Abstract
This explanatory research focuses on entrepreneurial intention. It investigates the main factors determining entrepreneurial intention in higher education institution. The research aims are to highlight students' entrepreneurial intention, and to test an extended Theory of Planned Behaviour. A quantitative survey was conducted on a sample of 2778 Saudi freshmen students. The research findings reveal that the TPB is a validated tool to predict entrepreneurial intentions of Freshmen Students. The results provide a strong support for the TPB antecedents which contributing to the intention explanation. The findings confirm the idea that the control variables influence indirectly the TPB antecedents, and the explanation of entrepreneurial intentions. The results show also many significant relationships such as between students' entrepreneurial intention and social norms, and between career choice intention and gender. Furthermore, it was found that there was a Saudi entrepreneurial student profile. The findings reveal also that the entrepreneurship socialization in Saudi context operated throughout relatives and friends for both male and female students. They allowed to compare College Economics and Administrative Sciences students' entrepreneurial intention with GUESSS international standard.