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Health Administration &
Health Care Management Degree Programs

Western Governors University
Challenging and efficient. These are the hallmarks of WGU’s competency-based approach to education. Recipient of the USDLA 21st Century Award for Best Practices in Distance Learning for 2008.

  • MBA – Healthcare Management
    This online healthcare MBA will give you great opportunities for advancement. The MBA in Healthcare Management will prepare you with the skills and knowledge necessary to take on highly-valued and well-compensated positions in a variety of healthcare-related settings. You will become a valuable asset in this booming industry.

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South University
  • Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Management
    With a Bachelor of Science degree in Healthcare Management, you'll also have the educational credentials you need to work toward your master's degree and move into higher levels of healthcare administration.

    As a student in the Healthcare Management online degree program, you'll:
    • Understand basic management theory and practice through courses in management, accounting, finance, organization behavior and human resource management.
    • Learn to appreciate and work with different types of people through courses in verbal and written communication, psychology, sociology, and human growth and development.
    • Receive hands-on experience through an internship program with healthcare facilities that might include hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory care facilities, physician practices, and pharmaceutical and medical equipment companies.
    • Study health services management in courses that include public health issues, the structure and function of health organizations, leadership in healthcare organizations, health finance, health ethics and law, health economics, and healthcare marketing and strategy.

    When you graduate from this online degree program, you'll be prepared to work in a variety of entry-level healthcare management positions - as a physician's office administrator, a nursing-care facility administrative assistant, a medical equipment sales and purchase representative, or as a staff employee at hospitals, government agencies or insurance companies. With experience, you'll be ready to grow into positions such as department head or functional manager.

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Colorado Technical University (CTU)
  • Bachelor of Science (BSBA) - Health Care Management

    The field of health care is expanding and adapting to respond to changes in the demographics and needs of its constituents. As health care evolves, effective management is becoming even more essential. Colorado Tech Online's Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) with a concentration in Health Care Management helps students develop the business, management, financial, and even human resource skills needed to succeed in the industry.

    Just as in Colorado Tech Online's other Bachelor's degree programs, students can earn their BSBA in Health Care Management.* Plus, they will earn six Professional Certificates along the way without additional course or tuition costs.
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  • Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Health Care Management

    Leaders in health care management use business skills to address challenges unique to the health care field. Colorado Tech Online's Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a concentration in Health Care Management helps students develop the skills they need to coordinate the most effective use of resources while working within the constraints of legal, regulatory, and ethical guidelines. This concentration covers a range of skills relevant to the health care environment, including management concepts and processes, resource allocation, risk assessment, and financing.

    Graduates of the program can pursue careers as Health and Social Service Managers, Patient Accounts Supervisors, Home Health Care Managers, Health & Safety Managers, Health Information Managers, Health Services Managers, and Mental Health Center Directors.

    Students can will earn one Professional Certificates along the way without additional course or tuition costs.
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University of Phoenix
  • BS in Health Administration

    The Bachelor of Science in Health Administration major is designed to integrate a foundation of general education and applied sciences with the expertise that prepares the graduate for management positions in health care. The BSHA curriculum addresses the basic body of knowledge, understanding, and skills identified to be relevant to health care administration:

    • Structuring and positioning health organizations to achieve optimal performance.
    • Leadership, interpersonal and communications skills in managing human resources and health professionals in diverse organizational environments.
    • Statistical, quantitative and economic analysis in decision-making.
    • Financial management of health organizations under alternative financing mechanisms.
    • Legal and ethical analysis applied to business and clinical decision-making.
    • Managing information resources and collecting, analyzing and using business and health information in decision-making.
    • Assessment and understanding of the health status of populations, determinants of health and illness, and managing health risks and behaviors in diverse populations.
    • Business and health outcomes measurement, process/outcome relationships and methods for process improvement in health organizations.
    • Organizational and governmental health policy formulation, implementation and effect.
    • The development, organization, financing, performance and change of health systems in diverse communities drawing broadly on the social and behavioral sciences.

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  • MBA/Health Care Management

    The MBA/HCM is designed to provide students with the business management skills needed to manage successfully in today’s health care delivery systems. The MBA/HCM program emphasizes the identification, analysis, and solution of complex management problems with a foundation of health care concepts and decision models that will support the variety of management roles that can be seen in today’s health care environment. The MBA/HCM specialization is based upon courses in health care organizations, health care finance, quality and data base management, health care infrastructure, and health care strategic management.
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  • Master of Health Administration

    The Master of Health Administration (MHA) program prepares leaders who can effectively respond to the dynamic and ever-changing health care industry. These individuals have a capacity to critically examine and evaluate issues and trends and are empowered to influence the destiny of the global health care system. Curriculum is tailored to the needs of the health care leader/manager by providing content in finance, policy, research, technology, quality improvement, economics, marketing and strategic planning. In addition, students will be asked to complete course work related to their area of concentration such as public health, long-term care, and health informatics.
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  • Doctor of Health Administration

    The Doctor of Health Administration (DHA) program prepares leaders to respond effectively to the dynamic and ever-changing health care industry. These individuals will have a capacity to critically examine and evaluate issues and trends and feel empowered to influence the destiny of the health care system.
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American InterContinental University (AIU) Online

AIU Online is the web-based virtual campus of American InterContinental University, an international university with residential campuses located in Atlanta, Georgia; London, and England.


  • Associate's (AABA) - Healthcare Administration

    The AIU Online Associate of Arts in Business Administration with a concentration in Healthcare Administration combines real-world business skills with specific knowledge of today's expanding field of healthcare management. Students learn to identify key ethical, theoretical, and practical issues related to medical records. They learn how to perform essential clerical and organizational tasks within a healthcare office. Discussion of ethical, legislative, and regulatory issues relative to the day-to-day operations of a medical or allied health office is also included in this up-to-date, real-world curriculum.
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  • Bachelor's (BBA) - Healthcare Management

    AIU Online's BBA in Healthcare Management is your prescription for success, whether you want to break into the healthcare industry. Your AIU Online education will combine a solid foundation in business with coursework that specializes in healthcare management.

    It was designed to provide a unique, market-relevant combination of a comprehensive business education with real-world, healthcare-focused applications.
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  • MBA - Healthcare Management

    Having AIU Online's Master's in Business Administration in Healthcare Management tells employers you have the skills to succeed at an executive level.
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Walden University
  • Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) - Health Services

    The MBA program combines high-quality core curriculum with the Global Business specialization curriculum that is consistently updated to ensure real-world relevancy to today's global marketplace. At Walden, you have maximum flexibility to design an MBA program that meets your needs and interests.

  • Master of Public Administration (M.P.A) - Health Services

    Walden's Master of Public Administration (MPA) program with a health services specialization will help you gain valuable knowledge about health delivery systems, health policy, health administration, and health finance centers so you can manage effectively and successfully in this unique environment. Walden's MPA prepares public/nonprofit professionals like you to excel in our increasingly complex, politicized, intergovernmental environment.


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Remington College

  • Medical Assisting - (8 Month Diploma Program)
    Medical assistants have become an important part of the health care team and their responsibilities continue to expand as the need for their services grows.

    The objective of the Medical Assisting Program is to provide graduates with the skills and knowledge that will enable them to qualify for entry-level positions as medical assistants. Since medical assistants are trained in both administrative and clinical procedures, they are capable of filling a variety of entry-level positions including: clinical or administrative assistant, medical receptionist and medical insurance biller.

    Contact the campus in your area that offers this program to find out more specifics, or about other courses and financial aid.



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- Medical Billing & Coding
- Nursing Degree Programs
- Pharmacy Technician
- Psychology Degree Programs


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