Author(s): Olafisan OD, Tajudeen Adewumi Adebisi
This study examined the level to which students were aware of entrepreneurial opportunities in their courses of study in higher institutions of learning. It identified and examined strategies that could be used in promoting entrepreneurial awareness among the undergraduates in Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was used with a population of 7,985 undergraduates drawn from the existing thirteen faculties in OAU. The simple random sampling technique was used to select 1,920 students. The instrument was a 12-item questionnaire tagged: Awareness of Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Courses of Study (AEOCS). Mean, Standard Deviation and Rank Order were used to analyses the data. The results revealed that appreciable level of entrepreneurial awareness existed among OAU undergraduates since the grand mean (3.92) was above the criterion mean (2.51). Also, the study revealed strategies such as compulsory inclusion of entrepreneurship in school curriculum, teaching students how to work as a team, imbibing of personal maturity, engaging students in critical thinking activities could be employed to promote entrepreneurial awareness among the undergraduates. The study recommended entrepreneurial supporting scheme to further promote undergraduates’ awareness of entrepreneurial opportunities in their courses of study and the university curriculum content, at undergraduate level, should contain courses which provide the students with sufficient entrepreneurial information in order to equip them for future challenges.