The Effect of Entrepreneurship Courses on Entrepreneurship

Students’ Interest in Economic Faculty

Yayuk Dwi Prasetya

Postgraduate State University of Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia

Keywords: Entrepreneurship Course, Interest in Entrepreneurship.

Abstract: This research was to investigate entrepreneurship course influence simultaneously and partially on the

entrepreneurship interest student of Accounting Education Economics Faculty State University of Surabaya.

This research was a quantitative research by using ex-post facto method. This research population was student

of Economics Faculty State University of Surabaya amount to 153 students. While the sample amount to 67

students by using purposive sampling technique. Data collected by using test and questionnaires. Data analysis

technique used was multiple linear regression with SPSS version 22.0 for windows. Based on the research

results, this shows that entrepreneurial course simultaneously significant effect on the financial behavior

student Accounting Education Faculty of Economics State University of Surabaya.

1 INTRODUCTION

The globalization era is a global process marked by

the mixing of cultures from various countries to move

towards the realization of a global society with the

easy access increase. In fact the globalization era

causes something that happen in our country also

exists in other countries and vice versa. Therefore, if

incoming culture is properly absorbed it will have a

good impact on one's behavior. One is the increasing

number of younger rulers and many well-educated

unemployed from graduate students. Currently,

entrepreneurship development is a topic that is seeded

in industrial countries. The challenge faced in the

development of a country is to address the problem of

unemployment. From the data of National Planning

Agency (BAPPENAS) shows the unemployment rate

in Indonesia is still very high. In 2013 it was noted

that of the 118.19 million Indonesians who entered

the labor force, 7.39 million people (6.25%) were

unemployed. The high level of unemployment is

dominated by diploma and bachelor graduates with a

range of 614,479 people (Survei Angkatan Kerja

Nasional BPS Indonesia, 2013), whereas they are

expected to be the next generation to build this

country towards a more advanced one. These diploma

and undergraduate graduates are unlikely to become

unemployed if they have an entrepreneurial spirit.

Development of entrepreneurship through education

and training has also increased in several Indonesian

universities. The role of universities in motivating

young educated entrepreneurs is very important and

also growing the number of entrepreneurs in

Indonesia (Alma, 2010).

The growth number of entrepreneurs in Indonesia

over the past three years shows a rapid growth with

the rate of 0.18% in 2010, 0.56% in 2011 and in 2012

increased dramatically to 1.56% (Ministry of

Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises of

the Republic Indonesia Year 2012), but the growth

rate is still below the ideal rate of 2%. Based from the

education level, Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS)

data up to February 2013 shows that of 7,170,523

educated unemployed, 192,762 of them are university

graduates and 421,717 graduates of academy (Survei

Angkatan Kerja Nasional BPS Indonesia, 2013).

Several studies indicate that subjects of

entrepreneurship effect on entrepreneurship interest

like research done by Hanum (2015) showed that the

re-search results Of research results obtained that this

entrepreneurial learning through planting values,

understanding, soul, attitude and behaviour fosters

entrepreneurial thinking and characteristic and that it

supports their interests become self-employment. As

many as 91% of respondents feel it has potential as an

entrepreneur. Respondents who felt that being

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entrepreneur is a promising career choices as much as

87.3%. The majority of the students ' career choices

after graduation was working at the same time

building a business is as much as 82%.

In developed countries they generally have more

entrepreneurs than developing countries. This has a

positive impact by improving the country's economy,

and reducing the number of unemployed by providing

jobs. As stated by Heidjrahman Ranu P. that the

success of development achieved by the Japanese

state was supported by entrepreneurs who have

amounted to 2% medium level, small

entrepreneurship 20% of the population. This is the

key to Japan's development success. But still people

are less interested to pursue the entrepreneurial

profession. The cause of this lack of interest has a

negative background of society in the profession.

They do not want their children to pursue this field,

and try to distract children to become civil servants,

especially when their children have graduated college

degrees. Based on these data, it is clear to give an

ironic picture, where high levels of education do not

guarantee a person to get a job. Currently the

Indonesian government and the private sector are

working to in-crease the number of entrepreneurs

from the younger generation by organizing

competitions and providing entrepreneurial grants

through many programs, such as Entrepreneurship

Student Creativity Program, Entrepreneurship

Student Program, Entrepreneurial Student Mandiri

and others. This is an opportunity for students to

compete to obtain capital, which later will be used as

their initial capital in running a business.

Entrepreneurship course plays an important role in

fostering entrepreneurial interests that will be aimed

at providing practical experience to the students of

business actors, both large, medium, and small scale.

The entrepreneurship increasing interest in

Economics Faculty State University of Surabaya

towards the world of entrepreneurship is also growing

rapidly. This is evidenced by the number of students

who have their own business in addition to their

activities during the lecture, whether the business is

funded from government grants programs and self-

financing, such as: boutique business, salon, design,

culinary, photocopy/ printing, business in handicraft

bags, accessories and so on (Hermina, Novieyana and

Zain, 2013)

Based on those facts the researcher interested to

conduct experiment with title “The Effect of

Entrepreneurship Courses on Entrepreneurship

Students’ Interest in Economic Faculty”.

