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Entrepreneurial engagement of Entrepreneurship Program graduates of St. Paul University Manila from 2008 to 2012

Arsenio Bignotia

 

Abstract:

The study was pursued to determine the entrepreneurial engagement of St. Paul University Manila Entrepreneurship graduates from Batches 2008 to 2012. The study‘s focal concern is to find out the number of entrepreneurial ventures of the graduates after their graduation. It also determined the challenges encountered by the graduates from launching entrepreneurial ventures and recommendations to improve the curriculum. To determine the entrepreneurial engagement, a complete enumeration sampling method was used. A researcher-constructed questionnaire was developed. The results revealed that majority of the entrepreneurship graduates were employed in different industries, and did not attempt to engage in entrepreneurial activity right after graduation. It was also found out that those who are presently engaged in entrepreneurial ventures established their business through selfventure and that being a graduate of the university entrepreneurship program was a factor in the decision to put up their own business. It revealed that lack of capital, good business location, and experience, and their family‘s decision to have them employed were the challenges encountered by the graduates preventing them from launching their own entrepreneurial ventures. The findings showed that business implementation and opportunities, accounting, and marketing management subjects are courses in the curriculum that helped the graduates become entrepreneurs. The findings also revealed that exposure to actual business operations and activities, increased attendance in trainings and seminars and setting-up a system for a simulated business operation, an alternative to thesis were recommended, by the graduates in order to improve the B.S. Entrepreneurship curriculum.