Health Care Management Programs

University of Minnesota

• The University of Minnesota offers a joint-degree program that allows students to obtain proper training for the health care management industry. The program requires that students obtain both a master of business administration (MBA) degree and a master of health care administration (MHA). To complete the program as a joint-degree option, students must be admitted separately into the university's business school and the school of public health. Business studies include many of the basic areas offered in most MBA programs, including marketing, accounting, finance and strategic management. In the area of public health, students take courses in health finance and operations and human resource management in health care. Within the MHA program, subspecialties are offered in the areas of health products, financial management, long-term care administration, strategic management, health policy, operations management, information and decision science, maternal and child health, marketing management and integrated delivery systems.

  University of Minnesota---Twin Cities
  School of Public Health
  420 Delaware Street SE
  Minneapolis, MN 55455
  612-624-6151
  sph.umn.edu/hpm/

University of Michigan

• Similar to the University of Minnesota's program, the University of Michigan offers a joint-degree program leading to both the MBA and one of two possible degrees in the field of health care administration, the master of public health (MPH) or the master of health services administration (MHSA). The MHSA degree is more suited to students who expect to focus almost exclusively on the practical aspects of health care administration, while the MPH degree is designed for students who plan to pursue research that affects the health care industry such as how certain socioeconomic conditions influence the quality of health care.

  University of Michigan--Ann Arbor
  School of Public Health
  109 Observatory Street
  Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029
  734-763-9900
  sph.umich.edu/hmp/

University of North Carolina

• A third option for those looking for a health care management program is the joint-degree program offered at the University of North Carolina (UNC). UNC's health care management program requires that students obtain both the MHA and the MBA degrees. As with the programs at Michigan and Minnesota, both degree programs mus be applied to separately. Combined, both degree programs can generally be completed in about three years. Students take courses in management consulting, finance, sustainable enterprise and accounting as part of the MBA program while the MHA program requires courses in areas such as health care organizational leadership, health care economics and environmental concerns in health care.

  University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill
  Gillings School of Global Public Health
  Department of Health Policy and Management
  1101 McGavran-Greenberg Hall
  CB 7411
  Chapel Hill, NC 27599
  919-966-7350
  sph.unc.edu