The study was conducted to assess the skills requirement among business education students in the management of small scale businesses in colleges of education in Bauchi State, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The research study has one objective, research questions and hypotheses each. The population for the study was 197. The entire populations of One Hundred and Ninety Seven (197) students were used in the study. One Hundred and Thirteen (113) students from Aminu Saleh College of Education Azare and Eighty Four (84) students from Adamu Tafawa Balewa College of Education Kangere. Therefore, census population was used in this study since there was no sampling, a structured questionnaire containing 63 items was used to elicit responses from respondents and generate data for the study. The instrument for the study was a structured questionnaire. Cronbach Alpha method was used to determine the internal consistency of the instrument. To establish the reliability of the instrument, thirty (30) copies of questionnaire was distributed to NCE III business education students in Federal College of Education, Potiskum Yobe state, the Reliability coefficient of 0.89 was obtained. The data collected for the study was analyzed using mean to answer the research questions and standard deviation to determine the closeness of the response from the mean, while t-test statistic was used to test the hypotheses at the probability of 0.05 level of significance. Findings from the analysis showed that Business education students in colleges of education have moderately high level of accounting skills and Office technology management skills in the management of small scale businesses. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended amongst others that Seminar and workshops should be organized annually by the government in order to update both teachers and students on the entrepreneurship competencies needed for management of small scale business.