Entrepreneurship is getting wider attention recently with increasing globalization and also thesaturation of the job market due to the recent downturn in the various economies of the world.Malaysia is also placing more emphasize on entrepreneurial towards accelerating the economicgrowth. This study is meant to analyze to what extent the importance of entrepreneurship is wellperceived by secondary school students. A personally administered questionnaire survey wasexecuted to collect data from 1722 students represented by various schools from 7 districts inTerengganu, Malaysia. Their combinations were further represented in term of rural versus urbanarea. The study looked at the personal, finance, social, knowledge management, and schoolcurriculum serves as determinants of entrepreneurial intention. All the determinants were found to bepositively correlated with entrepreneurial intention among the secondary school students. Furtheranalysis on testing of differences demonstrated that in term of courses attended at school, levels ofeducation, and geographical location (urban versus rural) revealed the result of differences, whileanalysis on gender indicated of no differences between the groups towards intention to venture intoentrepreneurship.Keyword: Motivation, entrepreneurship, finance, social, knowledge management, schoolenvironment.