An Assessment of Students Entrepreneurial Intentions in Tertiary Institution: A Case of Kano State Polytechnic, Nigeria

The aim of the study is to examine students’ entrepreneurial intentions. A survey was conducted at School of Management Studies, Kano State Polytechnic. The population of the study composed of final year HND students in various managerial or administrative programmes. The study selected 312 samples using purposive sampling techniques. The study used theory of planned behavior and Shapero’s model to explain entrepreneurial intentions of the student as used in other study. Regression method was used to examine factors influencing entrepreneurial intention of the students. More so, in order to determine how students differ on their entrepreneurial intention, analysis of variance (ANOVA) has been employed. The results show that perceived desirability has statistically significant relationship with entrepreneurial intention, while the perceived feasibility has no significant relationship with entrepreneurial intention. The result also indicates that both perceived desirability and perceived feasibility are not determinants of students’ entrepreneurial intentions. It is also reveals that there is no statistical difference among the students on their entrepreneurial intention. There is need for future researchers to compare students from entirely different fields on their attitude and entrepreneurial intentions. It is important to policy makers to understand the need to have a variety of entrepreneurship course modules that will enable students to choose areas on their own rather than having same course for every student.