DOI: 10.36347/sjebm.2021.v08i11.005

Pages: 437-441

This study was carried out in the South East and South South States of Nigeria. The main purpose of the study was to determine the strategies for improving the entrepreneurial competencies of business education students in Universities in the South East and South South States of Nigeria for job creation. The study utilized survey research design and was guided by one research question and one hypothesis. The population for the study comprised 109 Business Educators in Universities offering business education programme in South East and South South. The entire population was utilized, therefore no sample was drawn. The instrument for data collection was a self- structured questionnaire developed by the researcher on enhancing the entrepreneurial competencies of business education students in Universities in South East and South States of Nigeria. The instrument was validated by three experts from the Faculty of Education, Enugu State University of Science and Technology. The reliability co-efficient of the instrument yielded 0.73 using cronbach Alpha measure of internal consistency. The data collected was analyzed using mean and standard deviation while Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. Result obtained showed that extension education aimed at enhancing managerial skills of business education students such as Students Industrial work experience (SIWES) and also organizing seminars and workshops on effective time management and risk management could enhance the entrepreneurial competencies of business education students for job creation. Based on the findings of the study, the researcher recommended among others that extension education aimed at enhancing the managerial skills such as SIWES should be provided for business education students and also seminars and workshops should be organized for business education students on effective time and risk management.