Spring 2025
CLASSES START
Jan 13
SESSION B
CLASSES START
Mar 2
Program Overview
Want to make the world a better place and address challenging social issues with a strong business sense? Our BBA in Nonprofit Management prepares students to think critically, creatively, and collaboratively about issues facing government, for-profit, and nonprofit enterprises.
Our professors inspire student social entrepreneurs to act boldly by exposing them to people who have started social ventures and engaging the community to witness and experience first-hand what is happening right here in Metro Detroit.
degree requirements
Our Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Nonprofit Management provides a strong foundation in business with a focus on nonprofit management with a specific vocational emphasis. With courses in financial management, public policy and human resources, among others, you’ll gain the knowledge and skills to address challenging social issues and take on leadership roles in the nonprofit sector.
- CRITICAL THINKING: Professional graduates think critically and apply systems thinking to decision making.
- PROBLEM-SOLVING and APPLICATION: Professional graduates apply functional area concepts and theories appropriately.
- PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION: Professional graduates communicate effectively by preparing and delivering oral and written presentations using appropriate technologies.
- SOCIAL AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY: Professional graduates align personal, professional, and organizational conduct with ethical and professional standards of conduct including an understanding of corporate social responsibility.
- VOCATIONAL AWARENESS: Professional graduates demonstrate an understanding of God’s ongoing story in the world and their responsibility to God, self, organization, and the world as a part of that ongoing story.
- ORGANIZATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL IMPACT: Professional graduates assess the success of an organization based on the sustainability of both its mission and its economic value creation through qualitative and quantitative analysis.
- PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Professional graduates integrate entrepreneurial value creation in both their personal and professional lives through the evaluation of benefits and risks of opportunities.
Total Credit Hours: 120
- General Education Core: 35 hours
- Business Core: 42 hours
- Nonprofit Management Major: 30 hours
- Vocational Emphasis – Choose one: 12 hours
- Electives: 13 hours
- National Society of Leadership and Success
- Student Business Senate
Program Statistics
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Graduates hired within 6 months
Jobs filled by Rochester grads
Career Opportunities
Types of Jobs
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Corporate Social Responsibility for Companies
- Local Government
- Community Engagement for Organizations
- Social Entrepreneurship
$62,600
$84,200
$104,500
Avg. Salaries post graduation
(Courtesy of Salary.com for Community Engagement Coordinator in Detroit)
Market Trends
Number of Jobs in 2021 = 173,700
Job outlook = 11% increase (2021-2031)
Employment change from 2021-2031 = 18,000
(Courtesy of O*Net Online for Social and Community Service Managers)
student experience
Internships
Clubs
- National Society of Leadership and Success
- Student Business Senate
Activities
alumni profile
For my senior project, I helped design a revenue-generating business plan that was implemented at Mariner’s Inn, a Detroit homeless shelter. This opportunity allowed me to experience an inspiring intertwining of social mission and an economic plan. The program taught me to look at people, planet and profit - something that helps me impact lives through my vocation.
Faculty
School of Business and Technology
RUAC 500
(248) 218-2096
rpinchback@rochesteru.edu
School of Business and Technology
RUAC 500
(248) 218-2096
rpinchback@rochesteru.edu
Accounting and Financial Studies School of Business and Technology
School of Business and Technology
RUAC 302B
(248) 218-2052
kstokes@rochesteru.edu
School of Business and Technology
RUAC 302B
(248) 218-2052
kstokes@rochesteru.edu
Chair, Management and Leadership Studies School of Business and Technology
School of Business and Technology
RUAC 303B
(248) 218-2134
jvettraino@rochesteru.edu
School of Business and Technology
RUAC 303B
(248) 218-2134
jvettraino@rochesteru.edu
