Investigation on Tendency and Mentality to Entrepreneurship of Students in Agricultural Field in Shiraz township

Entrepreneurship and employment of graduates of agriculture sector is the concern of planners in Iran. The present study was done to investigate characteristics of entrepreneurship of agricultural students. This research is applicable from objective point of view and descriptive- correlation for purpose of method، which is carried out based on survey approach. Statistical population of this study was included last semester students in agricultural fields of Shiraz universities in 2010-11 academic year، which were 1029 persons. Sample size was determined using Morgan and Kaaji table، which was equal to 327 persons. The main tool for data collection in this study was questionnaire in which، its validity determined by panel of experts and also its reliability was calculated by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient، which was equal to 73 percent. The results showed that ranks of characteristics of entrepreneurship of students in seven studied indices including willingness، risk taking، self-achievement need، need for independence، pro-activeness، control over destiny and ambiguity tolerance had decreasing trend. The study of entrepreneurship''s intent of students shows that the majority of students have low level of entrepreneurship''s intent.