Factors Affecting Graduate Students Attitude Towards Entrepreneurship (The Case Of Yeka Industrial And Technology College

Abstract

Entrepreneurship has been widely embraced as a strategic way to increasing youth economic engagement. The purpose of this study aims at seeking to identify whether entrepreneurial Attitude exist among college students. The study looked at the graduate class of 2019/20 undergraduate students' of Yeka Industrial and Technology college‟s perceptions about entrepreneurial attitude. The study proposes different factors that could affect the students‟ Attitude towards entrepreneurship like the student‟s gender, social factor, entrepreneurial education, Government, Family, Personal attitude towards entrepreneurship. The study's sample size is 68 students, with 44 men and 23 women. Both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies were used in the study. Questionnaires were used to collect primary data by using an paper form by considering social distancing to apply Covid – 19 protocols, and secondary data was gathered from books, journals, previous research works, the university‟s website and the internet. To choose a proportional number of samples from the study area, simple random selection was performed. According to the findings, the college should build the student‟s belief in their capabilities to create and execute job and being independent and the other thing is attitudes to be self-employed to the students‟ perceptions which could play a vital role to boost students' confidence in performing entrepreneurial responsibilities and activities