Authors : Norasmah binti Othman and Siti Hanisah Othman
Abstract: Entrepreneurship education provides enormous opportunities to university students to deepen their knowledge of entrepreneurship while providing valuable learning experiences. These programs develop the entrepreneurial mind-sets of students and the confidence to choose entrepreneurship as a career. Moreover, the formation of entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviours makes students more resilient and competitive in the business world and it is hoped that this will help solve the problem of unemployment among graduates in Malaysia. However, entrepreneurship education is still undervalued by most students. Thus, this study aims to examine student perceptions of entrepreneurship education. A total of 500 undergraduate, public university students participated in a questionnaire on entrepreneurship education. A stratified random sampling method was used in the data collection. The findings showed that student perceptions of entrepreneurship education in public universities are actually moderately positive, but further improvements are required to improve student awareness and understanding of entrepreneurship education.
Norasmah binti Othman and Siti Hanisah Othman, 2017. The Perceptions of Public University Students of Entrepreneurship Education in Malaysia. International Business Management, 11: 865-873.