Health Care Administration (M.H.A.)

The Health Care Administration program offers a relevant, comprehensive education for current and aspiring healthcare administrators. The MHA program focuses on the fundamental business knowledge and skills today’s healthcare leaders need to succeed in this rapidly changing industry. Upper-level electives focus on data analytics, decision modeling, and generative artificial intelligence to ensure students in the program acquire skills needed to lead today’s data-driven healthcare entities.  

This 36-credit-hour program is offered in person on campus and requires students to complete eighteen (18) credit hours in healthcare business and information systems foundations and nine (9) credits of upper-level electives focused on data analytics, decision modeling, and generative artificial intelligence. Students conclude with a nine (9) credit capstone experience that combines practical experience with the master’s capstone project.

Graduates from this program will be able to:

1. Leadership - Appraise leadership attributes in professional work and academic forums. 
2. Systems Thinking - Interpret systems thinking application in personal, team, and health care organization settings.
3. Stakeholder Interests - Assess stakeholder interests in competitive and collaborative health care initiatives.
4. Data Analysis- Identify appropriate methods for data analysis. 
5. Data Analysis- Apply relevant quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques.