Unemployment is one of the main social and economic problems that many
countries face nowadays. One strategic way to overcome this problem is
by fostering entrepreneurship spirit especially for unemployment
graduates. Entrepreneurship is becoming an alternative Job for students
after they graduate. This is because entrepreneurship offers major
benefits, such as setting up one’s own business and the possibility of
having significant financial rewards than working for others.
Entrepreneurship is then offered by many universities. This research
applies the theory of planned behavior (TPB) by incorporating attitude
toward success as an antecedent variable of the attitude to examine
students’ intention to become an entrepreneur. The objective of this
research is to compare entrepreneurship intention between business
students and non-business students. A self-administered questionnaire
was used to collect data for this study. Questionnaires were distributed
to respondents by applying the drop-off/pick-up method. A number of 294
by questionnaires were used in the analysis. Data were analyzed by
using structural equation modeling. Two out of four hypotheses were
confirmed. These hypotheses are the relationship between the attitude
toward becoming an entrepreneur and the intention to try becoming an
entrepreneur, and the relationship perceived behavioral control and
intention to try becoming an entrepreneur. This paper also provides a
discussion and offers directions for future research.