The goal of the nonprofit leadership degree is to prepare nonprofit professionals to deal with the complexities and challenges of managing a nonprofit organization in today’s “new normal” business environment. The program content is designed to promote a holistic business-focused nonprofit management thinking process among students and develop real-world nonprofit business skills that emphasize both the organization’s mission and the business of leading a self-sustaining nonprofit organization. Courses deliver both practical and theoretical considerations to address the needs of nonprofit professional and the organizations they work in. The degree requires satisfactory completion of 24 credit hours of required courses and 12 credit hours of graduate electives for a total of 36 credit hours. Business and management programs are ACBSP accredited.

Students completing Master of Arts in Nonprofit Leadership will be able to: * Articulate the important terminology, facts, concepts, principles, analytic techniques, and theories used in the field of nonprofit leadership. * Analyze complex factual situations using the important facts, concepts and theories of the nonprofit leadership field to help diagnose best practices, problems, and opportunities facing nonprofit organizations. * Integrate theories and models to develop solutions to complex issues and problems facing leaders of nonprofit organizations, and then demonstrate the effectiveness of their solutions using either quantitative or qualitative criteria.