Nayab Saba2025-12-122025-12-122018https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/16043An entrepreneur is individual who has visions about the world with a different perspective to creating something new. Education plays an important role in influencing the barriers that are faced by women to become entrepreneurs. There is a cultural belief in Pakistan that women are dependent their husbands, parents, or relatives/ social circle who are leading the businesses. Women’s intentions and development of their ideas are not guided properly due to the lack of entrepreneurship education and training during their study time period. The research questions were addressed by conducting quantitative method, random sampling and cluster sampling techniques. Data was collected through survey research design and statistical analysis was conducted through SPSS version 21.0. Instrument was based on the factors of women’s intentions, barriers and education in the course of becoming entrepreneurs. Public and private universities from Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan were selected as population of the research study. The study comprised five hundred female students as the sample from engineering, natural sciences, social sciences, and business departments of both sectors. The results of study were to analyze the relationship between women’s intentions, barriers and role of education to overcome these barriers to become entrepreneurs. This study was limited by female students and area of Lahore. Key words: entrepreneurial intentions, role of education, women barriersenThesis