ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION ON ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION (A STUDY OF SELECTED TIITIARY INSTITUTIONS IN DELTA STATE)

Abstract

This paper is aimed at assessing the impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention. Intentions play a great role before launching an entrepreneurial venture, if one manage to establish the antecedent of entrepreneurship, it becomes easy to tell the level of entrepreneurship intention which also includes starting a business and growing a business, and if we know those entrepreneurial intentions and its level of existence among individuals we can predict whether enterprising students exist in university population. Survey research design method was employed, stratified sampling method as well as simple random sampling was used to select a total of 226 students from a population of five hundred and twenty (520) final year students in Business Administration in selected Tertiary institutions in Delta State. Linear regression analysis was employed for the analytical purpose to review the nature of statistical significance among variables. The findings show that Good Strategies influence Entrepreneurial Intentions among Students, and that entrepreneurship education can also increase student’s interest in entrepreneurship as a career. The study concludes that Entrepreneurship education can enhance an individual’s level of self-efficacy; entrepreneurial education is focused on developing youth with the passion and multiple skills. It aims to reduce the risk associated with entrepreneurship thought and guide the enterprise successfully. Entrepreneurship programmes significantly raised student’s intentions toward entrepreneurship by inspiring them to choose entrepreneurial career. Thus policy makers should strategize by making provision for start-up capital for students that prove to possess these entrepreneurial intentions so as to abate the adverse effects of unemployment in Nigeria.