Entrepreneurship Education Development among Students of Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria

Abstract

: The study examines the impact of entrepreneurship education development (EED) with high growth of expectations on tertiary students as determinant of entrepreneurial aspiration and their effects on prosperity. EED is the most important business or commercial course available in all tertiary institutions in the country. Sampling design used 99 respondents and descriptive statistics and multiple regressions were the analytical tools used to analyze the data collected. The result of the study showed that the respondent 60% were males, majority found to be single within age group of 18-27 years with were National Diploma students. The result also revealed that there is significance relationship between self-reliant, student views (independent variables) and educational level (dependent variable), this is due to the fact that the model exhibited R2 of 0.78. In this study however, it demonstrates p value less than 0.05 thus the model of the research is statistically significant.