Gulrukh Asghar2025-12-132025-12-132017https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/16190The main purpose of this research was to predict the entrepreneurial motivation of university students and the role of entrepreneurship education. Quantitative survey had conducted to get results of students who were categorized as Master of Business and Administration (MBA) and non-Master of Business and Administration (MBA) programs. The research showed that intrinsic and extrinsic factors were acting upon the students’ motivation to be an entrepreneur. The role of entrepreneurship education is very important for future entrepreneur to polish themselves in their field. The objectives are following: To assess students’ attitude towards jobs as a career selection; To assess the psychological factors those motivate students to start their own business; To find out the effect of demographics on student’s for selecting their career (field of study, working experience, social background); To find out the role of Entrepreneurial education on career selection of the students. Researcher used survey method for data collection. Questionnaire was consisted of 41 items with five pointsLikert type scale. Two government and three private university students participated in this study. Results were analyzed through SPSS. Independent t-test was used to check the difference between M.B.A program students’ motivation and non M.B.A program students’ motivation towards entrepreneurship. ANOVA was used to calculate the significance difference between students’ motivation and their different job description. Regression was used to find the relationship between Motivation of students and factors acting upon their motivation like entrepreneurship education role, social factors, risk tolerance, locus of control, and self-efficacy and opportunity cost, independence, need of achievement. Findings of this research show that there is no significant difference between M.B.A’s students and non M.B.A’s student’s motivation towards entrepreneurship. There is no significant difference between motivation of private institute’s students and motivation of government institute’s students towards entrepreneurship. There is no significant difference between student’s motivations who are full time employed and who are part time job holders, unemployed and self-employed students. There is significant relationship among factors influencing motivation of students towards entrepreneurship.Universities should introduce entrepreneurship education in all fields of studies. Higher education should focus on the students training during their studies. Student should get opportunities for practice as a live working experience. Further, researcher should focus on the social factors that motivate a student to be an entrepreneur and illustrate their outcomes. Key words: Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education role, motivation, psychological factors (risk tolerance, locus of control, and self-efficacy and opportunity cost, independence, need of achievement), social factor (job background, field of study, family background).enThesis