Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intention among business graduating students of public universities in Ethiopia

Abstract

Intentions are the single best predictor of any planned behavior, including entrepreneurship.
Understanding the antecedents of intentions increases our understanding of the intended behavior. This
article set out to investigates the intention towards entrepreneurship among university students in Ethiopia
public universities. Specifically, it aims to examine the effect of entrepreneurship education, family
background, family occupation, subjective norms and risk and opportunity on entrepreneurial intentions.
Survey study using questionnaire was used to collect data from 350 undergraduate students pursuing in
regular program, Ethiopian public universities. To test the hypothesis logistic regression model was used.
Accordingly, the data gathered from questionnaires demonstrates that Family education, subjective norms
and risk &opportunity variables are found to have statistically significant effect on students’ intention
towards entrepreneurship. But the remaining variables found to be insignificant.