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Master of Health Administration (MHA)
The MHA program prepares students for leadership positions in public and private health organizations, such as health systems, medical group companies, health insurance companies, and health agencies. This is achieved by providing a relevant curriculum that requires students to develop professional and management decision-making skills and knowledge, with application to health services and encompassing a clinical and community perspective.
Students develop knowledge and skills in accounting, financial management, health economics, quantitative methods, policy analysis, information management, strategic management, and marketing. In addition, students develop knowledge and skills in leadership, human resources management, physician relations, and governance. Students develop a working knowledge of health insurance, health law and ethics, and quality and performance improvement, and develop a clinical and community perspective through public health core courses.
Master of Health Administration graduates will be able to:
- Assess the health care system in the United States, including the role of the public health disciplines;
- Demonstrate ability to use analytic and decision-making skills in accounting, finance, health economics, quantitative methods, and policy analysis;
- Apply management, leadership and performance improvement theories and principles to solve related health services problems;
- Analyze ethical issues and implications of cultural diversity in health policy and management;
- Demonstrate ability to utilize knowledge of information systems, health law, strategic planning, and marketing to advance health services delivery and outcomes;
- Develop interpersonal and communication skills; and
- Apply critical thinking skills and knowledge to health management cases and to a health care or related organization.
Prerequisites
- Public health course prerequisites: None
- Prerequisite undergraduate courses: Micro economics.
- Undergraduate majors are diverse and include: Life sciences, social sciences, business, or health professions.
- Work experience: Preferred, but not required.
- Minimum undergrad GPA: 3.0 upper-division (some exceptions made if GRE exceeds minimum requirements).
- Verbal GRE Score: minimum 450
- Quantitative GRE Score: minimum 550
- In lieu of the GRE, only applicants to the Department of Health Policy and Management may submit a minimum GMAT score of 500 for the MHA, MPH, or MSPH.
College Core (15)
PHC 6102 Principles of Health Policy and Management (3)
PHC 6000 Epidemiology (3)
PHC 6050 Biostatistics I (3)
PHC 6357 Environmental and Occupational Health (3)
PHC 6410 Social and Behavioral Sciences Applied to Health (3)
Management and Policy (19)
PHC 6148 Strategic Planning and Health Care Marketing (3)
PHC 6147 Managing Quality in Health Care (2)
PHC 6151 Health Policy and Politics (3)
PHC 6114 Health Insurance & Managed Care (2)
PHC 6180 Health Services Management (3)
PHC 6181 Organizational Behavior in Health Services (3)
PHC 6420 Health Care Law, Regulation and Ethics (3)
Finance, Economics and Decision Making Skills (17)
ACG 6025 Financial Accounting for Managers (2)
QMB 6305 Managerial Decision Making (2)
PHC 6161 Managerial Health Care Finance and Costing (4)
PHC 6191 Quantitative Analysis in Health Services (3)
PHC 6196 Information Systems in Health Care Management (3)
PHC 6430 Health Economics I (3)
Culminating Requirements (6-7)
- PHC 6945 Supervised Field Experience (1-2)
- Students with little or no professional experience: 2 hours minimum
- Students with substantial work experience can negotiate a reduced number of hours with their advisor (e.g., 1 or 2 hours) if the student has meaningful experience (involving decision-making) in a health care or related organization
- PHC 6977 Special Project (3)
- PHC 6183 Advanced Seminar in Health Care Management (2): Case-based capstone course that includes the final comprehensive exam.
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