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  • This study was conducted to determine differences in the competence of the SMEs owner/managers viewed from a gender and education perspective. Using the purposive sampling technique, the sample of 55 owners/managers of SMEs export in Malang, techniques of data collection questionnaires and interviews. Entrepreneurial competence consists of conceptual competency, opportunity competency, relationship competency, learning competency, and personal competency. Educational differences seen from university and high school graduates. The analysis showed no differences in entrepreneurial competence woman and men entrepreneurs in running the business, but there was difference in competence between entrepreneurial woman and men based university education background. Woman entrepreneurs tend to have an edge competence in relationship competency aspect, while the owners/managers of SMEs, men tend to have the advantage of competence in the conceptual aspects of competency. SMEs owners/managers of university educational background have better competence in running a business, especially conceptual competency, and relationship competency. Another finding of this study that the educational background of university-critical in shaping the entrepreneurial competence. Limitations of this study is not to consider the experience of running a business, so that further research can examine the role of business experience as a determinant of entrepreneurial competencies