
Masters in Healthcare Administration
Improve the experience of healthcare providers and patients by taking your place in a fast-growing and innovative industry. Make moves to advance your healthcare career by pursuing your master’s degree in healthcare administration from the Golden State College
What is a Masters in Healthcare Administration?
A master’s degree in healthcare administration expands your knowledge of the healthcare field and is designed for those looking to find new opportunities within healthcare administration field. Due to the comprehensive and advanced nature of this master’s program in healthcare, it can be highly desirable to both students and potential employers in the industry.
The skills and knowledge you obtain from Golden State College will unlock a variety of opportunities, as this program will help you develop the skills needed to advance to a leadership position, and prepare you for management roles in the healthcare industry.
Our MHA program will incorporate integration and application of healthcare theories and concepts across the domains of organized healthcare. Topics addressed throughout the MHA curriculum include: finance, economics, leadership, quality improvement, risk management, health policy, law, ethics, strategic planning, information systems, statistical reasoning, and human resources. Upon completion of master’s healthcare administration degree, you will be able to:
Apply health care financial and accounting concepts in organizational decision making
Apply principles of leadership in the developing of strategic goals, achieving organizational outcomes, and modeling professional values
Formulate health care decisions consistent with legal and ethical standards
Utilize health care information technology and statistical reasoning in organizational planning and decision-making
Demonstrate sensitivity to diversity in the health care setting
Evaluate health care outcomes using quality improvement and risk standards
Apply health care economic perspectives in the interpretation of health policy
Apply problem-solving approaches in the resolution of health care issues
Communicate the responsibility of a health care professional remaining current in their professional knowledge
Program Requirements
Total number of credits: 36 credits
Course requirements: 36 credits
To be awarded the Master of Arts in Health Care Administration degree, all students must complete 36 credit hours with a 3.00 minimum grade point average in all coursework attempted at the University.
Earn your Master of Arts in Health Care Administration from Golden State College. Deepen the value of your services with the expertise that derives from an advanced degree. The courses in this graduate curriculum are taught by advanced-degree faculty with real-world experience in the subjects they teach.
Major Course Requirements (36 credits, all courses are 3 credits.)
Master Health Care Administration
MHA 601 Principles of Health Care Administration
MHA 605 Business Intelligence
MHA 612 Financial & Managerial Accounting
MHA 616 Health Care Management Information Systems
MHA 618 Health Economics
MHA 620 Health Policy Analyses
MHA 622 Health Care Ethics & Law
MHA 624 Continuous Quality Improvements & Risk Management
MHA 626 Strategic Planning & Marketing in Health Care
MHA 628 Managed Care & Contractual Services
MHA 630 Global & Population Health: Comparative Systems
MHA 690 Health Care Capstone
Master of Public Health - Health Care Administration Track
MHA 618 Health Economics
MHA 620 Health Policy Analyses
MHA 622 Health Care Ethics & Law
Before pursuing your master’s degree in healthcare administration, it’s important to understand the requirements that are needed. Our graduate-level healthcare administration program requires students to have a bachelor’s degree and be in good educational standings. While a bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration is not specifically required, it is usually recommended, as many of the core foundations that are established within a bachelor’s degree are expanded on during this master’s program.
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