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ENTREPRENEURSHIP COURSE’S EFFECTS ON ISLAMIC STATE UNIVERSITY OF
NORTH SUMATERA’S MANAGEMENT STUDENTS’ ENTREPRENEURSHIP SPIRIT
Wildan Izzaty
1
, Zuhrinal M. Nawawi
2
Faculty of Islamic Economy and Business, Islamic State University of North Sumatera, Indonesia
1
wildhanizzathy3@gmail.com
2
zuhrinal.nawawi@uinsu.ac.id
Abstract
The biggest challenge that must be faced for a country is to reduce unemployment in the country. Various efforts
are made by the government to reduce unemployment, efforts in the form of community empowerment, providing
more knowledge of entrepreneurship, and instilling an entrepreneurial spirit in each individual. The purpose of
this study is to find out how influential entrepreneurial subjects have on students' entrepreneurial interest in
management majors. The research method conducted in the form of a purposive sampling method with a data
collection tool is a questionnaire distributed to 80 respondents. The results can be found in this study that the
entrepreneurship courses taught in the 7th semester in the management study program are very influential on the
interest of students to become an entrepreneur judging from intrinsic factors and extrinsic factors.
Keywords: entrepreneurship; entrepreneurs; students’ interest
This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
INTRODUCTION
For a country, the biggest challenge to be faced is reducing unemployment in that country
(Sundari, 2019). Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) in Indonesia alone
unemployment reached 9.1 million people as of August 2021. In the situation of Covid-19 as it is
today unemployment becomes increasing because of the number of industries or companies that
experience economic decline that requires the industry or company to reduce its employees or
workers (Komara, Setiawan, & Kurniawan, 2020). It also coincides with the number of diploma
and undergraduate graduates every year who after that still have difficulty finding employment.
Various efforts are made by the government to reduce unemployment in Indonesia. These
efforts are in the form of community empowerment carried out by Kementrian Pendidikan and
Kekulturan through the renewal of the education curriculum by adding entrepreneurship subjects
or courses with the aim of instilling an entrepreneurial spirit in each individual (Utama, 2020).
Especially for students in college is expected by studying entrepreneurship can grow its
entrepreneurial spirit and create jobs and can reduce unemployment (Juliana, 2019).
Entrepreneurial education will encourage students and students to start recognizing and
opening a business or entrepreneurship (Prihantoro & Hadi, 2016). The mindset that is always
oriented to be an employee is improved to be oriented to find employees (Ekosiswoyo, 2016).
Entrepreneurial education is included in the learning curriculum that requires students to take
entrepreneurship courses taken in the seventh semester. The course is applied in the form of
entrepreneurship theory and practice. Therefore, the author is interested in researching more about
the influence of entrepreneurship subjects on student entrepreneurship interests.
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is a series of activities carried out by an entrepreneur in an effort to generate
and add value to certain products or services in order to gain commercial benefits (Rapii, 2019;
Soegoto, 2013). While entrepreneurship is an effort to create business activities or business
activities on the basis of their own will or establish a business with one's own will and ability
(Indriyatni, 2013). The benefits of entrepreneurship are:
1) Provide opportunity and freedom to handle one's own destiny
2) Give you the opportunity to make a change
3) Give yourself the opportunity to reach your potential
4) Have the opportunity to achieve the most optimal profit possible
5) Have the opportunity to play an active role in society and gain recognition for their efforts
6) Have the opportunity to do something you like and grow a sense of pleasure in doing it.
Entrepreneurial Interest
Interest is a feeling of interest related to something without command (Astriya & Kuntoro,
2015). Entrepreneurship interest is an ability that a person has to venture in meeting the needs of
life, advancing business, or creating a business with the power that is in him (Putri, 2017). It can
be concluded that the interest in entrepreneurship arises because of the encouragement or desire to
be independent to meet the needs of life without worrying about the risks that will occur because
it always learns from a failure.
METHOD
This research method is carried out by survey method using questionnaires as the main
instrument in collecting data primarily. The questionnaire consists of open-ended questions, in
which respondents are asked to answer questions asked without any choice, and closed questions,
i.e. respondents can only choose from the available answer options.
Data collection is carried out for a month in November 2021. The analysis unit is conducted
at the individual level. This research was conducted by distributing questionnaires to respondents
through social networks, namely to students who have participated in entrepreneurial learning in
the department of UINSU management. From these requirements, 80 respondents were obtained
in the seventh-semester management department.
RESULT AND DISCUSSION
From the dissemination of questionnaires to seventh-semester management students, the
results of the answers to the questions asked to 80 respondents, while the results obtained from
questionnaire answers:
1) Support from family and community towards the interest in becoming an entrepreneur.
There are 27 respondents who strongly agree that support from family and community is
very influential to become an entrepreneur. Furthermore, there were 34 respondents who
agreed, and 19 other respondents answered disapproval.
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2) The condition of business opportunities in supporting the interest to become an
entrepreneur. As a result, 13 respondents expressed great agreement, then 52 respondents
expressed agreement, and 15 other respondents disagreed with the condition of business
opportunities to support an entrepreneur's interest.
