This paper focuses on the extent to which undergraduate students at universities might wish to create their own companies on graduation. The statistical procedures adopted in the processing of the data collected from a sample of 450 undergraduates in order to better understand student attitudes regarding their paths from university education into the labour market – with particular regard to the possibility of their establishing their own enterprise. Gender, risk, factors related to profession/employment choice and academic training were found to signicantly affect students' interest in and motivation for starting their own business.