LINKING ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION TO PERCEIVED ENTREPRENEURIAL SELF-EFFICACY OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS

Ajao Ganiyu RAHIM; Ignatius Ikechukwu UCHE; Ishola Olatunji OKIKIOLA

RAHIM, Ajao Ganiyu Department of Business Administration, University of Lagos, Lagos
UCHE Ignatius Ikechukwu Department of Business Administration, University of Lagos, Lagos
OKIKIOLA, Ishola Olatunji Department of Business Administration, Lagos State Polytechnic, Lagos, Nigeria

Keywords: Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, perceived entrepreneurial self-efficacy, tertiary institutions, undergraduate students

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between entrepreneurship education and perceived entrepreneurial self-efficacy of undergraduate students of University of Lagos. A correlational research design was adopted. Questionnaire was used to obtain response from participants who are undergraduate students of University of Lagos using disproportionate quota sampling procedure. Pearson correlation and regression analysis were used to test the formulated hypotheses. Results of the analysis revealed that all the dimensions of perceived entrepreneurial self-efficacy are significantly related to one another and entrepreneurship education. Further, the results revealed that entrepreneurship education is significantly associated with and predicted perceived entrepreneurial self-efficacy of undergraduate students. The study concluded that entrepreneurship education is vital in enhancing perceived entrepreneurial self-efficacy. On the basis of the findings, the study recommends that the curriculum and course contents of entrepreneurship education should be continually improved to facilitate learning by doing, so as to foster abilities and self-determination of students to succeed in entrepreneurship engagements.