The Entrepreneurial Attitudes of Higher Education Students

An increasing of the number of entrepreneurs in Indonesia is required to support economic growth. Therefore, universities in Indonesia have concerned with their important roles in creating entrepreneur trough several ways, for example, they design the entrepreneurship as a compulsory subject in the curriculum. The student's entrepreneurial attitude is an important factor in creating a good entrepreneur. This study examines the entrepreneurial attitude of higher education students based on their demographic characteristics, such as ethnicity, gender, education, faculty and the family business experience. This study is a survey by using the questionnaire. The respondent of this research consists of 100 students who have passed the entrepreneurship subject from Universitas Negeri Padang. The results show that the entrepreneurial attitude has similar mean value for gender, education, faculty and the family business experience factor. Moreover, we found that the ethnicity and faculty have a slightly different mean value. However, based on the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), only faculty's factor that has a significantly difference of the entrepreneurial attitude in ten percent level of significance. Finally, some limitations and further research have been discussed.