Healthcare Administration, M.S.

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The Master of Science in Healthcare Administration is designed to equip students with practical knowledge and skills applicable to real-world healthcare administration. This degree will prepare students for various managerial and leadership roles in the healthcare industry. The cutting-edge curriculum, founded on innovative techniques and a practice-enabled learning model, emphasizes conceptual, analytical, and practical real-world experiences critical to managing contemporary healthcare organizations.

Learning Outcomes:

Students will demonstrate advanced knowledge of present-day healthcare theories and practices.
Students will gain hands-on experience and application-based skills, allowing them to advance as successful healthcare leaders in contemporary healthcare organizations.
Students will gain teamwork experience and develop the interpersonal skills required to communicate effectively, interact, and collaborate in today’s rapidly changing healthcare environment.
Students will apply ethical reasoning, strategies, and behaviors to resolve ethical and business healthcare issues.
Students will conduct rigorous research and apply research-based strategies that integrate theory and practical applications across business functional areas in healthcare administration.

Course Requirements: 31 Credit Hours

BADM 532 - Organizational Behavior Credit(s): 3 hours
MSAI 544 - Application of AI in Healthcare Credit(s): 3 hours
BADM 670 - Digital Health and Analytics Credit(s): 3 hours
BACC 661 - Healthcare Accounting Credit(s): 3 hours
BADM 663 - Healthcare Marketing Credit(s): 3 hours
BADM 664 - Healthcare Finance Credit(s): 3 hours
BADM 665 - Healthcare Policy and Economics Credit(s): 3 hours
BADM 667 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare Administration Credit(s): 3 hours
BADM 668 - Strategic Management in Healthcare Administration Credit(s): 3 hours
BADM 662 - Customer Satisfaction Measurement Credit(s): 3 hours
BADM 699 - Capstone Credit(s): 1 hour *
OR
INTR 599 - Applied Learning Practicum Credit(s): 1 hour **

Notes:

*All online students who are seeking to earn this degree must take this course in lieu of INTR 599, in addition to meeting all program degree requirements. Executive format students can substitute the required INTR 599 course in lieu of this course as part of their program degree requirements.

** Executive format programs have an applied learning component (internship or practicum) that is an integral and essential part of the established curriculum. Due to the applied learning component required for the degree program, Executive format students must enroll in INTR every term of enrollment.