There is a higher demand than ever for sustainable entrepreneurs. To meet the demand and
laying the foundation for an increase in educating sustainable entrepreneurs, higher education
can play a crucial part. Entrepreneurial intent is looked as an important and significant part for
developing students entrepreneurship, and is the first step in the entrepreneurial process.
Researcher through decades have found that entrepreneurial education and higher education
affect or influence students’ intention to become an entrepreneur. However the literature as to
where education has an effect on sustainable entrepreneurial intent(SEI) is fragmented. It
would be beneficial to synthesize the current evidence in different areas of the topic to move
forward and improve its usefulness for researchers and especially practitioners so it can be
used to evolving the sustainable entrepreneurship education in a stronger direction to increase
university students sustainable entrepreneurial intent. This paper conducted a systematic
literature review supplemented by snowballing backward to gather the evidence on
antecedents to sustainable entrepreneurial intent and teaching methods. In the literature
review a total of 272 articles was screened from Web of Science and Scopus in the initial
search resulting in 22 articles. An additional 7 articles was found by backward snowballing
making the total number of articles included to 29. Most of the articles identified in the
systematic review have used the Theory of planned behavior by Ajzen, by itself or in an
combination with others to study the relationship between several antecedents and SEI. The
findings of this literature review revealed that higher education indeed appears to positively
affect students SEI by influencing many antecedents, predicators and mediators to SEI. SEI
can be viewed as newer field of study within entrepreneurial research. The surprisingly low
yield of studies concerning themselves with specific teaching methods, approaches, strategies
or tools, suggests the need for further research into teaching methodologies for increasing
SEI. However it has grown significantly in the last 3 years and is a field in development.
More diversity in research methods as well as research settings could greatly enhance this
promising research domain of sustainable entrepreneurship education.