Influence of Entrepreneurship Education and Mindset on Entrepreneurial Intention among Business Education Students in Public Universities, Southwest, Nigeria
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2025-12
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Lead City University, Ibadan
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Despite significant investment in entrepreneurship programmes, students’ entrepreneurial intentions appear to be persistently low. While individual elements of entrepreneurship education and mindset have been examined, there is insufficient integrated research linking these factors to the low entrepreneurial intentions among students which created a gap in literature that this study aimed to fill. This study investigated the influence of entrepreneurship education, and mindset on entrepreneurial intention among public universities’ business education students in Southwest, Nigeria. It was underpinned by the theory of planned behaviour, learning-by-doing entrepreneurial theory and implicit theory of intelligence. A descriptive survey research design was employed with a population of 952, 400 level students of Business Education in both State and Federal universities in Southwestern states. Total enumeration sampling technique was utilized. One research instrument – Business Education Students Entrepreneurial Intention Questionnaire (BESEIQ) ( ∝ = 0.890) was used for data collection. Three research questions were answered and four hypotheses were tested at 0.05 significant level, using descriptive statistics of frequency, mean and standard deviation and multiple regression analysis. Findings revealed that the level of entrepreneurial intention was moderate (Grand Mean = 2.64); level of entrepreneurship education was low (Grand Mean = 2.47); level of entrepreneurial mindset was high (Grand Mean = 3.07); the combined influence of the independent variables had a significant influence on the dependent variable (Adj. R2 =0.377) and (F(2,873)=265.615; p<0.05); there was a significant gender difference in entrepreneurial intention and mindset among Business Education students in public universities in Southwest, Nigeria (p < 0.05). The study concluded that the entrepreneurship education programme provided for undergraduates of Business Education students in public universities, Southwest Nigeria, was more theoretical than practical, with limited access to resources and inadequate support for developing real- world business skills. It was therefore recommended among others, that universities revise and implement entrepreneurship curriculum to deliver practical and hands-on experiences to equip students with industry sought-after expertise.
Keywords: Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurial Mindset, Entrepreneurial Intention, Gender.
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Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurial Mindset, Entrepreneurial Intention, Gender.
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kate Turabian