Relationship Between Digital Entrepreneurship Skills and Wealth Creation Among Postgraduate Business Education Students in Rivers State Universities

Abstract

This study investigated the adoption of digital entrepreneurship and its relationship with wealth creation among Business Education students at Rivers State Universities. Guided by two specific objectives, research questions, and hypotheses, the study employed a correlational design. The population consisted of 111 postgraduate Business Education students from two public universities in Rivers State offering the programme in the 2022/2023 academic year. Due to the manageable population size, sampling was not required. A validated researcher-developed questionnaire was used for data collection, with a reliability coefficient of 0.83 for the Digital Entrepreneurship Transformation Questionnaire (DESQ) and 0.76 for the Business Education Graduate Student Wealth Creation Questionnaire (BEPSWCQ). All 111 distributed questionnaires were administered, retrieved, and analyzed using SPSS 2023. The results showed that graduate students perceived digital marketing and cybersecurity as key digital entrepreneurship skills for wealth creation. Based on these findings, the study recommends that post graduate Business Education students should focus on digital marketing, acqu