Synthesis of the Challenges of Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education

Entrepreneurial skill and training of entrepreneurs is an important factor in socio-economic growth and development. Accordingly, this study seeks to analyze the challenges of entrepreneurship education in higher education.

This research is applied in terms of purpose and qualitative in terms of method. First, among 320 research articles and using the prism method, 22 articles, between 1390 and 1400, from the international scientific sources "Tyler and Francis", "Eric", "Web of Science", "Science Direct", "Google Scholar scientific search engine and Persian information sources, "Kashish Publications Information Bank", "University Jihad Scientific Information Database", "Iran Institute of Information Science and Technology" and "Noor Specialized Journals Database", after meeting the entry and exit criteria, selected and studied and collecting information based on available sources were reviewed.

The findings show that entrepreneurship education in higher education has four main challenges such as "organizational challenges", "professors' challenges", "students' challenges" and "educational challenges".

The findings of the research show that entrepreneurship education has many challenges due to the establishment of the traditional system in Iranian universities. Therefore, in order to provide efficient entrepreneurship education at the level of higher education, action should be taken to solve these challenges.