3) Entrepreneurship courses support the interest of being an entrepreneur. The results: 44
respondents answered strongly agreed, 27 respondents answered in agreement, and 9
answered disapprovingly.
4) The entrepreneur's income is unlimited so that it can support the interest of becoming an
entrepreneur. As a result, 48 respondents strongly agreed, 26 respondents agreed, and 6
other respondents disagreed with entrepreneurship can have unlimited income.
5) The pleasure of studying entrepreneurship courses supports my interest in becoming an
entrepreneur. The results: 29 respondents strongly agreed, 40 respondents agreed, and 11
respondents disagreed.
Table 1. The Ability to Be an Entrepreneur
Information
Number of Respondents
Yes
66
No
14
Sum
80
Table 2. Self-Employment Becomes the Career Choice that Men Promised
Information
Number of respondents
Yes
74
No
6
Sum
80
Table 3. Career Options After Graduating From College
No.
Career Choices
Number of respondents
1.
Working in a Company
18
2.
State Officer
26
3.
Own Efforts
28
4.
Continuing the Family's Business
8
Sum
80
From the answers to questionnaires 1-5, it can be known that respondents recognize family
support to be a strong incentive to form one's interests into self-employment. These interests can
be formed if there is a positive influence that is given directly or indirectly to the interest. In
addition, the surrounding environment is also influential for someone to cause entrepreneurship
interest, missal in the environment where someone lives many young entrepreneurs who open a
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culinary business with minimal but profitable capital, certainly cause someone's interest to try
because the small capital can be profitable.
From the questionnaire question to 2 respondents also agreed that the condition of business
opportunities can support a person's interest in becoming an entrepreneur. Without realizing it,
often someone wants to try because they see an opportunity, such as the demand for a product or
service directly to him, and or also because of the community's need for the product. Actually, in
the environment where we live alone, there are many opportunities that can provide benefits, but
these opportunities can be obtained in people who have the ability and strong desire to succeed.
In addition to the answer to questionnaire questions, 3 respondents admitted that
entrepreneurship courses are influential and can support someone to become an entrepreneur. What
has been taught in the entrepreneurship subjects can be basic knowledge for students who want to
become an entrepreneur, as well as basic practices that are done to become an entrepreneur. This
shows that respondents admitted that in addition to getting knowledge from entrepreneurial
subjects, the learning process can also instill the values of understanding and behavior that fosters
thinking about entrepreneurship and supports one's interest in becoming an entrepreneur. In the
process of learning entrepreneurship lectures, students are also taught in practice how to become
an entrepreneur. They go through the process of making products / producing services, offering
them to consumers, and trying to sell the products/services they offer, this indirectly gives rise to
their personal experience and can feel the joys and sorrows of entrepreneurship. The firsthand
experience they experience becomes interesting support to become an entrepreneur.
From the answer to questionnaire question no. 4, respondents argued that unlimited income
attracted someone's interest in becoming an entrepreneur. Income is the income earned by a person
either in the form of money or goods. Presidential Decree No. 4 of 1995 explained that
entrepreneurship is the behavior or ability of a person in handling businesses whose activities lead
to efforts to find or earn greater income. The amount of income received by entrepreneurs depends
on the results of work or efforts made. The desire to earn an unlimited income is what can cause
his interest in entrepreneurship.
Then from the respondent's answer to the questionnaire question at no. 5, it can be seen that
most respondents strongly agree and agree that a sense of pleasure in entrepreneurship courses can
support their interest in becoming entrepreneurs. Because it cannot be denied that a person who
has a sense of pleasure in a job then he will be willing to do it without any compulsion from others.
Feelings are a state of one's heart or psychiatric event, whether feeling happy or unhappy.
Table 1 states that 83% of respondents have the ability to become an entrepreneur. And
another 17% of respondents think they do not have the ability to become an entrepreneur.
Furthermore, in table 2, 93% of respondents think that being an entrepreneur is a career choice that
promises greater profits, while 7% of other respondents believe that being an entrepreneur is not a
career that promises greater profits. Because there are still many people who think that
entrepreneurs are identic with large capital, difficult to develop and some people think should be
employees or employees in private companies only because they have a fixed income. Lastly, for
table 3, it appears that 55% of respondents choose to work in companies and become public
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servants on the grounds of a fixed salary every month, then there are 35% of respondents prefer to
open their own business with the reason to be able to practice the knowledge gained when studying
entrepreneurship, and there are 10% of other respondents who choose to continue their family
business on the grounds of helping parents. It is seen from the table that the number of respondents
who choose to open their own business because they want to benefit and want to jump directly to
practice the knowledge obtained while in college.
CONCLUSION
Based on the results of research conducted, the author can conclude that entrepreneurship
courses are very influential for students, especially in management programs to practice directly
what is obtained during lectures and pay attention to the opportunities that are around to be further
practiced directly by students. In addition, the encouragement of the family and the surrounding
environment can foster a person's interest in entrepreneurship. And viewed from the table with the
number of respondents who choose after graduating from college will open their own business
because entrepreneurship can generate promising income.
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