ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION: AN APPLICATION OF ALLIED HEALTH STUDENTS' ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS AND THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR

According to the findings of this survey, which included a cohort of undergraduate allied health students at a regional institution, most of them plan to launch their own company after graduation. This emphasizes the necessity of offering EE. Nonetheless, students favored EE's inclusion at the postgraduate level, giving academic institutions a preliminary sense of demand. According to our research, 48.9% of the intention variation of allied health students enrolled in EE could be predicted by the dimensions of attitude, subjective norms, and PBC. The TPB can be a good model to predict the intention and behavior of allied health students in performing EE, according to the study's findings. Given that the most important factor in determining students' intention to pursue entrepreneurship was attitude  

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