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.
- Context of healthcare system
- Understand how decisions are made within the private, non-profit, and government sectors; understand connections across these sectors
- Have a broad knowledge of legal and economic contexts for health administration
- Leadership/professionalism
- Develop verbal and written communication and negotiation skills
- Understand the principles of effective management leadership
- Develop skills in relationship/team building
- Understand unique criteria of ethical standards and values for the profession
- Understand the process of organizational development and change management
- Decision Making (Strategic Management and Operations Management)
- Understand the principles of effective recruitment and personnel management
- Be able to identify the most appropriate business strategies, develop business plans around these strategies, and follow through with effective project management
- Be sensitive to diversity in the population and its implications for health care delivery
- Technical skills
- Quantitative
- 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
- Develop analytic skills for effective decision making, including, economics and management science
- Financial
- Have a command of the basic skills of accounting and financial management (e.g., prepare and manage budgets)
- Understand principles of sound capital investment decisions
- Information Technology
- Understand and appreciate how information technology supports business and clinical security and issues
- Quantitative
- Self-Development
- Self-Assessment
- External Measurement
Last Updated: February, 2014.