Entrepreneurial intentions are influenced by the perceived behavior control of individuals, which it refers to the perceived probability of an individual to accessing to the resources or the opportunity to carry out a successful behavior, in this case, the creation of a business. This research searches for examining the influence of perceived behavioral control in the entrepreneurial intentions of engineering students from the Facultad de Minas in the Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medellín. The proposed methodological design is exploratory-descriptive type. It was used as a technique of data collection a questionnaire applied to a sample of 289 university students from the Facultad de Minas in the Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Medellín. The main results it is observed that most students surveyed think that starting a business requires good business opportunities in the market and a lot of financial means. Furthermore, they consider that an entrepreneur needs to have applied knowledge (know-how) to move from intention to action to create the business. Moreover, it is observed that students perceive the business creation is an action that depends on them in autonomously way and not on the characteristics of the context.