Health Administration MHA
Major: Health Administration
Degree Awarded: Master of Health Administration (MHA)
Calendar Type: Quarter
Minimum Required Credits: 45.0
Co-op Option: None
Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code: 51.0701
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code: 11-9111
About the Program
The Master of Health Administration program consists of 10 core courses, one on-site residency and two elective courses for a total of 45.0-46.0 credits. All courses, except for the residency, will be conducted online through Drexel University Online. The residency, based at Drexel University's University City campus, is designed to provide students with a full master's level collaborative experience with on-campus and/or community activities and the experience of working directly with health care or public health service organizations to improve the planning, delivery and evaluation of these services. Students will be prepared for leadership roles in health-related businesses or organizations.
The program is designed for experienced health care professionals seeking to explore the three areas of health leadership - transformation, execution and people. The program's curriculum is grounded in the business of health care with every class focusing on real-life application to some aspect of the health care industry. The curriculum is led by experienced on-campus faculty and addresses three core areas:
- Business of Health Management
- Health Methodologies
- Healthcare Policy and Health System
Students collaborate to produce an Applied Management Project which will be assigned in groups as a culminating project for the program. In this project, students will apply management tools and/or research tools to address particular administrative challenges, assuring that students think at an organizational level and use particular strategies to respond to change.
In addition to the content of the Applied Management Project, self-confidence and self-development are integrated in the management courses and the on-campus portion of the program, which encourages self-reflection, application of theoretical perspectives and synthesis of data and management tools. In the online portion of the course, students engage in threaded discussions with classmates about their completed projects.
This curriculum is designed to help students achieve their goals on a timeline that fits their lifestyle and allows a student to graduate in 18 months up to three years. Students also have the option to enter during the fall or spring term.
Additional Information
For more information about this program, please contact CNHPAdvising@drexel.edu.
Degree Requirements
| REQUIRED COURSES | ||
| HSAD 500 | Historical Influences on the US Healthcare System | 4.0 |
| HSAD 501 | Managerial Epidemiology | 3.0 |
| HSAD 505 | Ethical and Legal Issues in Healthcare Management and Policy | 4.0 |
| HSAD 515 | Practice issues in Healthcare Management | 4.0 |
| HSAD 522 | Applied Management Project | 4.0 |
| HSAD 525 | National Health Expenditures | 4.0 |
| HSAD 530 | Politics and Policy of Healthcare Resources | 4.0 |
| HSAD 540 | Resources, Recruitment and Retention in Healthcare | 4.0 |
| HSAD 550 | Strategic Planning for Healthcare Administration | 4.0 |
| IPS 564 | The Business of Healthcare | 3.0 |
| ELECTIVE COURSES (Choice of 2) | 7.0-8.0 | |
| Intro to Long Term Care & Post Acute Care Admin | ||
| Aging & Disability Policy in the US | ||
| Advanced Healthcare Marketing | ||
| Risk Management | ||
| Group Dynamics & Leadership in Health Care Management | ||
| Global Health and Management Issues | ||
| Evaluation and Assessment of Healthcare Systems | ||
| Comparative Health Systems | ||
| Total Credits | 45.0-46.0 | |
Sample Plan of Study
Two Year Sample Plan of Study FALL ADMISSION
| First Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| HSAD 501 | 3.0 | HSAD 500 | 4.0 | HSAD 515 | 4.0 | HSAD 522** | 4.0 |
| HSAD 505 | 4.0 | Elective * | 3.0-4.0 | HSAD 550 | 4.0 | HSAD 540 | 4.0 |
| 7 | 7-8 | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Second Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | ||||
| HSAD 525 | 4.0 | IPS 564 | 3.0 | ||||
| HSAD 530 | 4.0 | Elective | 4.0 | ||||
| 8 | 7 | ||||||
| Total Credits 45-46 | |||||||
- *
Student is able to take one 3-credit elective only
- **
Course is typically delivered intensively as a residential course in week 1 of Summer Quarter
Three Year Sample Plan of Study FALL ADMISSION
| First Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| HSAD 505 | 4.0 | HSAD 500 | 4.0 | HSAD 550 | 4.0 | Elective | 4.0 |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Second Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| HSAD 501 | 3.0 | HSAD 530 | 4.0 | HSAD 515 | 4.0 | HSAD 522** | 4.0 |
| Elective * | 3.0-4.0 | ||||||
| 3 | 4 | 4 | 7-8 | ||||
| Third Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | ||
| HSAD 525 | 4.0 | IPS 564 | 3.0 | HSAD 540 | 4.0 | ||
| 4 | 3 | 4 | |||||
| Total Credits 45-46 | |||||||
- *
Student is able to take one 3-credit elective only
- **
Course is typically delivered intensively as a residential course in week 1 of Summer Quarter
Two Year Sample Plan of Study SPRING ADMISSION
| First Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits | ||||
| HSAD 501 | 3.0 | HSAD 500 | 4.0 | ||||
| HSAD 505 | 4.0 | Elective | 4.0 | ||||
| 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Second Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| HSAD 525 | 4.0 | IPS 564 | 3.0 | HSAD 515 | 4.0 | HSAD 522** | 4.0 |
| HSAD 530 | 4.0 | Elective | 3.0-4.0 | HSAD 550 | 4.0 | HSAD 540 | 4.0 |
| 8 | 6-7 | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Total Credits 45-46 | |||||||
Three Year Sample Plan of Study SPRING ADMISSION
| First Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits | ||||
| HSAD 505 | 4.0 | HSAD 500 | 4.0 | ||||
| 4 | 4 | ||||||
| Second Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| HSAD 501 | 3.0 | Elective | 4.0 | HSAD 540 | 4.0 | HSAD 550 | 4.0 |
| 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Third Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| IPS 564 | 3.0 | HSAD 525 | 4.0 | HSAD 515 | 4.0 | HSAD 522** | 4.0 |
| Elective | 3.0-4.0 | ||||||
| 3 | 4 | 4 | 7-8 | ||||
| Fourth Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | ||||||
| HSAD 530 | 4.0 | ||||||
| 4 | |||||||
| Total Credits 45-46 | |||||||
Note: Some terms are less than the 4.5-credit minimum required (considered half-time status) of graduate programs to be considered financial aid eligible. As a result, aid will not be disbursed to students during these terms.
Program Level Outcomes
Upon completion of the program, graduates will be prepared to:
- Describe methods for summarizing health and epidemiological data and use those methods to analyze statistical data sets.
- Identify ethical principles relevant to health care systems to analyze health care or health administrative issues based on these principles.
- Analyze which method of quality management is most appropriate given a specific health care environment.
- Apply economic concepts and economic analysis to examine health care expenditures in the delivery of health services propose solutions based on the results.
- Describe the major components of organizational structure (e.g., structure, vision, mission) and identify how they affect health care business and apply tools in human resources management to health care environment (e.g., employee selection, training and development, performance management and performance appraisal) in the context of current legal responsibilities.
- Apply the appropriate financial management tools in a health care delivery system, for the purpose of planning, budgeting and financial analysis.
- Describe the major components of a healthcare organization’s strategic planning process, apply appropriate environmental assessments and identify key components of market analysis.
- Conduct policy analysis on current health policy issues based on the role of all branches of government and the role of regulation at federal, state and local authority in health matters, including environmental health and workplace safety.
- Identify the political, legal and regulatory factors that presented avenues and obstacles for health care delivery, explain the importance of the historical foundation of American values, culture and norms in the evolution of health care system changes and discuss the implications of the historical events and patterns on the health of the US population.