Overview
M.B.A. in Nonprofit Management from Heller School
The Heller M.B.A. in Nonprofit Management is an AACSB-accredited program providing training for the distinctive management issues facing organizations whose mission is to improve social and environmental outcomes. Students in our nonprofit degree programs are trained to be effective leaders in the nonprofit world. But the skills they learn in Heller's nonprofit degree programs, coupled with the ideals valued in a school of social policy, transfer easily to governmental and for-profit organizations. Graduates with an M.B.A. in Nonprofit Management take on a variety of leadership roles in the nonprofit, for-profit, and public sectors.
Heller's M.B.A. in Nonprofit Management Develops Agents of Change Who Advance Social Justice
The Heller M.B.A. in Nonprofit Management allows students to be an agent of change who leverages the tools of an M.B.A. to advance social justice. Students expand their knowledge with a frameworks course on social policy and one on social justice, and they learn to analyze, evaluate, and advocate for sound knowledge-based social policies.
Organizations need to be accountable to the financial bottom line as well as the organization's social mission, and graduates with a Heller M.B.A. in Nonprofit Management can accomplish this. Students also learn to apply methods of participatory management in order to meet desired financial and social outcomes. Students complete their Heller M.B.A. degrees with a semester-long project working in a team with other students to address a current management challenge confronting issues of social justice.
The M.B.A. Program in Nonprofit Management Offers Concentrations and Dual Degrees
Concentrations during the M.B.A. program in nonprofit management are available in several areas. The concentration in health care management trains students to lead in the changing landscape and infrastructure of health care. The children, youth, and family management concentration prepares graduates of the M.B.A. program to lead organizations whose mission is to foster the healthy development of children, youth, and families. Another concentration, in aging management, equips program graduates to deal with the complex needs of the elderly population.
Dual-degree M.B.A. program are also offered through the Heller School. They include the M.B.A./M.A. in Jewish Professional Leadership; the M.B.A./M.A. in Sustainable International Development; and the M.B.A./M.S. in International Health Policy and Management. For those who wish to bring leadership skills to a variety of social issues, the M.B.A. program in nonprofit management is ideal.
