The article discusses the essential characteristics of social entrepreneurship. The authors emphasize that the origins of social entrepreneurship in entrepreneurship is a special kind of market behavior. Creating and establishing intersectoral cooperation that will meet economic and social needs will enable success in this area. Our country still lacks a legislative initiative and a clear policy aimed at the development of this phenomenon. Society needs to be prepared for the fact that many social problems can be solved not only by the state, but also by private individuals seeking to make the world at least a little bit better. It`s necessary to form among young people the correct idea of social entrepreneurship and how with their own resources and with the support of specialized organizations one can achieve the solution of many pressing problems of our time. From the standpoint of the formation and development of entrepreneurial qualities, the education system should contribute to a change in value orientations, equip the population with sustainable knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of entrepreneurship, motivate the individual to this activity, which requires finding and implementing new approaches to the content and organization of the educational process for all levels of education. The article shows the results of a study on the problems of the process of formation of entrepreneurial competence among students. The research showed the presence of entrepreneurial skills and a desire to implement it at the end of the learning process. A good step towards the development of this type of business would be the emergence in universities of a developed entrepreneurial infrastructure, moreover, aimed at solving social problems in society.