FEWER than one in 10 of Shanghai’s students plan to set up their own business after graduating from university, according to a study released yesterday.

In the poll by the Shanghai Statistics Bureau, just 593, or 29 percent, of 2,071 final-year students said they would “like to” run their own business, but only 8.4 percent said they actually planned to do so.

Young people at vocational colleges showed more interest in becoming small-business owners than their peers at prestigious universities, the report said.