International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences 2016, Vol. 6, No. 12 ISSN: 2222-6990 552 www.hrmars.com Determinants of the Entrepreneurship Trends of University Students (A Field Study for Gaziantep) Erkan ALSU Assist. Prof, Department of Business Administration, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep/Turkey Email: erkanalsu@gmail.com Murat KARAHAN Assist. Prof, Department of Business Administration, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep/Turkey Email: karahan@gantep.edu.tr Sadık GÖZEK, PhD Head of Gaziantep KOSGEB Mail: sadik.gozek@kosgeb.gov.tr DOI: 10.6007/IJARBSS/v6-i12/2518 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v6-i12/2518 Abstract Entrepreneurship tendency is a tendency that is influenced by an individual's environment, education, social environment, demographic characteristics. It is determined by these components’ relations between one another. This tendency shows difference even between the students who take entrepreneurship course and those who do not. In this study, 400 university students were asked various questions about entrepreneurship characteristics and trends. The study was conducted with university students residing in the province of Gaziantep. The aim is to identify the factors that cause the entrepreneurial tendency of the students and to reveal entrepreneurship traits. As a result of research, it has been revealed that there is a relationship between the lifestyle, gender, style of education, family income, level of education of the family and the entrepreneurship tendency. Comparing the students who took entrepreneurship course with those who did not, it turned out that there is no difference in terms of entrepreneurship tendency. Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Tendency, Students of Universities in the Gaziantep City 1. Introduction Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship concepts are defined with diverse and even conflicting definitions. The entrepreneurship is an ambitious business aiming to put forth the goods and services that are on the market and priced at the market, and to make profits to the owners, to continuously meet the needs of others (Karalar, 1998: 36).