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2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Business Administration, Health Care Management Concentration, M.B.A.


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Program Description:

The health care industry is growing quickly, and expansion is anticipated for the foreseeable future. In addition to medical personnel, administrative personnel will be needed to manage hospitals, long-term care facilities, mental health and ambulatory care facilities, health systems, insurance companies, pharmaceutical firms, and other health care organizations. The MBA with a concentration in Health Care Management maximizes options by preparing students for the business world and/or the medical industry.

Program Goals:

Upon successful completion of the Master of Business Administration degree, students will:

  • demonstrate an understanding of the concepts, terminology, and approaches in the major areas of management and related decision-making technologies.
  • develop knowledge of the terminology and concepts used in marketing and to apply these concepts effectively in understanding the complexities of decision-making in today’s competitive marketing environment.
  • demonstrate mastery of advanced knowledge in corporate financial management topics including capital budgeting, cost of capital & capital structures, financial analysis, time value of money & valuation methodologies.
  • demonstrate knowledge and skills required to obtain employment in their field.
  • develop the skills necessary to continued success in their fields including leadership abilities and a heightened sense of social responsibility and ethics.

Credit Hours: 36

Curriculum:

MBA Core Competency Courses (6 Credits)


Students with demonstrated knowledge in Business and/or Finance may take elective courses in place of one or both of the core competency courses.

Health Care Management Concentration Courses (9 Credits)


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