ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION OF UNDERGRADS IN UNIVERSITIES: THE ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND GENDER

*Timinepere Ogele Court & Binaebi Kingsley Ogbolo
Department of Business Administration, University of Africa, Toru-Orua, Nigeria
*Correspondence Email: timi2k2002@gmail.com; timinepere.court@uat.edu.ng

Abstract:

The study explored the relationship between entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial intention of undergraduate students in universities. An analytic descriptive survey design was employed while a sample of 240 undergrads was selected through a stratified sampling procedure from the study population of 534 students. A structured questionnaire designed on a 5-point Likert scale of strongly agree to strongly disagree was the means of data collection. The instrument was structured and pretested to ascertain the content validity and reliability of the instrument through Cronbach alpha coefficient of 0.76 and 0.85 for entrepreneurial education and orientation. The data were collected through the distribution of the pieces of questionnaire to undergraduate students and were collected. The data were analyzed using hierarchical regression analysis and independent samples t-test. The results indicated that practical and theoretical entrepreneurship education had a positive effect on entrepreneurial intention of undergraduates of universities. We concluded that entrepreneurship education is a key aspect in driving the intention of students towards entrepreneurship. Further, we recommended that both theoretical and practical entrepreneurship classes should be employed in imparting entrepreneurship curriculum contents and knowledge to students.

Keywords: Practical classes, Theoretical classes, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial intention, Entrepreneurial education