This specialized MBA degree prepares business leaders with focused skills in finance, accounting, strategic management, marketing, and information systems for the nonprofit sector.

This curriculum reflects the program’s conviction that both for-profit and nonprofit management skills are needed for the viable well being, direction, governance, and growth of today’s contemporary nonprofit organizations.

The MBA/Nonprofit degree has the same number of credits as the MBA. The specialization occurs in the designation of the electives.

Locations

The MBA portion of this specialized degree may be completed at our main Boston campus, at our North Campus location, and fully online.

The specialized nonprofit portion of the degree must be completed on campus in Boston.

MBA/Nonprofit Program of Study

Required Introductory Course – 1 credit

• MBA 600  Effective Career Planning

Core Courses – 24 credits – may be waived

• MBA 610  Organizational Behavior 
• MBA 622 Operations and Data Analysis
• MBA 630  Economic Analysis for Managers 
• MBA 640  Corporate Financial Reporting and Control 
• MBA 650  Value-Based Financial Management 
• MBA 660  Marketing: The Challenge of Managing Value 
• MBA 670  Information Management for Competitive Advantage 
• MBA 680  Managing in the Ethical and Legal Environment 

Required Global Course –  3 credits

• MBA 780  Managing in the Global Environment

 Required Capstone Course -- 3 credits

• MBA 800  Strategic Management 

Electives – 24 credits **

Four electives (12 credits) from the following Nonprofit courses:

• PAD 815  Nonprofit Organizations in the Community
• PAD 835  Nonprofit Marketing
• PAD 839  Leadership & Decision-Making 
• PAD 845  The Entrepreneurial Nonprofit 
• PAD 849  Revenue Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations OR PAD 847  Nonprofit Financial Management OR Not-for-Profit Accounting and Control 
• ACCT 871 Not for Profit Accounting

Three electives  (9 credits) from the following, at least one of which must be a NON P.AD course:

• PAD 818  Public Sector Labor-Management Relations OR PAD 716 Public Service Human Resource Management
• PAD 819  Grants-in-Aid & Grants Management 
• PAD 821  Human Services Integration 
• PAD 822  Public Management Information Systems 
• PAD 830  Public Liaison Strategies 
• PAD 839 Leadership and Decision Making
• PAD 840  Comparative Public Policy 
• PAD 848  Nonprofit Law and Ethics 
• PAD 850  Alternative Dispute Resolution
• FIN 810 Investment Analysis 
• FIN 831 Portfolio Management 
• HLTH 701 Health Systems I 
• HLTH 824 Healthcare Accounting
• ISOM 810 Management of Information Technologies 
• ISOM 824 E-Commerce Web Design 
• MGOB 860 Leadership and Team Building 
• MGOB 825 Human Resource Management
• MGSM 833 Corporate Innovation
• MKT 814 Strategic Marketing

One elective (3 credits) must be an MBA elective and may be selected from accounting, business law and ethics,entrepreneurship, finance and managerial economics, information systems, international business, marketing, organizational behavior, strategic management, and taxation.

** One of your electives must be from the international business area.