This study examined the effects of start-up education currently offered in China on university students’ intention to found start-ups. As numerous global countries pay attention to and invest in start-up education, China is more intensively nurturing the start-up field than other countries. This study was conducted on students who had completed start-up education courses offered by Zhejiang University, Wenzhou University, Ningbo University and Zhejiang Ocean University, all located in Zhejiang, China, for two months from October to November, 2019. Out of 450 collected questionnaires, the data from 428 questionnaires, except for 22 incomplete ones, were used for final analysis. The analysis found that start-up education has positive effects on students’ entrepreneurial attitude, subjective norms, and self-efficacy. It was also found that entrepreneurial attitude, subjective norms, and self-efficacy have positive effects on their intention to found start-ups. But start-up education was verified to have no statistically significant and direct effect on their intention to found start-ups. Lastly, with the theory of planned behavior (TPB), it was verified that there is a mediation effect between start-up education and the intention to found start-ups. In conclusion, the results of this study show that substantive start-up education can maximize entrepreneurial attitude, subjective norms and self-efficacy, thus increasing the intention to found start-ups due to mediation effects. The results suggest that if start-up education focuses on practical attitude, norms and confidence, instead of arousing interest through occasional events, it can lead to students’ actions out of their will to found start-ups. This study drew a meaningful implication that start-up education should be designed in connection with students’ growth in phases. Therefore, this study has a great implication for the future direction and policies of start-up education offered at universities in Korea, where start-up education is expanding yet there is a small increase in the number of start-ups.