Identifying the Attitude of Agricultural Students Toward Entrepreneurship

One of the main challenges of our society and especially the educated youth job creation in the country. In such circumstances, self-employment, entrepreneurship is one of the most important solutions. Entrepreneurship education can play an important role in changing the attitudes of students towards self-employment and entrepreneurship. In this research the attitude of students towards entrepreneurship Agriculture, based on Q methodology. This method takes advantage of both descriptive and analytical statistics and this feature makes Q method more comprehensive than other research methods. The population in this study included the students in agriculture faculty of Razi university of Kermanshah. Sampling is therefore purposefully and the selected people have special thought in regards to the subject of the research. During the research, to assess the reliability and validity, we use both triangulation and panel of experts. Based on the results of Q-factor analysis, the attitudes of the participants were classified into three groups. The first group define entrepreneurship as a risk-taking and creativity activity, second group define it as a higher social position and the third group believe that entrepreneurship makes them ready to take responsibility in the future.