DETERMINANTS OF GRADUATE STUDENT WILLINGNESS TO PARTICIPATE IN THEIR OWN BUSINESS CASE OF WOLKITE UNIVERSITY

Abstract

Entrepreneur has become an important thing to support the decreasing of unemployment. There are several factors, which determine the graduate student willingness to become an entrepreneur. The purpose of this paper was to find the determinants of graduate student willingness to participate in their own business and the possible policy implication of the findings. The study observed attitude, sex, risk behavior, family business background, entrepreneurship course, and expectation of future success, family income, and, which determines graduate student willingness to become an entrepreneur. The study used logistic regression method to analyze and interpret the model. The primary data for this study was gathered through structured questionnaires distributed to Wolkite university graduate students. Stratified random sampling method was employed to select the 140 respondents out of 2215 graduate students and it also selected the students from the departments in the university proportionally. After collection of the data, it was analyzed by descriptive statistics and descriptive analysis. The limitation and policy recommendations are also discussed in the pape