MBA and Certificate in Health Services Administration
Description
The MBA is designed to accommodate the career needs of professionals across a wide variety of work organizations: business, health care, industrial, educational, and governmental. Through a MBA and Certificate in Health Services Administration, students are prepared for managing a patient focused organization in an ever-changing and increasingly complex business. The program accommodates both current health care professionals who wish to establish themselves as partners with the business staff in the health care environment and business professionals currently in or moving into the health care environment.
The programs are offered cooperatively between the College of Health Professions and the College of Business Administration. The programs are designed for clinicians and others with minimal formal business training, including doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, lab technicians, medical office staff, etc. For the non-health care professional, the Certificate in Health Services Administration provides additional study about the health care environment, providing a stronger basis for obtaining employment in a health care business setting.
- Health care practitioners need knowledge and experience beyond clinical expertise to manage effectively at the enterprise level.
- There is a growing need for clinical credibility combined with managerial and administrative excellence.
- Effective management in a health care environment requires an understanding of health care policy and reimbursement, financial principles and best practices for marketing, operations and information technology.
- An MBA establishes clinicians as full partners with business staff in preparing to operate in a changing health care environment.
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Admission Requirements
The MBA program is open to students of high promise who have earned a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university. No prior academic work in business is required. Admission decisions are based on undergraduate grade point average (GPA), work experience, post graduate studies, and recommendations, and GMAT (if needed). The Certificate in Health Services Administration requires a separate application to the College of Health Professions. Admission criteria to the Certificate in Health Services Administration differ from the MBA program admission criteria. For questions or assistance regarding the application process to the Certificate in Health Services Administration, contact the MHSA program director via e-mail at hsaprogram@udmercy.edu.
Admission Materials for MBA
Admission decisions are based on an undergraduate GPA, GMAT score (if needed), work experience, and other degrees.
- Complete the Online Application (application fee is waived);
- Official transcripts for all previous academic work;
- A resume;
- Letter of Recommendation (included in the online application); and
- Applicants are welcome to include any other information they feel is important to the admission consideration. This information can be uploaded while completing the online application.
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Requirements for the Master of Business Administration (33 credits)