Abstract
The purpose of this study is to present the findings of an exploratory research which was applied on alumni ofthe Faculty of Commercial Sciences in a foundation University in Istanbul in Turkey in spring semester of 2013.This university was established in 2001 and had 1500 alumni of its faculty of commercial sciences. It was notpossible to reach e-mails or contact information of 200 alumni. Thus, the questionnaire was sent to 1300 alumnivia e-mail and 332 usable questionnaires were sent back. The response rate is 26%. This study was conducted on332 alumni of the faculty of commercial sciences of the foundation university in Istanbul. The frequencydistribution analysis was applied to data. It is an exploratory research because it is trying to reveal the problem,the current situation and the ideas of aumni of this unversity. This paper gives an insight from a Turkishuniversity about entrepreneurial intentions of their students and alumni and contributions to them.
Highlights
It is important to track their alumni for universities
The most important way to keep track of alumni is to create loyalty and commitment to their universities while they are attending to their majors
The purpose of this study is to present the findings of the research which was applied on alumni of the Faculty of Commercial Sciences in a foundation University in Istanbul, Turkey
Summary
If universities keep track of their alumni, they can provide statistics to their prospective students about their alumni’s jobs and careers to market their programs. They can market graduate, Phd and certificate programs to their alumni. It is difficult to keep the track of their alumni for universities They need to have a specialized office and officers to keep in touch with their alumni for a long time. 32.4% of alumni strongly agree and 24.4% of them agree that courses, presentations and training related to entrepreneurs leaded them to entrepreneurship. 35.2% of alumni strongly agree and 18,9% of them agree that books, web sites, movies related to entrepreneurs leaded them to entrepreneurship. 43.3% of alumni strongly agree and 18.9% of them agree that field trips to new ventures and gathering information about them leaded them to entrepreneurship
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