Abstract—The recent instability in economy was found to be influencing the situation in Malaysia whether directly or indirectly. Taking that into consideration, the government needs to find the best approach to balance its citizen’s socio-economic strata level urgently. Through education platform is among the efforts planned and acted upon for the purpose of balancing the effects of the influence, through the exposure of social entrepreneurial activity towards youth especially those in higher institution level. Armed with knowledge and skills that they gained, with the support by entrepreneurial culture and environment while in campus; indirectly, the students will lean more on making social entrepreneurship as a career option when they graduate. Following the issues of marketability and workability of current graduates that are becoming dire, research involving how far the willingness of student to create social innovation that contribute to the society without focusing solely on personal gain is relevant enough to be conducted. With that, this research is conducted with the purpose of identifying the level of entrepreneurial intention and social entrepreneurship among higher institution students in Malaysia. Stratified random sampling involves 355 undergraduate students from five public universities had been made as research respondents and data were collected through surveys. The data was then analyzed descriptively using min score and standard deviation. The study found that the entrepreneurial intention of higher education students are on moderate level, however it is the contrary for social entrepreneurship activities, where it was shown on a high level. This means that while the students only have moderate level of willingness to be a social entrepreneur, they are very committed to created social innovation through the social entrepreneurship activities conducted. The implication from this study can be contributed towards the higher institution authorities in prediction the tendency of student in becoming social entrepreneurs. Thus, the opportunities and facilities for realizing the courses related to social entrepreneurship must be created expansively so that the vision of creating as many social entrepreneurs as possible can be achieved. Keywords—Entrepreneurial intention, higher education institutions (HEIs), social entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurial activity, gender. Radin Siti Aishah Radin A Rahman (lecturer) and Norasmah Othman (Associate Professor) are with the Faculty of Education, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor Malaysia (e-mail: radin@ukm.edu.my, lin@ukm.edu.my). Zaidatol Akmaliah Lope Pihie is a Professor with the Faculty of Education Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43300 Serdang, Selangor (e-mail: zalp@upm.edu.my). Hariyaty Ab. Wahid is a senior lecturer with the Faculty of Management and Economics, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, 35900 Tg. Malim, Perak, Malaysia (e-mail: hariyaty@fpe.upsi.edu.my). I. INTRODUCTION OCIAL entrepreneurship has the ability to be agents to fortify economy, environment, social, politics and education at local and global level. The current global economic instability is seen to affect conditions in Malaysia directly and indirectly. This phenomenon affects the efficacy of planned development of a country. Initiatives to explore social entrepreneurship indirectly have contributed to the heightening of living standards of those who are marginalized without taking profit into consideration. Social entrepreneurial activities conducted clearly affects the longevity of better community life especially for third world countries. Malaysia is not left behind in propagating this activity especially to youth who are interested to be entrepreneurs. Early emphasis at tertiary level is believed conducive to stimulate their minds and attitudes to be more creative in product creation or services which is able to benefit and enhance the lives of those who are marginalized. The government is actively seeking the best approach from the root level to balance the longevity of socio-economic status of its citizens, beginning with the New Economic Policy (NEP) until the National Transformational Policy and the recent 2016 Budget. Through the establishment of the social entrepreneurial unit under the Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre (MaGIC), social entrepreneurs can take advantage of easy financing, skill and discussion services which are offered. Apart from that, the cooperation of Government Linked Corporation (GLC) and other private firms are involved in performing their corporate social responsibility (CSR) to high-impact social entrepreneurial projects. Social entrepreneurial conduct is traceable since the establishment of cooperation and Ikhtiar Project in 1986 in Malaysia. Nevertheless, the development of this activity is still low as stated in the Social Entrepreneurial Report by the General Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) in 2009. In light of this, the Ministry of Education (MOE) Malaysia under the High Education Sector has emphasized the issue of instilling social entrepreneurship in the education plan at the community college level, public and private of higher education institutions. Allocation is also given to students by the management of each institute of higher education in early efforts to propagate the culture of social entrepreneurship in Malaysia. Hence, the aspiration of students in higher education institutions to become social entrepreneurs is able to influence their career choice once they have graduated. Entrepreneurial Intention and Social Entrepreneurship among Students in Malaysian Higher Education Radin Siti Aishah Radin A Rahman, Norasmah Othman, Zaidatol Akmaliah Lope Pihie, Hariyaty Ab. Wahid S World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering Vol:10, No:1, 2016 175 International Scholarly and Scientific Research & Innovation 10(1) 2016 scholar.waset.org/1999.10/10003437 International Science Index, Economics and Management Engineering Vol:10, No:1, 2016 waset.org/Publication/10003437