Entrepreneurship Skills Acquisition and Standard 0f Living 0f Graduate Students in Kogi State, Nigeria

Kudirat Ibrahim Adebisi

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the entrepreneurial skills acquired by graduate students and their subsequent standard of living in Kogi State. The study had two objectives and two research questions. The study employed descriptive design with questionnaire as the main data collection tool. The sample size for the study was 345 students in tertiary institutions in Kogi state. Five 5 Likert Scale structured questionnaire was used for data collection. The instrument was validated by experts. A reliability of 0.73 was obtained after the pilot study. Descriptive statistics of mean was used for answering the research questions. The findings indicated satisfactory entrepreneurship skills acquired by graduate students but with fairly satisfactory standard of living. The study concluded that graduate students have entrepreneurship skills but fear to venture into entrepreneurial activities because of lack of financial resources and experiences in their business of interest. The study recommended that students should do internships and volunteer in companies so as to sharpen their entrepreneurship skills and acquire the courage and experience to start a business venture.


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