The approach of this study is to know the potential of senior students in PUP to be
a successful entrepreneur. The study concentrated specifically on the role of some personality
characteristics such as risk-taking propensity, tolerance for ambiguity, internal locus of control,
innovativeness and independence and motivational factors such as love for money, desire for
security and desire for status rather than the differences in the contextual factors. The study
reveals that gender, family business experience and education level are significant factors in
The study shows that the respondents perceived entrepreneurs mostly with their
innate characteristics. However, most of them thought that entrepreneurial traits should be
nurtured by external factors. The literature provides some useful insights into the impact of
contextual factors. In an early work, Scott and Tworney (1988) analyzed the ambitions of
university students and the results of the study identified parental influence and work experience
as significant factors. Lee et al. (2005) investigated the differences in the attitudes of university
students towards venture creation, the study revealed that each country should provide a
contexts. More students are pursuing part-time education, and a growing number of institutions
are offering distance courses and programs. As the number of distance-delivered programs
increase, for-profit and not-for-profit educational institutions are competing for students who
choose to pursue their educational goals via distance (Meyen, Aust, Gauch, Hinton, Isaacson,
Smith, & Tee, 2002). Further, the pressure to recruit and retain learners also increases.
Institutions that provide learners with the goods and services they want and need in order to be
successful may have a competitive advantage. Therefore, it is important for institutions,
students. Theory of Planned Behavior provides a general frame work to analyzed the
entrepreneurial intention of a person.( Ajzen and Fishbein, 1980). According to Bird (1988),
intentionally can be define as a state of mind directing a person’s attention, experience and action
towards a specific goal or a path to achieve something. Need for achievement appears to be an
important characteristic of both the entrepreneurial personality and a trait distance students need
in order to be successful.
students in PUP depends on said factors which affects their potential to become successful
entrepreneurs someday. People with inner desires and will to become entrepreneur for
sustainability.