Authors : Kartini Mat Rashid, Norudin Mansor, Nurul Syuhada Baharuddin and Zuraida Mohamad
Abstract: The importance of entrepreneurship in generating economic growth had been widely acknowledged throughout the world. In the case of Malaysia, about 85% of the nation’s income derives from entrepreneurship activities. For the purpose of sustaining entrepreneurship career, various initiatives had been done by the ministry of higher education in promoting to embark into entrepreneurship. Therefore, this study attempts to investigate student’s intention towards entrepreneurship as a career among students in institution of higher learning. Data for this study was collected through self-administrated questionnaires and distributed through convenient sampling methods. A total of 300 samples of the study specifically involved students of UiTM (T). The finding of this study found that the social environment, curriculum factor and knowledge management are significant with entrepreneurial intention and the result for all independent variables shows positive relationship with dependent variable.
Kartini Mat Rashid, Norudin Mansor, Nurul Syuhada Baharuddin and Zuraida Mohamad, 2016. Entrepreneurship as a Career: How Significant does Students Intention?. The Social Sciences, 11: 7473-7477.