An empirical study of computer science majors’ intentions in Vietnamese higher education

The study aimed to explore Vietnamese computer science (CS) majors' intentions of entering computer science professions in the future and to examine the factors influencing the intentions applying the theory of planned behavior as the framework. There are questionnaire surveys of 725 Vietnamese CS majors and were analyzed using path analysis by SPSS Statistics 17.0.1. We found that the CS majors' intentions of entering CS professions were moderately strong. The CS majors’ intentions of entering CS professions were directly influenced by the endeavor towards the expectation, subjective norm, and perceived expectation control. In addition, CS majors’ intentions of entering CS professions were also indirectly influenced by expectation desire *outcome endeavor evaluation vis‐à‐vis the effect on endeavor, by normative desire *motivation to comply vis‐à‐vis the effect on subjective norm, and by control desire * perceived facilitation vis‐à‐vis the effect on perceived expectation control.