Author(s): Herman Setyawan
The current era places entrepreneurship as a solution to the nation's economic development. Hence, students from various fields of study, including education management study programs, need to get an education about entrepreneurship to broaden their perspectives. This study aims to analyze the factors that influence the perceptions of students of the education management study program towards entrepreneurship. This study uses a quantitative design. The data was obtained from a survey of 183 students of the education management study program at Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (UNY) from various college intakes and various levels: undergraduate, master, and doctoral degrees. Descriptive analysis was employed to evaluate the degree of each variable after the collection of data, while to see the effect between variables, the SmartPLS application was utilized to apply the PLS-SEM method, and it was found that certain elements had an impact on the perceptions of student of education study programs towards entrepreneurship, such as entrepreneurial education, prior entrepreneurial experience, supportive entrepreneurial environment, entrepreneurial motivation, and entrepreneurial risk tolerance. Although all effects are positive, not all have a significant effect, which indicates that not all factors can be generalized.