THE INFLUENCE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION TOWARDS ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION MEDIATED BY ATTITUDE, SUBJECTIVE NORMS, AND PERCEIVED BEHAVIORAL CONTROL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITAS CIPUTRA SURABAYA

Abstract

One of the major problems in Indonesia is inadequate number of workers with the number of job positions available. Hence, it is betterfor people with productive age, especiallythe one that is educated, to have an orientation or intention to create job, rather than being a job seeker. Entrepreneurship education is considerably believed to be a prominent element informing one’s entrepreneurial intention. Nevertheless, many studies show few consistent results on the direct impact of entrepreneurship education on individual's entrepreneurial intention. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine the influence of entrepreneurship education toward entrepreneurial intention with Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) approachas a mediator. This theory clarified that there are three primary forces that influence an individual's intentions, which are attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control. The approach to this research is quantitative method, where the data collected will be analysed statistically using PLS-SEM. The researcher selected the population of 992 businessmanagement students at Universitas Ciputra Surabaya, who are registered in the academic year of 2017 and 2018. By using purposive sampling method, the total samples that successfullycollected are 305 samples. The result of this study concludes that the direct relationship betweenentrepreneurship education to entrepreneurial intention shows no significant effect. Nevertheless, entrepreneurship education can significantly influence entrepreneurial intentionif it is fully mediated by attitude toward entrepreneurship, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control.