Factors influencing entrepreneurial intention among the students of Tribhuvan University

Abstract

Despite the growth of young promising entrepreneurs in the country, to the best of our knowledge, there have only been few studies regarding students' entrepreneurial intentions. This research mainly focuses on factors affecting entrepreneurial intention among the students of Tribhuvan University of Kirtipur Municipality. This study aims to examine the factors affecting entrepreneurial intention. The Theory of Reasoned Action and the Theory of Planned Behaviour are used in the study. In the study, four variables are taken as independent variables: Attitude towards behaviour, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control and entrepreneurship education whereas entrepreneurial intention is used as dependent variable. The research used questionnaire as an instrument of primary data collection and distributed to 124 students through Google form. The research design embraced in the study consists of descriptive, relational and casual research designs. Various tools used for data analysis were mean, median, mode, standard deviation, variance, correlation, regression etc. The findings revealed that Attitude towards behaviour, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control and entrepreneurship education have significant effect on students’ entrepreneurial intention.