The level of students' tendency toward entrepreneurship: a study on Academy of Contemporary Islamic Studies (ACIS) students MARA University Of Technology (UiTM) Shah Alam / Hayyie Mubarak Anwar Mubarak

Entrepreneurship is one of the potential areas to enhance the economy of a country in facing of global challenges. With regard to this, it is a requirement for all parties to ensure that this entrepreneurial field can continue to be applied among the students especially in the future to further develop the country's economy. This entrepreneurship can be applied through education, training and lifelong learning. Hence, this research study aims to analyze the level of students' tendency toward entrepreneurship among Academy of Contemporary Islamic Studies (ACIS) students at MARA University of Technology (UiTM) Shah Alam. The purpose of this study also to investigate the main factor that causes students interest in entrepreneurship and the main problem that cause students less interest in entrepreneurship. At the same time, this study also tries to determine the relationship between their main factor and main problem with their interest in entrepreneurship. The analysis of this research involved 100 respondents; all of them are from Academy of Contemporary Islamic Studies (ACIS) students. For the methods of analysis, Frequency Distribution, Descriptive Analysis, Reliability Test and Pearson Correlation Coefficient were adopted to analyze the results. The results show that majority of the respondents tend to venture into entrepreneurship. The main factor that causes students tend to venture into entrepreneurship is the motivation to succeed with a higher mean value than other factors. The study also shows that the main problem that causes students less interest to venture into entrepreneurship is no capital with a higher mean value than other problems. Lastly, this study also provides recommendation for few aspects base on the results of the finding and recommendations for future research students' tendency toward entrepreneurship.