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entrepreneur is a promising career choices as much as
87.3%. The majority of the students ' career choices
after graduation was working at the same time
building a business is as much as 82%.
In developed countries they generally have more
entrepreneurs than developing countries. This has a
positive impact by improving the country's economy,
and reducing the number of unemployed by providing
jobs. As stated by Heidjrahman Ranu P. that the
success of development achieved by the Japanese
state was supported by entrepreneurs who have
amounted to 2% medium level, small
entrepreneurship 20% of the population. This is the
key to Japan's development success. But still people
are less interested to pursue the entrepreneurial
profession. The cause of this lack of interest has a
negative background of society in the profession.
They do not want their children to pursue this field,
and try to distract children to become civil servants,
especially when their children have graduated college
degrees. Based on these data, it is clear to give an
ironic picture, where high levels of education do not
guarantee a person to get a job. Currently the
Indonesian government and the private sector are
working to in-crease the number of entrepreneurs
from the younger generation by organizing
competitions and providing entrepreneurial grants
through many programs, such as Entrepreneurship
Student Creativity Program, Entrepreneurship
Student Program, Entrepreneurial Student Mandiri
and others. This is an opportunity for students to
compete to obtain capital, which later will be used as
their initial capital in running a business.
Entrepreneurship course plays an important role in
fostering entrepreneurial interests that will be aimed
at providing practical experience to the students of
business actors, both large, medium, and small scale.
The entrepreneurship increasing interest in
Economics Faculty State University of Surabaya
towards the world of entrepreneurship is also growing
rapidly. This is evidenced by the number of students
who have their own business in addition to their
activities during the lecture, whether the business is
funded from government grants programs and self-
financing, such as: boutique business, salon, design,
culinary, photocopy/ printing, business in handicraft
bags, accessories and so on (Hermina, Novieyana and
Zain, 2013)
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Based on those facts the researcher interested to
conduct experiment with title “The Effect of
Entrepreneurship Courses on Entrepreneurship
Students’ Interest in Economic Faculty”.
2 METHODS
This research is a quantitative research that presents
data in the form of numbers and statistical analysis
that aims to determine the influence of entrepreneur-
ship course to entrepreneurship interests of students
in Economics Faculty, State University of Surabaya.
According to Sugiyono (2013), Population is
generalisation area which based on object/subject that
have special quality and characteristic that depend on
the researcher to be studied then find out the
conclusion. The population in this study amounted to
153 students of accounting education batch 2012 and
2013. Based on the criteria, the sample amounted to
67 students. The sample technique used is purposive
sampling. The research design can be seen in the
following figure.
Figure 1. Research design.
Explanation:
X : entrepreneuship course (manipulation/
independent variable)
Y : entrepreneurship interest (dependent variable)
The collection data using tests and questionnaires
where tests to determine students' understanding of
entrepreneurship by practicing entrepreneurship and
entrepreneurship practices directly (Arikunto, 2013).
This study used multiple linear regression analysis
techniques with the help of SPSS version 22.0 for
windows.
3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Based on the test results simultaneously note that
entrepreneurship subject towards entrepreneurship
interest simultaneously indicated by the significance
value of F arithmetic of 0.000 which is less than 0.05
then Ha accepted and Ho rejected which means
entrepreneurship courses simultaneously have a
significant effect on students’ entrepreneurship
interest in the economics faculty Surabaya State
University.
While the partial test result of the influence of
variable of financial literacy (X) to student finance
behavior (Y) obtained result of t test value equal to
2,131 with significance value equal to 0,037 because
significance value <0,05 hence Ho refused and Ha
accepted. This shows that entrepreneurship courses
have a significant effect on students’ entrepreneur-
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