An increasing demand for entrepreneurship education is a clear indication that entrepreneurship is getting important to the worldwide economy. Through reviewing highly cited papers on entrepreneurship education, the paper intends to identify important trends, developments, and issues that make an impact on the field. The study investigated key theories, models, methods, research framework, research domain, findings, implications, promising avenues in previous scholarly work in entrepreneurship education. The paper grouped findings based on theoretical, methodological, and thematic approaches. Results indicate digital technology domain, moving into an interdisciplinary approach, research under various theoretical lenses and methodologies, underpinning correlational  or causal relationships between variables to better grasp the full picture, cognitive, content and pedagogical knowledge and developing new measures on some existing variables will be of value for future research direction in entrepreneurship education. The paper outlines suggestions to advance upcoming entrepreneurship education studies and contribute to the future development of the field.