Abstract

Nigeria is currently going through a period of economic stagnation. There is unemployment among the educated and illiterate workforce in large numbers. Tertiary institutions reacted to this challenge by teaching students entrepreneurship courses at the undergraduate level. The entrepreneurship courses offered aimed at creating small business owners so as to reduce the dependence on white collar jobs. This study examined the role of entrepreneurship education in small business startups among the past students of University of Ibadan (UI) who took the course on Basic Entrepreneurship Education (ETR 301). The course aimed to fill the gap between entrepreneurship education and ability to be an entrepreneur. Former University of Ibadan students who had taken the course on entrepreneurship were surveyed using Google Forms. The results showed that entrepreneurship education as provided through the course ETR 301 has significant influence on entrepreneurial mindset and entrepreneurial skills of university students, therefore, should be sustained.

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