A Survey on Entrepreneurship Capabilities of Students in Payame Noor University of Arak

The main purpose of this study is to investigate entrepreneurship capabilities (independence, internal control, progress motivation, risk-taking and creativity) of students of Payame Noor University of Arak and specifying the influence of university education on reinforcing such capabilities. In this study, a descriptive method was used. For gathering data a researcher-made questionnaire was used. Reliability coefficient of the questionnaire was 0.86. In order to carry out the project 260 students of Payame Noor University of Arak in the academic year of 1386-87 were selected by random classical sampling method. Two levels of inferential and descriptive statistics by the use of SPSS software were performed to analyse the data. The results showed that: entrepreneurship capabilities of students in the independence, internal control, progress motivation and creativity were more than the mean value, but in the case of risk-taking the relevant scores were less than mean value. University education was not found to be effective in reinforcing entrepreneurship capabilities of the students. Effectiveness of entrepreneurship centred education in reinforcing entrepreneurship capabilities such as independence, internal control, progress motivation, risk-taking was refused, but this hypothesis in the case of creativity was accepted.