A Study of The Factors Affecting UTHM Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention

Unemployment is an issue in most of the countries, both developing and developed. Students spend their available life, money, and efforts in education for getting a good job. However, when they finish their education, they spend much time looking for a job and sometimes stay unemployed. It is believed that one of the best solutions for this problem is to start a privet business. Thus, the objective of the study was to study the factors that affect UTHM students’ entrepreneur intention and find the relationship between these factors and the intension to become entrepreneurs. Four main variables were studied in this research namely, attitude, perceived behavior control, need for achievement, and family background. The study followed the quantitative method and collected the data via online and hard questionnaires. The Sample size of the study was 375 based on Morgan table. The data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 22.0. For achieving the objectives of the study many statistical test were conducted including reliability and normality test, mean analysis, and correlation & regression analyses. The findings of this study showed that all the variables were correlated with entrepreneurial intention. Moreover, the study also showed that all factors have a significant impact on entrepreneurial intention, except for the family background which was found to have no significant impact.