Entrepreneurship education promotes entrepreneurial culture and entrepreneurship, and in Colombia this institution is compulsory in educational establishments. Colombian universities adopt this approach, providing education on entrepreneurship, to undertake and innovate, to maintain and develop companies. How do they do it? What kind of entrepreneurship do they foster? Can the entrepreneurial culture and entrepreneurship that they foster contribute to overcoming poverty, socioeconomic growth and human development? These are questions that allowed the construction of this article and the use of a type of descriptive and explanatory research, the analysis of universities committed to entrepreneurship, determined, that teaches economic, social, technological and environmental entrepreneurship, promoting internal and external entrepreneurship, with which students and graduates Have been able to increase the productive effectiveness and the creation of companies, contributing to the overcoming of the monetary poverty and to the human development of these.