Since entrepreneurship is commonly considered as a solution to the unemployment problem, higher education in general and entrepreneurship education in particular encourage entrepreneurial activity among students and generate more graduates who are the future entrepreneurs. The present study aims to investigate the effect of entrepreneurship education programs on students' intentions to launch a new venture after completing their studies. An ex ante/ex post study with 145 first-year students was conducted in a four-year public university. The association between entrepreneurial intention and its antecedents was examined using regression analysis, and the effectiveness of the intervention was evaluated using a Paired Samples test. The intervention had no discernible effects, but the only meaningful relationship found was that with Personal Attraction. In general, the research findings suggests that entrepreneurship education programs develop the students’ intention to be self-employed. Practically, the present research provides useful information and insights for those who create, execute and evaluate educational programs to increase students’ entrepreneurial intention. Our results clearly imply that the involvement in entrepreneurship education can significantly affect students' subjective norms and PBC, supporting the idea that universities can promote entrepreneurial abilities and subjective norms through entrepreneurship education programs.