Abstract

This study explored the effect of entrepreneurship education on enterprise creation among undergraduates in southwestern Nigeria. The study sample consisted of all final year undergraduate students' that must have taken entrepreneurship education as a course or a course under General Studies Unit (GST) in nine universities (Federal, State and Private) in Lagos, Ogun and Oyo states. The population was 80,740 and a sample of 3,160 final year undergraduate students. The data was collected using a structured questionnaire (r=0.86). Data were analysed using multivariate regression. It was found that there existed a significant relationship between entrepreneurship education (CP, TM, and EIA) and enterprise creation of university undergraduate students' in South-West of Nigeria; F = 4938.134; R² = 0.828, and Är² = 0.82. The analysis showed that (3;3078) curriculum practices (CP) significantly predicted enterprise creation of university undergraduate students (â = 0.568); teaching methodologies significantly predicted enterprise creation of university undergraduate students' (â = 0.348), accounting for 82.8% of the variance. It was recommended that government/policy makers should provide a better environment for facilitating new enterprise creation. Also, the universities should encourage students to participate in mandatory industrial attachment with reputable firms that can support the students in enterprise/venture creation, among others.