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The level of entrepreneurial intentions of business students had the overall mean rating of 4.05, described as high. The rating of being ready to do anything to be an entrepreneur was high (4.04). Professional goal to be an entrepreneur was high (3.99). Making every effort to start and run own business was high (4.11). Determining to create a business venture in the future was high (4.07). To support this outcome, the business students’ desires to engage in entrepreneurial endeavors is merely a behavior, which is intentionally planned. In this vein, competing models have been reported in the literature in an attempt to understand entrepreneurial intention phenomenon with Shapero's model of the entrepreneurial event taking the lead followed by Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behavior. The former model emphasized perceived desirability, perceived feasibility and propensity to act while the latter model introduced personal attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavior although conceptually both models’ proposed constructs are somewhat similar or identical. These constructs are widely used in the literature to understand the entrepreneurial intention in various contexts. However, viewing it from an academic institution’s perspective flagged that entrepreneurial education is equally important in activating entrepreneurial intention among students who are nascent entrepreneurs of the future. Therefore, this study is an attempt to suggest a conceptual framework linking entrepreneurial tendency driven by the Theory of Planned Behavior and entrepreneurial intention. Additionally, entrepreneurial education is proposed as a mediator in understanding the relationship between entrepreneurial tendency and entrepreneurial intention. This research also offers relevant supporting literature and direction for future empirical investigation in order to contextualize this study (Baskaran et al. 2019). Presented in table3 is the overall mean of attitude towards becoming entrepreneur, perceived behavioral control, subjective norms and entrepreneurial intention of business students. Attitude towards becoming entrepreneur and entrepreneurial intention has a the same mean 4.05, followed by perceived behavioral control 3.66, then subjective norms is 3.61 mean and described as a high. To support this outcome, the entrepreneurial intention, personal attitude, perceived behavioral control and subjective norms plays an important role in the decision of business students about venturing into business and be an entrepreneur in the future after they graduate. Research confirms that intentions play an important role in the decision to start a new firm. The findings indicate that although they hold a positive attitude towards entrepreneurship, both U.S. and Turkish students show a low level of entrepreneurial intention. Confirming prior work, the findings also indicate that there is a statistically significant relationship among personality attributes of optimism, innovativeness, risk-taking propensity and entrepreneurial intention. In a new line of inquiry, experiential activities known to promote creative thinking—exposure to other cultures, new experiences and art events—were found to contribute to perceived innovativeness. Both U.S. and Turkish students expressed a need for more training and education on entrepreneurship to start a new business. As U.S. students perceived a high level of risk associated with entrepreneurship, Turkish students evaluated the economic and political conditions of home country quite unfavorably to start own business (Ozaralli & Riven burgh, 2016). Table 3: Over-All total mean of attitude towards becoming an entrepreneur, perceived behavioral control, subjective norms and entrepreneurial intention of business students Indicators Overall Mean Description Attitude towards becoming entrepreneur 4.05 High Perceived behavioral control 3.66 High Subjective norms 3.61 High Entrepreneurial intention 4.05 High OVERALL TOTAL MEAN 3.84 High b) Significant relationship of the variables Presented in table 4.1 is the significant relationship between subjective norms and personal attitude towards becoming entrepreneur and perceived behavioural control. Base on the result of attitude towards becoming entrepreneur and subjective norms obtained r-value 0.11, which is interpreted as very weak positive linear relationship. It obtained p-value higher than 0.05 level, thus failed to reject the null hypothesis (Ho). This denotes that there is significant relationship between the two variables. The perceived behavioral control and subjective norms obtained r-value 0.54, interpreted as a Moderate linear relationship and obtained p-value lower than 0.05 level, thus, the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. This means that there is no significant relationship between the two variables. Entrepreneurial Intention of Business Students in Davao Del Sur State College 30 Global Journal of Management and Business Research Volume XXII Issue VII Version I Year 2022 ( ) A © 2022 Global Journals