The program provides an excellent academic foundation for today's health care executive and offers a strategic advantage in this highly competitive industry.
Career opportunities are as diverse and flexible as our students' interests and experiences.
Although students are responsible for their career and the direction it will take, our faculty's industry ties support those efforts. Course work focuses on health policy and administration, and business, with emphases on strategic decision making, marketing, financial management, health care organizations, communication skills, human health and illness, epidemiology, managed care, health care financing, and health care information systems and technology. During the first year of the program, students take a core set of courses in the MBA program and one MHA course each semester. During the second year of the program, students are required to take an additional 15 credits in health administration and 12 credits of electives that may be selected in any combination from business or health administration. Students are also expected to participate in periodic professional seminars to prepare them for the summer administrative residency and to determine an area of professional emphasis.