Students

Required Courses

The MHA curriculum requires 35 credit hours. Most students complete the curriculum over two academic years. We offer the flexibility needed to students who may want to take less classes each semester and therefore take longer to graduate.

The two-year plan of study with an August start is the following:

Fall Semester of Year 1 (10 credits total)

  • HPML 522: Introduction to Data Analytics for Health Administration (3 credits)
  • HPML 575: Health Insurance and Revenue Cycle (3 credits)
  • HPML 582: Managing Quality Improvement in Healthcare (3 credits)
  • HPML 596: Graduate Seminar (1 credit)

Spring Semester of Year 1 (10 credits total)

  • HPML 523: Healthcare Finance (3 credits)
  • HPML 555: Health Services Project Management (3 credits)
  • PUBH 540: Leading and Managing Health Organizations (3 credits)
  • HPML 596: Graduate Seminar (1 credit)

Summer of Year 1 (1 credit)

  • HPML 626: Internship (1 credit)

Fall Semester of Year 2 (7 credits)

  • HPML 556: Managerial Epidemiology and Strategy (3 credits)
  • HPML 510: Health Economics (3 credits)
  • HPML 696: Graduate Seminar (1 credit)

Spring Semester of Year 2 (7 credits)

  • HPML 601: Health Policy, Law, and Ethics (3 credits)
  • HPML 659: Comprehensive Experience in Healthcare Management
  • HPML 696: Graduate Seminar (1 credit)

Students who join the MHA program without any knowledge of the U.S. health sector are required to take a pre-requisite course during their first semester in the program--HPML 502: U.S. Healthcare Organization and Delivery (3 credits). Students with no background in accounting, finance or healthcare data are asked to take a pre-requisite in accounting during their first semester in the program--ACCT 201: Principle of Accounting (3 credits).

Teaching and Learning Methods

Our curriculum focuses on an active and real-world learning experience. Faculty and students are highly engaged with practitioners inside and outside of the classroom. Students learn by actively engaging with the materials through case studies, teamwork, healthcare data, consulting projects, presentations, discussions, reflective learning, case competition participation and interactions with guest speakers. Our program offers diverse and impactful external field experiences, such as site visits, internships, conference attendances, being paired with a mentor who is a health executive or administrator, and participation in networking events.