This study adopts a configurational approach to discover salient conditions common to entrepreneurship students in venture creation programs (VCPs) who show high entrepreneurial career maturity at graduation. We draw on social cognitive career theory to identify four psychological states and two social processes conducive to such conditions. Computational text analysis and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) employed on reflection reports produced by VCP students at a university in Sweden between 2015 and 2020 yield six configurations of present and absent conditions sufficient for producing high entrepreneurial career maturity. The findings underscore the need for an integrative approach to comprehend how psychological and social attributes interact to foster a well-rounded awareness of the expectations and challenges of an entrepreneurial career.
