Abstract :
With the thought patterns of many students and parents, after college, they have to work as employees
in well-known companies and become permanent employees, so that there are problems that arise,
namely the increasing number of unemployed people filled with college graduates, one of the efforts
made by the government by entering Entrepreneurship courses into the education curriculum,
especially education at the university level. The Entrepreneurship course is intended to broaden
students' knowledge of the world of entrepreneurship and motivate them to be directly involved in
the world of entrepreneurs as strong young entrepreneurs, so that they can contribute to improving
the Indonesian economy. In addition, entrepreneurship is considered an important determinant in
rapid economic growth, employment and job creation and positive social development in a country.
This study aims to develop an empirical model that examines whether the proactive personality of
students and supporters of higher education influences their entrepreneurial intentions. This
research is an explanatory research, carried out descriptively or through descriptions that describe
and explain the research subject. The approach in this study follows the steps of quantitative research
work. Primary data sourced directly from the object of the research, both observation data, and data
from structure interviews with respondents using a questionnaire. The population and sample in this
study were all students who had taken the Entrepreneurship course in Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Ekonomi
(STIE) and Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Manajemen (STIM) in Medan, which began to stand above 2000.
The study was conducted using SPSS version 24.0 software where the results of this study showed
that the support of Higher Education and Proactive Personality had a positive and significant effect
on the intention of entrepreneurship in private tertiary institutions in Medan City. All constructs
forming each variable can explain its existence to latent variables.
Keyword :
entrepreneurship, university support, proactive personality, and entrepreneurial intention