The Development of Entrepreneurial Training: a Necessity in Iran’s Universities

Entrepreneurial training is formal and systematic education, aimed at utilizing information and knowledge exchange. Iran’s universities, in recent years, have created entrepreneurial training programs to build their students’ expertise in the entrepreneurship. The main intention of these programs is to encourage students to implement their learning in the workplace following graduation.

This study was implemented using post-event research methodology, with its key tool i.e. a questionnaire administered among Islamic Azad University students at the Lahijan, Iran campus. Data were collected in two steps, before and after an entrepreneurship program training during the last semester of the academic year 2011-12. Through the pair mean comparison test (t-test) and other analytical tools, our results demonstrate that variables such as level of significance for entrepreneurial intention (0.014), attitude toward behavior (0.005), subjective norms (0.032) and perceived behavioral control (0.009), all are less than 0.05. This reveals that entrepreneurship program is effective for entrepreneurial intention.