Health Care Administration
Major
Bachelor of Arts
Do you wonder what it takes to keep our healthcare systems running? How do healthcare organizations operate in syncopation with their many entities? As a Health Care Administration student, your foundational courses will cover the business and management side of health care, but also the policies, complexities, and ethics concerning human needs in the modern healthcare world. In this ever-changing and rapidly growing industry, your experience will build your critical thinking and problem-solving skills to present solutions to emerging issues that make a real difference in peoples’ lives and health.
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Health Care Administration Degree
Program Highlight
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Travel to Ghana to learn the health systems of other parts of the world. Through this travel JanTerm, you will have the opportunity to learn about healthcare treatment, diagnosis, education, access, and training in a health care facility that performs some of the most complex surgeries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Finish in Four*
with the skills to launch your career
Contributing to shaping the future
of health care will require you to strengthen your communication skills, synthesis data, and collaborate with peers to bring about improvement and access. With a degree in health care administration, upon graduation you will be prepared to:
- recognize the impact of health policies and regulations on both individual and population health and communicate health information to a wide range of audiences through an array of media;
- identify, evaluate, and communicate scientific information related to public health and health care issues; and
- develop appropriate professional behaviors and demonstrate the capacity for leadership roles in health care organizations.
Explore our Graduate Outcomes to learn more about what our graduates are doing today.
Meet our Faculty
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Popular Courses
- Healthcare Administration
- Financial Accounting
- Health Management and Policy
- Health Economics
- Fundamentals of Public Health
- Health Care Law
- Business Analytics
- Ethics and Medicine