This study investigates the effect of entrepreneurship education on the Malaysian community college students' inclination towards entrepreneurship. It is built on the previous study by Ooi (2008) which examined the university students' inclination towards entrepreneurship. A sample consisting of 235 students were drawn from four community colleges located in the Malaysian northern region. The students were in the final year of their diploma studies in various disciplines. A survey questionnaire was employed to elicit responses concerning their entrepreneurship inclination and characteristics. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse respondents' characteristics and Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (SEM-PLS) was employed in determining the relationship among the variables of the study. The results of the study indicated that 51 per cent of the community college students would consider commencing a business as their future vocation, whilst 33 per cent stated that they are probably to start a new business venture after completion of their studies. This could be attributed to the effort taken by the community colleges in promoting entrepreneurship among students. The entrepreneurial factors: role models and the role played by the community colleges in promoting entrepreneurship showed a statistically significant positive influence on community college students' decision to pursue an entrepreneurial career. The Partial Least Square -Multi Group Analysis (PLS-MGA) employed for moderating the personal background variables indicated no significant differences on path coefficients between the various groups across gender and working experience. An exception was the effect of role models on entrepreneurial inclination, which was significantly higher with those participants without working experience. Recommendations and future research direction are delivered in relation to the findings of this study.

Entrepreneurship is becoming increasingly important in today’s world due to its effectiveness and applicability in a country’s economic development. In this regards, many developed and developing countries are investing maximum resources and efforts to promote entrepreneurship. To achieve the goal, policy makers as well as economic stakeholders are playing their roles in promoting entrepreneurship. This includes educational institutions emphasising on motivating fresh graduates to choose entrepreneurship as their future career. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to highlight the factors that resist and encourage fresh graduates to choose and set up their own business. This paper categorises four factors namely demographic, motivational, challenges of obstacles and government support. This paper proposes that motivational factors such as family security, independence, intrinsic and extrinsic rewards influence fresh graduates’ decision to choose and set up a new business. With reference to challenges, this paper highlights that a lack of finance, complicated processes involved in setting up a business, high rate of taxes and duties, poor business infrastructure resist fresh graduates to dabble into entrepreneurial activities. This paper also points out that demographic factors like gender, previous experience and family background do influence fresh graduates’ decision to choose and set up a new business. In addition, this paper explains that government support in terms of providing business assistances like microfinance schemes, business-friendly system, low rate of taxes and duties. Easy business-related rules and regulations also encourage fresh graduates to choose and set up a new business. Finally, the paper proposes few propositions based on the previous literature and invites any researcher to empirically test them in order to further strengthen the entrepreneurship literature.