Anonymous
08/07/2025 19:30
Subject: What major for non profit jobs?
Anonymous wrote:most majors at a slc
And therefore most majors, right? SLACs have the same majors as universities (math, physics, chemistry, biology, English, economics, anthropology, music). They are just less likely to have business, engineering, nursing, etc.
Anonymous
08/07/2025 15:14
Subject: What major for non profit jobs?
Oops. DC.
Anonymous
08/07/2025 15:14
Subject: What major for non profit jobs?
Lots of opportunity for SC to reflect, and lots of questions to consider:
What are the societal “problems” they’d like to help solve or the “populations” they’d like to serve?
Do they see themselves focused on the US or international/global?
Do they want to provide direct services (counseling, legal services, medical services, community organizing, training etc.) or do they see themselves behind the scenes (developing programs, raising money, supervising staff, researching best practices, testing programs’ effectiveness, back office needs like HR, finance, IT)
What are the societal “problems” they’d like to help solve or the “populations” they’d like to serve?
Do they see themselves focused on the US or international/global?
Do they want to provide direct services (counseling, legal services, medical services, community organizing, training etc.) or do they see themselves behind the scenes (developing programs, raising money, supervising staff, researching best practices, testing programs’ effectiveness, back office needs like HR, finance, IT)
Anonymous
08/07/2025 11:26
Subject: What major for non profit jobs?
Anonymous wrote:I'm a lawyer at a legal services nonprofit. No one has ever asked or cared about my major. We also employ social workers; while many of them majored in psychology or similar before getting their masters, it's not required. The development people have also majored in a variety of things.
Your student should major in whatever they find interesting. Many nonprofits are mission driven, so studying something relevant to their interests (urban studies, public health, political science, whatever) might help show why they want to work for a particular nonprofit. Volunteering would do that too.
This is an example of why it may not matter what your kid majors in in college unless going into technical field and as long as they get the degree. They should pick a major they enjoy or can stand studying for that many years.