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Interest in business as a career and entrepreneurship, more specifically, among freshmen college students has risen over time, a recent study reveals. Trends in Business Interest Among U.S. College Students was recently released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. The study bases its findings on data available through the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, which for 40 years has conducted the CIRP Freshman Survey, the most ubiquitous survey of college freshmen in the United States.

Among its findings, the study revealed that, through the 1970s and early to mid-1980s, the numbers of students that listed "business owner or proprietor" as their intended career of choice trended upward, peaking in 1987 at 3.7 percent. The category then dropped to a low of 2.2 percent in 1993 before beginning an upward climb to 3.6 percent in 2005. In 2008, 3.3 percent of students chose "business owner or proprietor" as their preferred career. Read full story:

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