Abstract

Due to high rate of unemployment among agricultural graduates, improving students entrepreneurial capacity plays an important role in solving mentioned problem and also would improve economic condition of the society. The purpose of this cause- correlational study was to investigate factors related to M.Sc. students entrepreneurship capacity. The statistical population consisted of 482 M.Sc. agricultural students at the University of Zanjan, from those 200 students were selected based on Krejcie and Morgan sampling table and applying randomized stratified sampling method. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire which its validity was verified by a panel of experts. A pilot study was conducted to determine the reliability of the research instrument, and calculated ordinal coefficient theta was at the appropriate level (CR= 0.85). The finding revealed that majority of students (76.5%) had an average level of entrepreneurship capacity. Analysis of data revealed that there is a positive significant relationship between students entrepreneurship capacity and their B.Sc. GPA, M.Sc. GPA and their interest toward agricultural major. Mann Whitney test applied revealed that students with job occupation had higher entrepreneurship capacity in comparison with students of no job occupation. Also, male students had a high entrepreneurship capacity in comparison with female students. Ordinal regression analysis showed that the interest towards major explained 24.2 percent of probability of the entrepreneurship capacity variance.