Graduate Programs
Student Learning Outcomes
Master of Health Administration (M.H.A.)
Upon completion of this Master's program, graduates will have acquired competencies in several domains.
- Background information on the health care system
- Understand an organization's place within the health care system and the larger community.
- Understand how decisions are made within the private, non-profit and government sectors; understand connections across these sectors.
- Leadership/professionalism
- Develop verbal and written communication and negotiation skills.
- Understand the principles of effective human resource management.
- Develop skills in relationship/team building.
- Develop an awareness of ethical standards for the profession.
- Human resource management
- Understand the principles of effective recruitment and personnel management.
- Health Law/ethics
- Have a broad understanding of legal context for health administration.
- Have a broad understanding of the values and ethics that underpin health care administration.
- Be sensitive to diversity in the population and its implications for health care delivery.
- Quantitative Skills
- Have a basic working knowledge of statistical analysis.
- Be able to measure and assess health status and health risks.
- Evaluate health care process improvements and performance.
- Financial Skills
- Have a command of the basic skills of accounting and financial management (e.g., prepare and manage budgets).
- Understand principles of sound investment decisions.
- Information Skills
- Understand the principles of information management, including security.
- Know sources for administrative and clinical information as appropriate for health care management and lifelong learning.
- Decision Making
- Develop analytic skills for effective decision making, including economics and management science.
- Implementing Change
- Understand the process of organizational development.
- Be able to identify the most appropriate business strategies, develop business plans around these strategies, and follow through with effective project management.
- Understand the principles of effective marketing.
- Personal Development
- talent development
- initiative
- innovative thinking