Abstract The intense employment environment causes some college students to start their own business, arousing people's hot debate on entrepreneurship education. Through reading a large number of documents and collecting mass data, this paper analyzes the current situation of entrepreneurship education in China: the gap between entrepreneurial education and professional education, the discrepancy between the number of people who intend to start a business and that of those who hold on to it, the inadequate discipline construction of the entrepreneurship education, etc, making the in-depth analysis of the causes and putting forward the countermeasures for the development of entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities from three aspects of society, colleges and universities, and individuals.