The Relationship between Higher Education Graduates’ Attitudes towards Entrepreneurship

This study investigated attitudes of graduates of higher education institutions towards entrepreneurship. Population of this study included 200 students of 7 higher graduations of Torbat – Heydarieh in 2012. The research instrument was a questionnaire and validity and its reliability was tested by using Cronbach's alpha. The result indicates that significant and positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial skills, intrinsic motivation of the students, and concept of attractive entrepreneurship, efficacy, expectations, creativity, social norms approach and attitudes of the student toward entrepreneurship, whereas there was not a significant relation between fear as external variable attitudes of the student toward entrepreneurship. Main recommendations of this study include culture of entrepreneurship, support of entrepreneurs, and both internal and external motivation of the students and provide appropriate incentives and support their visions about the benefits of entrepreneurship.