EXTENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION INFLUENCES THE ENTREPRNEURIAL INTENTIONS OF BUSINESS EDUCATION UNDERGRADUATES IN UNIVERSITIES IN ANAMBRA STATE
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This study determined the extent entrepreneurship education influences the entrepreneurial intentions of business education undergraduates in universities in Anambra State. Two research questions guided the study and two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The design of the study was descriptive survey. Population of the study was 619 (226 male and 393 female) business education undergraduates in the three universities in Anambra State offering the programme. The stratified random sampling and simple random sampling techniques were used to select a sample size of 243 (male and female) students. An adapted Entrepreneurial Intention Questionnaire (EIQ) developed by Linan and Chen (2009) was used to collect data for the study. The questionnaire was a 5-point scale containing 37 items in four clusters which was validated by experts in the field of Business Education and Measurement and Evaluation. The reliability of the instrument was determined using the Cronbach Alpha co-efficient which yielded values of 0.97, 0.80, 0.71, and 0.75 respectively for the four clusters and overall value of 0.80. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze data to answer the research questions and determine the cohesiveness or otherwise of respondents’ mean ratings. The z-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that entrepreneurship education influenced attitude and perceived behavioural control of business education undergraduates towards becoming entrepreneurs to a great extent. Gender did not significantly influence the respondents’ mean ratings in all the contents covered. It was concluded that business education undergraduates in universities in Anambra State would benefit from effectively delivered entrepreneurship education programme as it would improve their entrepreneurial intention. Based on these findings, it was recommended among others that university authorities should assist business education undergraduates that indicate intention to become entrepreneurs while in school and after graduation through incubator programmes.
Key Words: Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurial Intentions, Business Education
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