Determinants of entrepreneurial intention among students-an empirical analysis Dr. Ponmani R.*, Dr. Annapoorani R.** *Professor, Department of Economics, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India **Professor, Department of Economics, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India Online published on 9 February, 2018. Abstract The role of entrepreneur is of fundamental importance to a country like India where the twin problems of poverty and unemployment coexist. The results showed that attitude and aptitude factors have the strong relationship with entrepreneurial intention and differences in sex, age, educational background vary in intention. The study was confined to final year postgraduate students of Arts, science and Commerce in the selected colleges. From the list of students, every alternate student was selected for the study. Among the variables, commitment, attitude and risk taking variables had a considerable influence in discriminating the respondents i.e whether the respondents has a propensity to be an entrepreneur or not. Personal control, self-esteem, desirability and age scores are less successful as predictors. In the second stage, the colleges were selected. Only colleges admitting both boys and girls, where all the three streams arts, science and commerce are being offered in the colleges and colleges which have successfully completed ten academic years were considered for the study. Thus, the final sample consists of 701 respondents from three streams of study. The study was related to 2013–2014. Top Keywords Entrepreneurship, Productivity, Distribution, Self-Dependence. Top |