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FACTORS INFLUENCING ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS AMONG GRADUATES OF NIGERIAN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS
ABSTRACT: One of weakness of the Nigeria’s education system is its failure to prepare graduates for selfemployment and business entrepreneurship. Thus, owing to the persistence mass unemployment, low productivity, high inflation and widespread poverty in Nigeria, the government introduced entrepreneurship programmes to promote skills acquisition, facilitate the spirit of creativity, self-reliance and self-independence. However, only a small percentage of graduates become entrepreneurs after graduation. This study therefore examined the factors influencing entrepreneurial intentions among graduates of Nigerian tertiary institutions. Purposive sampling technique was employed to ensure that the 307 graduates selected for the study were of different age groups, gender, courses studied and ethnic groups. The generated data were analysed using mean, standard deviation and analysis of variance. It was found that the most influential factor is creativity and that entrepreneurial intentions increased with increase in age. To increase graduates’ entrepreneurial intentions, centers for entrepreneurship development in Nigerian tertiary institutions should adopt entrepreneurial learning as entrepreneurship development method. Also, students should be mixed during entrepreneurship programmes with recourse to their level of creativity.
Keywords: Entrepreneurial intention, Tertiary institution graduates, Influencing factors, Entrepreneurship programmes.