Most universities treat entrepreneurship as a degree. NUTM treats it as a thread, and runs it through every programme in both faculties, accounting, economics, cybersecurity and information technology included.
“A university is not a place for memorization and regurgitation but a place for experiential transformation to prepare students to make a resounding impact in society.”
The reasoning
The Nigerian graduate labour market does not consist mainly of large employers with structured graduate schemes. It consists of small firms, young firms, and firms that do not exist yet. A graduate who can only operate inside an established process is under-equipped for the market they are actually entering.
So the venture design lab appears in the third year of every undergraduate degree, the Market-Creating Innovation Bootcamp closes the MBA's third semester, and the entrepreneurship degree carries a venture the student is expected to build, price, sell and, frequently, abandon.
What it is not
It is not a business plan competition. Students work against live briefs and real customers rather than supplied cases, and the assessment weights the reasoning at least as heavily as the outcome. A venture that was correctly wound up, with the evidence documented, is a pass.
