From Classroom to Startup: How Educational Support Inspires Student Entrepreneurial Intentions

Entrepreneurship education is considered as an important thing recently because it can be one of the things that encourages someone to experience and internalize the knowledge and skills needed in the entrepreneurial journey. The research aimed to investigate the extent of the impact or influence that support for entrepreneurship education has on individuals' intentions to engage in entrepreneurship with moderation by various factors including attitude toward entrepreneurship, perceived social norms, perceived behavior control, entrepreneurial characteristics, perceived feasibility (self-efficacy). This research was carried out with the population were active students at Universitas Mikroskil who took entrepreneurship courses at the University as many as 428 people. Data processing in this research used Smart PLS. This research was also carried out in a series of stages starting from conducting a literature review, determining the population and sample, designing, and distributing research questionnaires, data processing to interpreting the results and drawing conclusions. And according to the research results, can be seen that the entrepreneurial education variable mediated by social valuation has no effect on entrepreneurial intention. This could happen because by having attended education related to entrepreneurship, respondents feel confident about themselves and are not really concerned with the perception of the surrounding environment regarding entrepreneurship. This also shows that respondents participating in entrepreneurship education does not mean that there will be an increase in the potential for approval from the surrounding environment regarding the respondent's entrepreneurial intentions.