Abstract
This study focused on entrepreneurial readiness of undergraduate Business Education students in public universities in South-East Nigeria. Entrepreneurial readiness of the students was based on four indicators.Population comprised 277 final-year Business Education students in all public universities in South-East Nigeria. Questionnaire was used for data collection.Entrepreneurial readiness scores (ERS) were measured using four indicators: entrepreneurial career choice preference, intention, attitudes, and skills. Five research questions and four hypotheses guided the study. Data were analyzed using mean and t-test at a 0.05 level of significance. The indicators and ERS were interpreted based on real limits of numbers. The results indicate that the students had mean scores of 5.71, 5.62, 5.50 and 6.07 for entrepreneurial career choice preference, intention, attitudes and skills, respectively and were ‘ready’ with an ERS of 5.73. The ERS of the students did not differ significantly based on gender, having a parent/guardian entrepreneur, currently owning/managing a business (business experience), or academic ability level. It was therefore recommended, among others, that an entrepreneurship-friendly environment and provisions should be made available to enable the Business Education students to translate their entrepreneurial readiness into viable enterprises.