The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether or not entrepreneurship education helps students who have undergone entrepreneurship courses develop independence-oriented intentions. Cross-sectional survey designs were conducted. Using a proportionate stratified purposive sampling approach, a sample of 228 students was drawn from four private universities in Abuja. This research focused exclusively on the effect of entrepreneurship education on student independence-oriented intentions. The findings of the study revealed that entrepreneurship education does not necessarily challenge the students to have independence-oriented intentions even for students who have enrolled for a degree in entrepreneurship. Therefore, there is need for Nigerian educational institutions to develop effective teaching techniques for entrepreneurship educators such that more attention would be paid to educating ‘for’entrepreneurship rather than the “how” of entrepreneurship which is the norm in most entrepreneurship educational program in Nigeria. Thus, the study calls for a new approach to teaching entrepreneurship education in private universities in developing countries and Nigeria in particular.