Author(s): Asaad Hameed Al-ali
The main purpose of this empirical study is to understand the factors that may affect student’s Entrepreneurial Intention (EI) by using EIs self-administered Questionnaire (EIQ) to a convenient sample, 245 local and international undergraduate students at the first ranked private university in Jordan and the tenth Arab by the number of international students according to the QS (2020) report. The other purpose is to detect if there are differences in student’s EI from different colleges, considering that most previous research studies emphasized the EI for business students, supported with lack of empirical evidence on the variables that may influence the individual’s decision to start a venture, in addition to the traditional question, aspiring entrepreneurs do really have different demographic characteristics from those non-entrepreneurs. The findings show that entrepreneurial competencies, perceived behavioral control, personal intention and self-efficiency have significant statistical effect on EI. However, no significant statistical impact of entrepreneurial government support; social support and surprisingly entrepreneurial education on EI. According to Independent sample (t) test, there were statistically significant differences between Jordanian and non-Jordanian in EI in favor of Jordanian students, also, according to One-way Anova, the results indicate that there are statistically significant differences in some demographic variables in favor of business students and age group (22-24) years. All these results were by means of using SPSS version 25 and Smart PLS 3 to conduct Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The author calls on both the Jordanian government and universities to educate and train students the basics to think and act as entrepreneurs so that upon graduation they can start up their own business, and to adapt non-standardized curriculum and special teaching strategies for entrepreneurship courses to different students in different colleges.