ABSTRACT

Abstract

This study assesses entrepreneurial intention of the 400 level Public Administration students in Ahmadu Bello University (A.B.U) Zaria with the evidence from theory of planned behaviour by Ajzen. (1991) Survey research design was employed in the study, which is cross sectional in nature. Primary data was collected through self-administered questionnaire to the respondents. The data was collected from a sample of 198 drawn from a population of 247 final year students using simple random sampling technique. The study used Descriptive and inferential statistics to analyse the data collected for the study with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20. Multiple regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses formulated for the study. The study found out attitudes towards entrepreneurship with Beta value of 0.264, t value= 4.400 and a p-value of 0.000 which is less than 5% level of significance and perceived behavioural control with a with Beta value=0.589, t= 9.885 and a p-value of 0.000 which is less than 5% level of significance have significant and positive effect on student entrepreneurial intentions of university students towards entrepreneurship while subjective norms with a Beta value= 0.022, t value=0.385 and P=0.701 have insignificant but positive effect on student entrepreneurial intentions of university students towards entrepreneurship.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship Education; Entrepreneurial Intention; Theory of Planned Behavior.