Health Administration (MHA) at University of Southern California

Programme overview

A degree building managerial, analytical and public policy skills for health care leadership, covering five areas of competence: management/operations/leadership, health policy analysis, health finance, health information technology and health care quality. Students specialize in two areas. Evening and intensive workshop-format classes accommodate working professionals, and a Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine pathway requires 36 units.

Faculty: Price School of Public Policy | Duration: 2 years full-time; 48 units plus residency | Study mode: full-time | Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States

What you will study

40 required units (e.g. Financial Management of Health Services, Legal Issues in Health Care Delivery, Strategic Management of Health Organizations, Quality of Care Concepts, Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Analytics and Operations for Healthcare Management) plus 8 elective units in two specialization areas, and a supervised 1,000-hour residency in a health care organization (reducible to at least 500 hours depending on experience).

Career pathways

Management positions in hospitals, managed care systems, physician groups, ambulatory care systems, government agencies, and health care consulting, finance and evaluation firms.

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Entry requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, a minimum 3.0 undergraduate GPA and GRE scores of at least 500 verbal and 500 quantitative, with deviations allowed for exceptional work experience, recommendations or improved performance in the third and fourth undergraduate years. Statistics prerequisite: an undergraduate inferential statistics course with a B or better within three years of matriculation, or completion of PPD 504 Essential Statistics for Public Management with a C or better before enrollment.

Duration: 2 years full-time; 48 units plus residency

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