<![CDATA[Entrepreneurship education is an important component of vocational education because it is expected to equip students with knowledge and encourage them to consider entrepreneurship as a career option. However, preliminary observations at SMK Merah Putih Bekasi indicated that students tended to view entrepreneurship knowledge merely as a subject requirement, while their interest in entrepreneurship remained relatively low. This study aimed to determine the effect of entrepreneurship knowledge on students’ entrepreneurial interest at SMK Merah Putih Bekasi. This research employed a quantitative approach. The population consisted of 152 Grade X students, with 110 students selected as the sample. Data were collected through a knowledge test and an entrepreneurial interest questionnaire and analyzed using simple linear regression. The findings showed that entrepreneurship knowledge had a positive and significant effect on students’ entrepreneurial interest. The hypothesis test obtained a t-value of 2.461, which was higher than the t-table value of 1.984, with a significance value of 0.015. The coefficient of determination was 0.053, indicating that entrepreneurship knowledge contributed 5.3% to the variation in entrepreneurial interest, while the remaining 94.7% was influenced by other factors. These findings imply that strengthening entrepreneurship learning may contribute to increasing students’ entrepreneurial interest, although other supporting factors should also be considered.]]>
