Student background and considerations regarding entrepreneurship and career choice: Findings from a survey among first-year students at Aalborg University 2020

This report is an updated version of the two first reports on “Survey on student background and considerations regarding entrepreneurship and career choice”, which presented the results from surveys among first year students carried out in October 2018 and 2019, respectively. The present report is based on the third round of the survey from 2020, examining Aalborg University (AAU) students’ background and considerations regarding entrepreneurship and career choice. In addition, this updated version includes references to the first surveys from 2018 and 2019, where it highlights relevant differences between and emerging patterns across the three annual surveys.
The purpose of these reoccurring annual surveys is to facilitate the development and, in particular, the evaluation of the entrepreneurship initiatives at AAU. The surveys provide empirical data on students’ attitudes towards entrepreneurship and their previous entrepreneurship experience at the time of their enrolment at AAU. Together with the first surveys of 2018 and 2019, this survey can thus serve as a baseline for future assessments and evaluations of the effects of the entrepreneurship initiative and AAU training in general by observing potential changes in attitudes towards entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial behaviour during enrolment at AAU.