Health Care Administration Schools

University of Pennsylvania

• In 2010, U.S. News and World Report magazine rated the University of Pennsylvania fourth out of all universities in the United States. A member of the Ivy League, the private, nonsectarian university is in Philadelphia and has an undergraduate enrollment of less than 10,000 students. Admission to the university is highly competitive; less than 17 percent of those who apply receive an invitation to attend the school, according to the 2009 Barron's Profiles of American Colleges. The school's prestigious Wharton School of Business grants a bachelor's degree in health care management. Students in the program study health care systems, economics of health delivery, health care law, measurements of health care quality and the economics of the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries. The school encourages students to obtain a second major or minor in a scientific field or the school's health and society program. Study abroad and internships opportunities are also available.

  University of Pennsylvania
  3451 Walnut St.
  Philadelphia, PA 19104
  215-898-7507
  upenn.edu

Mount Mercy College

• The Roman Catholic Church established Mount Mercy College in 1928 in the eastern Iowa city of Cedar Rapids. The school is home to more than 1,400 undergraduates and received the honor of the 19th-place ranking among baccalaureate colleges in the Midwest from U.S. News and World Report in 2010. The school offers a Bachelor of Science degree in health care administration, which includes coursework in management, accounting, law, human resources, health service issues, nonprofit management, public policy and business statistics. The program allows students to subspecialize in nursing home administration if they choose. All students must complete courses in religious studies in order to graduate.

  Mount Mercy College
  1330 Elmhurst Drive Northeast
  Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
  319-368-6460
  mtmercy.edu

University of Washington

• Located in Seattle, the University of Washington is a public institution with nearly 30,000 undergraduate students, approximately 80 percent of whom are residents of Washington, reports the 2009 Barron's Profiles of American Colleges. The college received the 42nd place ranking among national universities from the U.S. News and World Report magazine in 2010. The university features a master of health care administration degree in both a traditional full-time format and a part-time version designed for executives in the health care industry. The program incorporates courses in insurance and risk management, health care planning, group dynamics and team leadership, health economics and finance, health care informatics and business law. Students in the traditional program typically complete an internship as a part of their course of study. A limited number of fellowship and teaching assistantships are available for students in the program.

  University of Washington
  1117 NE Boat St.
  Seattle, WA 98195
  206-543-9686
  washington.edu