Health Services Administration, M.H.A.

Core Courses

All Health Services Administration students must complete the 30 semester credit hours specified below:

• HSAD 5013 - Health Services Administration Foundations
• HSAD 5103 - Health Care Organization Behavior & Management Theories
• HSAD 5113 - Health Care Financial Management I

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• HSAD 5133 - Health Systems Engineering and Quantitative Methods

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• RADS 6553 - Graduate Data Analysis in Radiologic Sciences

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• HSAD 5143 - Health Care and Personnel Law

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• RADS 5023 - Legal and Regulatory Considerations in Radiologic Sciences

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• 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 6063 - Graduate Seminar in Advanced Research **

Electives:

Complete 3 hours from the courses specified below:

• HSAD 5123 - Health Care Personnel
• HSAD 5153 - Managed Care Organizational Structure in the 21st Century
• HSAD 5273 - Health Care Ethics
• HSAD 5283 - Health Care Financial Management II
• HSAD 5293 - Managerial Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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

**Taken after completing 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.