entrepreneurship is a relevant topic for developed or developing countries, as it has a positive effect on their economic growth. Entrepreneurial attitude is a desirable quality in university students, who are of high interest in entrepreneurship education and research, since at that stage people define their life projects.

Objective:

This research was conducted with the objective of determining whether educational support for entrepreneurship (ESE) is related to the entrepreneurial intention (EI) of university students.

Method:

Participants were 138 students from three academic programs: public accounting (n=43), administration (n=75) and foreign trade (n=20) participated and answered an online questionnaire. Using JASP software, correlations between EI and ESE were established through Spearman tests. First, the data were analyzed as a whole and then each academic program separately. Differences in EI and ESE among academic programs were also analyzed using the Kruskal-Wallis test. Results: A positive, moderate to strong correlation (Spearman's Rho = 0.572, p =0.00) was found between students' EI and ESE. There were no significant differences in the levels of EI or ESE among the three academic programs (Kruskal-Wallis test, p > 0.05). Positive, moderate to strong correlation was also found in each program analyzed: public accounting (rho = 0.45, p=0.002), administration (rho=0.664, p=0.000) and foreign trade (rho=0.480, p=0.032).

Conclusions:

Evidence was found to support the hypothesis that ESE is positively related to students' EI.

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