Survey on student background and considerations regarding entrepreneurship and career choice 2021

The report is an updated version of three previous reports on “Survey on student background and considerations regarding entrepreneurship and career choice”, which presented the results from surveys among first year students at Aalborg University (AAU) carried out in October 2018, 2019, and 2020, respectively. The present report is based on the fourth round of the survey from 2021, examining AAU students’ backgrounds and considerations regarding entrepreneurship and career choice. In addition, this updated version includes references to the first surveys from 2018, 2019, and 2020 where it highlights relevant differences between and emerging patterns across the four 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, 2019, and 2020, the present 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.