Health Services Administration, M.H.A.

Core Courses

All Health Services Administration students must complete the 33 semester credit hours specified below:

• HSAD 5103 - Health Care Organization Behavior & Management Theories *
• HSAD 5113 - Health Care Financial Management I
• HSAD 5133 - Health Systems Engineering and Quantitative Methods
• HSAD 5143 - Health Care and Personnel Law
• HSAD 5163 - Capstone: Health Administrative Problems
• HSAD 5203 - Health Care Marketing and Microeconomics
• HSAD 5213 - Health Services Operational and Strategic Management
• HSAD 5223 - Health Informatics
• HSAD 5253 - Health Services Research
• HSAD 5293 - Managerial Epidemiology and Biostatistics
• HSAD 6063 - Graduate Seminar in Advanced Research **

Electives:

12 semester credits of elective courses are to be defined by the student and the advisor, based on the student’s desired career goals and their concentration area.

Written Comprehensive Examination

All MHA students must complete and successfully pass a written comprehensive examination in the semester in which they intend to graduate. A student who fails the comprehensive examination may be allowed one retake of the exam. The student will be notified by the Program Coordinator and/or the student’s advisor if a retake is permitted. This retake cannot be completed until the next semester and will be comprised of new questions. If a student fails the retake of the examination, his/her degree candidacy will be terminated.

Note:

Leveling Course: Required for all conditionally admitted students, along with the cores noted above: HSAD 5013 - Health Services Administration Foundations*

*Must be taken the first full academic semester it is offered upon starting in the program.

**Taken only after completing at least 30 semester credit hours and HSAD 5253 .

Students who have earned a bachelor’s degree, but who are not enrolled in the MHA program, may elect to complete the Health Services Administration Graduate Certificate  offered by the department.