EDUCATIONAL BARRIERS FOR DEVELOPING STUDENTS' ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT (CASE STUDY: ZANJAN UNIVERSITY)

The main purpose of this study was to identify educational barriers for the development of students‟ entrepreneurial spirit. This study was descriptive and quantitative research and included the use of factor analysis as the main data processing method. The total population of all students studying in Zanjan University that 185 students were selected using stratified random sampling. A questionnaire was designed as the tool for collecting data. After data collection, SPSS/16 was used in the statistical analysis. The results of factor analysis showed that that the five factors namely educational recourses, motivation in training, teaching methods, foresight, and hardware resources could explain 55.9% of the variation of barriers to the development of entrepreneurial spirit in students.