Abstract

The unemployment among university students become main issues in Malaysia since the increasing number of umnemployed graduates from higher education institution. In order to minimize this issue, entrepreneurship become one of the main solutions especially for higher education institution in Malaysia. This including the Kolej Islam Antarabangsa Sultan Ismail Petra (KIAS), Kelantan, Malaysia which provided entrepreneurship as main core subjects for their program of studies. Thus, this research tends to examine the factors that influence entrepreneurial intention among diploma student at Kolej Islam Antarabangsa Sultan Ismail Petra (KIAS) by using The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). Quantitative research design has been where 100 set of questionnaires has been distributed to target respondents in order to get the necessary information. All data were panalyzed using SmartPLS software. The finding shows that attitude and entrepreneurial education are significant towards entrepreneurship intention. Therefore, this study is expected to provide a significant insight towards higher institutions, public as well as government about entrepreneurial intention.

Highlights

  • Entrepreneurship can be a procedure to generate new venture and new organization (Tran & Von Korflesh, 2016)

  • Based on Dass (2018), GDP for Malaysia rose 6% continuously in three years, unemployment rate achieved 3.4% in 2017 especially unemployment rate for youth was reached 13.2%. This indicated that unemployment rate was not reduced GDP in Malaysia was increase

  • The questionnaire in this study consists three parts: Part A to collect demographic profile from target respondents; Part B is to identify the feedback of target respondents towards entrepreneurial intention; Part C is to identify the feedback of target respondents towards attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and entrepreneurial education

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Introduction

Entrepreneurship can be a procedure to generate new venture and new organization (Tran & Von Korflesh, 2016). Based on Dass (2018), GDP for Malaysia rose 6% continuously in three years, unemployment rate achieved 3.4% in 2017 especially unemployment rate for youth was reached 13.2%. This indicated that unemployment rate was not reduced GDP in Malaysia was increase. Many higher education institutions include KIAS started provided entrepreneurship as main course subject. This is due to entrepreneurship became guild line for fresh graduates to seek business foundation as career as recommended from Soraya et al (2015)

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