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The study analyzed the project and zoom approaches as correlates of employability opportunities of business education undergraduate students in tertiary institutions in Rivers State. Correlation survey design was adopted for this study. This study as carried out in Rivers State. The population of this study consisted of five hundred and ten (510) final year students from the two State-Owned Tertiary Institutions running business education programme in Rivers State. Simple random sampling technique was adopted in selecting 224 final year business education students. Two set of questionnaires titled “Technology-Based Instruction Approaches of Business Education Students Questionnaire (TBIABESQ)” and “Employability Opportunities of Business Education Students Questionnaire (EOBESQ)” were collected for the study. The researcher employed face and content validity methods. A test-retest method of reliability was adopted in this study. The researcher used Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) to analyze and answer the research questions and to test the null hypotheses that were formulated at 0.05 level of significance. The study showed that there is a significant relationship between projector instruction approach and employability opportunities in the aforementioned tertiary institutions in Rivers State and also that there is a significant relationship between zoom instruction approach and employability opportunities in the aforementioned tertiary institutions in Rivers State. Based on the analyses and discussion of findings, the study concluded that technology-based instruction approaches bring about a corresponding improvement in employability opportunities of business education students in State-Owned tertiary institutions. One of the recommendations made was that the management of tertiary institutions has a policy on the adoption of computer tools for lecturers in the teaching of business education since it has a direct bearing on the employability of business education graduates.