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Master's in Healthcare Administration Program Overview

Healthcare administrators play a vital role in today's shifting healthcare paradigm – they ensure equitable quality and access to the best care through leadership. By earning your online Master of Science in Healthcare Administration, you'll boost your qualifications to fill critical roles within healthcare organizations and advance your career in this vital industry.

Healthcare is a booming field. If you've set your sights on a leadership role in the healthcare field, but aren't interested in a clinical position, then a career in healthcare administration could be for you. Healthcare managers have the unique responsibility of combining best business standards with highly focused principles, concepts, systems and practices of the healthcare industry. It's a role that takes a combination of organizational leadership and strategic vision balanced with skillful collaboration among internal and external stakeholders.

At Southern New Hampshire University, you'll receive the formal healthcare education necessary to advance your skills and complement your experience within the complex field of health administration. The master's in healthcare administration online program covers a variety of topics, including:

• Finance and economics
• Law
• Policy
• Informatics
• Strategic planning

SNHU provides students with a diverse array of accredited healthcare and nursing degree programs. Our online MS in Healthcare Administration broadens our offering in this vital area, providing a more in-depth study of the healthcare industry for those ready to take the next step in their careers.

Learn how to:

• Demonstrate interpersonal skills, collaborative practices and cultural competence through verbal and written communication
• Use principles of management to advance organizational development, promote effective use of human resources, enhance operations and give organizational direction by applying market analysis
• Use financial principles to monitor, analyze and interpret data for decision-making and strategic planning
• Assess the effectiveness, use and integration of information management systems within organizations
• Explain the U.S. healthcare delivery system, healthcare reimbursement, health policy, governance and ethical considerations to promote population health and strategic planning at the organizational level
• Use epidemiological and statistical principles to support strategic planning, operations management and continuous quality improvement

Experiential Learning

While different than the accelerated nursing program option, eligible students will have the opportunity to complete these HEaRT Challenges and, upon successful completion, transfer them in as graduate level credit applied to specific courses.