To undertake or not? That is the question! Analysis of the entrepreneurial intention of university students from a federal teaching institution

Entrepreneurship has been leveraged in educational institutions whose purpose is to encourage entrepreneurial practices with students. Theoretical models such as the Entrepreneurial Intention have been commonly applied with university students in the search to investigate their entrepreneurial behaviour and their entrepreneurial action at the university level. That said, the present work aimed to analyze of the Entrepreneurial Intent of the students of the higher courses of the Federal Institute of Piaui, contemplating the Bachelor of Administration and Technologist in Fashion Design of the Piripiri campus from the Theoretical Model of Planned Behavior (TCP) developed by Ajzen (1991) and validated in Brazil by Hecke (2011). We used a methodology of quantitative approach and field research as a technical procedure using the tools excel, google forms and SPSS for investigation. The results showed that students tend to undertake. The constructs Attitudes, Subjective Norms, Perceived Behavioral Control and Entrepreneurial Intention, had significant averages. The factor analysis revealed that the model has explanatory potential, and the structural equation model showed positive relations of Attitude and Behavior on Entrepreneurial Intention. It is concluded that hypotheses H1 and H3 presented were confirmed and rejected the H2 hypothesis. The Entrepreneurial Intention appears positively among the students, denoting the importance of the discipline of entrepreneurship and the perspective of the universities' entrepreneurial practice.