ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION OF STUDENTS OF THE FACULTY OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY, PETRA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY

An entrepreneur is a person who carries out entrepreneurial activities characterized by being clever or gifted in recognizing new products, determining new production methods, arranging operations management for new product procurement, marketing them, and managing the capital of their operations. The data was collected by conducting interviews with students majoring in FTI class of 2014 & 2015. The total population was 543, then took a sample of 141. Data processing was carried out by validity testing, reliability testing, and relationship testing. The motivation variables consist of Need for Achievement, Locus of Control, Self-Efficacy, Sense of Autonomy. The results obtained were that 19 respondents wanted to become an employee, 34 respondents wanted to become entrepreneurs, and 88 respondents wanted to become an employee after graduation and gradually become entrepreneurs. The motivations of becoming an entrepreneur were Self-Efficacy and the Need for Achievement. The batch of 2014 students wanted to continue their parents business, wanted to be free, had flexible time, and got more income, while the 2015 batch students prefered to be an employee as their career path.