Impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intentions of business and engineering students in Ethiopia

TLDR: In this paper, the authors examined the entrepreneurial intentions of undergraduate university students in Ethiopia by making a comparative analysis among different groups of students and found that male management students have higher personal attraction towards entrepreneurial career, subjective norms, self-efficacy, entrepreneurial intention, need for achievement, locus of control, and instrumental readiness.

Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the entrepreneurial intentions of undergraduate university students in Ethiopia by making a comparative analysis among different groups of students.Design/methodology/approach – A total of 156 students completed entrepreneurship intention questionnaire. The questionnaire has seven parts extracting information about personal attraction, subjective norm, self‐efficacy, entrepreneurial intention, need for achievement, locus of control, and instrumental readiness. The respondents were asked to state their agreement/disagreement on statements on a seven‐point Likert type scale.Findings – The result identified that students who had undergone entrepreneurship education (business management student in this case) tend to have better entrepreneurial intention than those who had not taken entrepreneurship course (engineering students). Also, it was observed that male management students have higher personal attraction towards entrepreneurial career, subjective norms,...