2 METHODS

This research is a quantitative research that presents

data in the form of numbers and statistical analysis

that aims to determine the influence of entrepreneur-

ship course to entrepreneurship interests of students

in Economics Faculty, State University of Surabaya.

According to Sugiyono (2013), Population is

generalisation area which based on object/subject that

have special quality and characteristic that depend on

the researcher to be studied then find out the

conclusion. The population in this study amounted to

153 students of accounting education batch 2012 and

2013. Based on the criteria, the sample amounted to

67 students. The sample technique used is purposive

sampling. The research design can be seen in the

following figure.

Figure 1. Research design.

Explanation:

X : entrepreneuship course (manipulation/

independent variable)

Y : entrepreneurship interest (dependent variable)

The collection data using tests and questionnaires

where tests to determine students' understanding of

entrepreneurship by practicing entrepreneurship and

entrepreneurship practices directly (Arikunto, 2013).

This study used multiple linear regression analysis

techniques with the help of SPSS version 22.0 for

windows.

3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Based on the test results simultaneously note that

entrepreneurship subject towards entrepreneurship

interest simultaneously indicated by the significance

value of F arithmetic of 0.000 which is less than 0.05

then Ha accepted and Ho rejected which means

entrepreneurship courses simultaneously have a

significant effect on students’ entrepreneurship

interest in the economics faculty Surabaya State

University.

While the partial test result of the influence of

variable of financial literacy (X) to student finance

behavior (Y) obtained result of t test value equal to

2,131 with significance value equal to 0,037 because

significance value <0,05 hence Ho refused and Ha

accepted. This shows that entrepreneurship courses

have a significant effect on students’ entrepreneur-

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ship interest in the Economics Faculty Surabaya State

University.

Tabel 1: Tabulasi deskripsi data responden variabel X.

3.1 The Effect of Entrepreneurship

Courses on Entrepreneurship

Interest

The results of this study indicate that the subject of

entrepreneurship simultaneously have a significant

effect on students’ entrepreneurship interest in the

Economics Faculty. Based on the results of research

that shows the significance value of F arithmetic of

0.000 that is less than 0.05 then Ha accepted and Ho

rejected. Therefore, the better the student’s under-

standing of entrepreneurship learning subjects hence

the higher the interest of entrepreneurship students.

As a highly educated student should not just

looking for job opportunities without going to

develop to create the job itself, the provision of a

lecture on entrepreneurship at least able to help the

government not to increase the number of

unemployed when students complete their education.

With the science of entrepreneurship is created mind-

set in the graduates of Higher Education to not only

oriented to seek work, but realize that there are other

interesting options besides seeking work, which is

creating employment. Over the same period, the

choice of creating jobs is proven to generate more

income than career choice, job search, or

employment. Of course it can be achieved if students

are equipped with knowledge, insight, skills, mind-

set, strategy, and tactics are qualified, namely smart

entrepreneurship (smart entrepreneurship), not just

hard work.

Based on theoretical studies, this study uses

learning theory as a theoretical basis on

entrepreneurship interest. Entrepreneurship courses

are an integrated learning concept designed

specifically for students to learn concepts, strategies,

tactics, and knowledge on how to start a business, as

well as change the mind-set and paradigm of

entrepreneurship. According Suryana (2006) the

influence of entrepreneurship education has been

considered as one important factor to grow and

develop passion, entrepreneurship and

entrepreneurship behavior among the younger

generation.

Entrepreneurship (entrepreneurship) is a

discipline that studies about values, abilities (ability),

and one's behavior in facing life's challenges and how

to obtain opportunities with various risks that may be

faced. Entrepreneurship is not a born-innate talent or

field experience affairs, but it can also be learned and

taught. Someone who has an entrepreneurial talent

can develop his talent through education.

Entrepreneurship must be a mandatory course that

takes precedence and serve as the main anchor for

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every graduate or department. For example,

entrepreneurship, technopreneur, creativepreneur,

and others. Learning theory is used to assist a person

in changing the minded from being an employee to a

businessman gained from learning outcomes during

his entrepreneurial course. Where in the change of

mind-set behavior and interest in entrepreneurship is

influenced by entrepreneurial learning.

The results of this study are supported by research

from Başçı and Alkan (2015) which states that

entrepreneurship education programs at Istanbul

University could influence the positive and

significant financial literacy on the decrease of

adherence. Odora (2015) also states that

entrepreneurship courses have a positive impact on

the students’ design skill in Africa to improve

products’ quality in accordance with market demand.

In addition, the research also strengthened from

Harkemaa and Popescu (2015) which states that

entrepreneurship education is important for the

community, especially women with the creativity and

their ideas to improve the quality of self and family.

4 CONCLUSIONS

Based on the result of the research, it can be

concluded as follows: (1) The subject of

entrepreneur-ship simultaneously has a significant

effect on students’ entrepreneurship interest in the

Economics Faculty Surabaya State University. (2)

Entrepreneur-ship courses have a significant effect

towards students’ entrepreneurship interest in the

Economics Faculty Surabaya State University.

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