Investigate the competencies required for sustainable entrepreneurship development in agricultural higher education

Today this has been accepted that entrepreneurship education success is depended on reinforcement of student's entrepreneurial self-efficacy beliefs. In other words entrepreneurial self-efficacy beliefs are precursor for business startup behavior or business development, particularly for reduction of nascent entrepreneur’s fear of failure. The main aim of Empirical research was assessment the composed structures of Entrepreneurial self- efficacy among agricultural students. This Empirical research is applied research which its data was gathered through survey method. Non experimental research as well as descriptive – correlation approach is best description for research type. Senior and junior undergraduate agricultural students composed research population (N=730). 120 convenient questionnaires were gathered as result of Cochran formula. Validity was treated through face validity, convergence and construct validity and reliability was considered by Cronbach’s alpha and composite reliability amount. Structural Equation Modeling using confirmatory factor analysis was dominant method which shows for sustainable entrepreneurship in higher education, seven dimensions have central role. Systems thinking competence (STC), Embracing diversity and interdisciplinarity (EDI), Foresighted thinking (FTC), Normative competence (NC), Action competence (AC), Interpersonal competence (IC) and Strategic management competence (SMC), confirmed as dominant competencies that must be considered in entrepreneurship education. It seems concentrate on these competencies for in agricultural education with aim to fostering nascent entrepreneur, could result on sustainable entrepreneurship.