The Impact of Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Education on Student’s Motivation and Skills: A Case Study of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan

Abstract

There is general agreement that attitudes towards the entrepreneurial activity, and its social function is determinant factors for university students to decide an entrepreneurial career. This study focuses on the impact of entrepreneurship education on student's motivation and skills towards enterprise education in Mardan. The study was conducted to find out the attitude, motivation, and skills of young student's towards starting a business. The aim of this study is to find out the impact of entrepreneurial education on students and their motivation and skills towards entrepreneurship in Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan. Data has been collected from a sample of 90 students of Management Sciences Department at AWKUM in Mardan through questionnaires. Data were collected only from Bachelors and Master's Program Students of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan. The result reveals that entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education is having an impact on student's motivation and skills. ARTICLE INFORMATION Response RateResponse rate of students were 72% i.e. 90 questioners were distributed among students in which 70 were returned, 13 were not returned while 7 were not included due to incomplete responses. Data CollectionSince this thesis is survey based, that is why essential source of data i.e. questionnaire were utilized to gather the information in simple random sampling. Data were gathered through a self-controlled questionnaire.