Education of Entrepreneurship and Activities of Entrepreneurship to Students’ Interests

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the effect of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial activities on students' entrepreneurial interests partially or simultaneously. The population in this study were students of the Economic Education Study Program STKIP Muhammadiyah Sampit who programmed entrepreneurship courses in the academic year 2019/2020 was amount 42 people and the sampling technique used saturated samples. The collected data was using multiple linear regression analysis methods. This study used a questionnaire as a data collection tool. The results showed that there was an influence of the independent variables both partially and simultaneously on the dependent variable, namely entrepreneurship education, influencing student interest in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial activity influencing student interest in entrepreneurship, and simultaneously entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial activity influencing student interest in entrepreneurship with the magnitude of influence of the independent variables (entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial activity) of 62.7% while the remaining 37.3% is influenced by other variables not examined. Therefore, suggestions given so that entrepreneurial interest can continue to increase include entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial activities continue to be promoted not only included in the compulsory curriculum in lectures at STKIP Muhammadiyah Sampit will only be used by Entrepreneurship Students' Learning Unit, so that entrepreneurial knowledge and activities become more developed and there is an interest in becoming an entrepreneur.