How can you fit healthcare, business, and your career goals into one master's degree program? It's possible, with Southern New Hampshire University's Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Healthcare Management. Healthcare is growing and it's growing fast. To move your skills into the future, SNHU has revised its traditional MBA curriculum to better serve you in a role with high-performing healthcare companies.

The skills you'll learn in the MBA in Healthcare Management program help prepare you to transition into or excel in leadership roles in hospitals, clinics, medical offices, healthcare corporations, insurance, and pharmaceuticals. And you'll get the hands-on experience you need through your participation in scenario-based learning, giving you the problem-solving experience you need to succeed. Our 10-course program can help you excel at managing the day-to-day intricacies of major organizations, including healthcare systems, as well as develop the skills to think critically, fix programs and undertake strategic planning. And the updated curriculum was also designed to help you succeed throughout the program: With more fluidity in assignment due dates, some of your assignments will now span multiple modules.

Learn how to:

- Lead and operate within cross-functional teams by effectively navigating the complexities of healthcare management

- Analyze and interpret data for decision-making

- Develop and foster adaptable strategies for an organization

- Evaluate and implement various models and processes in the design and continuous improvement of organizations and their practices

- Cultivate globally aware and culturally responsive teams and organizations

- Create and implement plans around culture, ethical and legal standards, and sustainable practices

Should you want to focus more on healthcare, SNHU also offers a Master's in Healthcare Administration and a Master's in Management with a concentration in Healthcare. The subject-matter experts at Southern New Hampshire University have turned the traditional online MBA into a program that lets you practice the skills you'll need to lead healthcare while you're studying them. Revised in 2021, the major courses have been trimmed down to 7 core courses in broad discipline areas, weaving critical cross-cutting business themes throughout each class. Within your classes, you'll have the opportunity to participate in scenario-based learning projects. Solving a problem on your own or with a group, you'll need to apply critical and creative thinking, as well as problem-solving skills, in a real-world context.

"The new program is more centered around creating the kinds of deliverables, including analyses and reports, that will be expected from an MBA in real-world practice," said Dr. Andrew Gallion, an adjunct instructor who contributed to the updated MBA curriculum. "While the exercises are academic, their application is absolutely based on actual scenarios in industry, and the resulting work products are measured against industry standards."

What's more, built into the courses are teachings that position you to earn industry-recognized credentials throughout the length of your program. That way, you're earning more resume-building skills even before you get your degree.

In addition to gaining a solid foundation in business management in your core classes, earning your MBA in Healthcare online can also expand your understanding of:

- Social, ethical, and organizational challenges faced by healthcare workers and how to effectively handle these challenges

- Introducing and managing clinical information systems and their effects on patients and interdisciplinary teams

- Current trends in healthcare informatics practices and how technology can improve patient care

- Healthcare industry trends, including quality care initiatives, population health management, medical law and ethics, and other current topics

Healthcare administrators support policies and processes for the delivery of care and services that impact our patient populations, said Dr. Toni Clayton, associate dean of healthcare professions at Southern New Hampshire University. It requires leaders to apply healthcare principles and methodologies as they manage people and processes."

The MBA in Healthcare Management online program may include classes like:

- Healthcare Informatics: Dive deep into the history and current state of healthcare, as well as how the industry uses information systems to improve patient care.

- Topics in Health Administration: Develop organizational processes and structures using the total quality management (TQM) approach to deliver health services.

- Social & Organizational Issues in Healthcare: Study change management strategies, including the impact of introducing or enhancing clinical information systems and the effect of these systems on patients and on interdisciplinary teams within the healthcare setting.

"These courses, combined with the business curriculum, help students to expand business management theories and methodologies to a focus on healthcare delivery systems," Clayton said.

The healthcare concentration was designed to provide a solid understanding of business as it relates to the healthcare industry. That's why Dr. Thomas Scott '15 returned to school for a health-based MBA. As he was promoted up the ranks and moved over to the business side, he realized more and more of the conversations he was having were business-focused.

"Which is when I realized I needed to get a business degree because a lot of the time I found myself sitting in meetings and not talking about medical stuff at all," Scott said. Now, said Scott, responsibilities like creating budgets are no longer a mysterious process. "It all makes perfect sense to me now," he said.

Don't have a business background? No problem. Our MBA is accessible to everyone. Interested students must have a conferred undergraduate degree for acceptance, but it can be in any field. Those without an undergraduate degree in business or a related field may be asked to complete up to 2 foundation courses to get started. These foundations cover essential business skill sets and can be used to satisfy elective requirements for the general-track MBA. With foundations, the maximum length of your online MBA would be 36 credits.

Attend full-time or part-time. Students in the MBA have the option to enroll full-time (at 2 classes per term) or part-time (with 1 class per term). Full-time students should be able to complete the program in about 1 year, while part-time students could finish in about 2 years. Our students are busy, often juggling jobs, family, and other obligations, so you may want to work with your academic advisor to identify the course plan that works for you. The good news is, you can switch from full-time to part-time and back again as often as you want.

Part of our mission to expand access to quality, higher education means removing the barriers that may stand between you and your degree. That's why you can apply at any time and get a decision within days of submitting all required materials with no GRE or GMAT required. Acceptance decisions are made on a rolling basis throughout the year for our 5 graduate terms.

$150 Graduation Fee, Course Materials ($ varies by course)