Entrepreneurial Intention among College Students: Determinants Towards Entrepreneurship

Abstract

This study entitled “Entrepreneurial Intention among Community Science College Students: Determinants towards entrepreneurship” aimed at profiling entrepreneurship among 100 graduating classstudents at I.C. College of Home Science and identify determinants of their entrepreneurial intentions. The study used survey design andcollected information through structured questionnaire from prospective graduates.The experiment on determinants of entrepreneurial intention among community science students revealed that the level of most (64.0%) of the student’s personal attitude was in the medium category. Additionally, 78.0 per cen of the students valued subjective norms at a value of medium level while 53.0 per cent student’s perceived control in entrepreneurship was in the high category. This means that students already have an intention in entrepreneurship indicated by the existence of intention, willingness, and efforts to run a business. The data observed positive correlation of .207 between age and planned behaviour of the students that means that older students had better scores on planned behaviour. Similarly the students with high level of entrepreneurial background, entrepreneurial aspiration and exposure to entrepreneurship training had higher attitude towards behaviour, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control that results in higher entrepreneurial intention to create jobs. Between the three variables, student’s subjective norm is the most significant variable to predict their entrepreneurial intention.