Students’ Willingness to Become an Entrepreneur: A Survey of Non-Business Students of President University

Abstract

Entrepreneur has become an important thing to support the decreasing of unemployment. There are several factors that influencethe students' willingness to become an entrepreneur. The purpose of this research is to find outthe non-business student's willingness to become an entrepreneur in President University.The study observed students'individual desire, education, and family background which influencestudents' willingness to become an entrepreneur. Since education play an important role in motivating their students' willingness to become entrepreneur, therefore education institutions need to put in concern about the entrepreneurial education. This research is based on empirical data from 214 respondents. The respondents are President University students' who are in non-business major from batch 2009 until 2011 who have taken entrepreneurship subject. The data collected were analyzed by factor analysis and Cronbach's Alpha which is used to measure the reliability. The finding of this research shows the strong relation between individual desire and education to students' willingness to become an entrepreneur. While based on the research, the next factor after individual desire and education, which is family background, it only gives a little impact to their