Dwi Wulandari, Bagus Shandy Narmaditya, Wahjoedi, Sugeng Hadi Utomo, Mit Witjaksono, Prih Hardinto, Magistyo P. Priambodo
This study aims to understand the reasons students choose a community economy concentration in the Development Economics Program Universitas Negeri Malang, so that the Department of Development Economics will provide insight to policy makers, especially in the SME sector and educators in the sector to attract more students to choose this concentration and create a lot of new entrepreneurs. Not many colleges focus on community economy in Indonesia. Community economy often only have a study center or becoming an elective courses in many universities. Many universities directly address entrepreneurs, whereas community economy will include more topics which will also included entrepreneurship especially entrepreneurs in the SME sector. In Universitas Negeri Malang, majoring in development economics there are community economy concentration and the courses are community economy, micro finance institutions, community economy development policy, management of community economy, community economy in practice, seminar on community economy. We found that students choose community economy because of these factors: student's success in previous lecture which is regional economy, their beliefs that their career will be related to many people, their opportunity to be creative, their advancement opportunities, a good long term income and parents influence. © Serials Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Faculty of Economics, Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia
