Program Overview
The Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Healthcare Administration online program enhances your leadership and management skills as you learn to develop and apply a solid foundation of business concepts specific to the healthcare setting.
Our MBA in Healthcare Administration equips you with the industry insights that are essential to advance in this growing field. Learn and apply the critical skills you need for roles such as medical and health services manager, medical practice manager, quality assurance manager, hospital administrator, risk manager, sales manager/director, and communications director in healthcare organizations.
The supportive and highly connected faculty at SOU shares its expertise in ways that yield real-world relevance. Learn and prepare to embrace the latest challenges in healthcare administration.
In the MBA with a Concentration in Healthcare Administration online program, you will:
- explore key topics in the organizational and operational systems of healthcare management,
- gain an understanding of the latest technology as it pertains to patient care and effective communication in healthcare organizations,
- engage and communicate clearly with other healthcare administrators, staff, patients, their families, and the community,
- investigate relevant healthcare topics in the United States and assess their impact on patients,
- examine the role of information systems in contemporary healthcare settings, and
- study fundamental concepts of microeconomics as a means of understanding and analyzing business problems.
Courses
In order to earn the Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Healthcare Administration online, you must complete 13 courses (45 credit hours), comprised of 33 credit hours of core courses (including a capstone course) and 12 credit hours of electives. All courses are seven weeks in length.
To see the full list of MBA with a Concentration in Healthcare Administration courses online, view courses.
Admissions
As an applicant for the Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Healthcare Administration online degree program, you must hold a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution, with transcripts verifying a cumulative undergraduate GPA of at least 3.0 (or 2.75 with three years of relevant work experience) to achieve full admission status. You must submit a resume with three professional references.
To learn more about the MBA with a Concentration in Healthcare Administration online admission requirements, view admissions.
Tuition
As a student in the Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Healthcare Administration online degree program, you can pay for each course as you enroll. There is a $60 application fee and a $75 graduation fee. Costs are the same for students in Oregon or from outside the state.
To learn more about our MBA with a Concentration in Healthcare Administration online tuition, view tuition.
Calendar
With multiple start dates each year, the Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Healthcare Administration online degree program is convenient and accessible. Before starting, you should consider application date deadlines, turn in all required documentation and fees, register for classes, and pay tuition to begin on your desired start date.
To see the full calendar of upcoming start dates for the MBA with a Concentration in Healthcare Administration online, view calendar.
Also available:
- Master of Business Administration General Online
- Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Accounting Online
- Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Business Analytics Online
- Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Marketing Online
- Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Finance Online
Courses
The Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Healthcare Administration online curriculum is comprised of 13 courses (45 credit hours), including 33 credit hours of core courses and 12 credit hours of electives.
You must take the following courses.
MBA 512: Marketing Management and Strategies
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Students learn how to plan and implement effective marketing strategies through case analysis and research in strategic applications. Emphasizes best practices to successfully address marketing challenges faced by actual businesses.
MBA 514: Strategic Operations Management
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 4
Students apply contemporary operations management techniques and tools to realistic business situations. Case studies and computer-based models are utilized as decision-making tools. Educational Testing Services (ETS) MBA Major Field Test is administered in this course.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Examines the role of information systems (IS) in contemporary business organizations. Provides an overview of key information systems and technologies. Emphasizes the management behavior, knowledge, and skills necessary to participate in making decisions about information systems. Also introduces current trends and drivers, including emerging technologies that affect the present and future of information systems.
MBA 516: Managerial Accounting for Decision Making
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 4
Explores the accounting function of an organization from a managerial perspective. Students gain an understanding of cost characteristics, cash flows and reporting; the appropriate application of costs in decision–making; and the behavioral ramifications and interdependency of accounting within the organization as a whole.
MBA 519: Graduate Research Project
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Focuses on the roles and techniques of research in retail, service, community, and industry settings. Research methods and procedures such as design, data collection, analysis, and recommendations are applied to an actual organizational situation.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 4
Explores fundamental concepts of microeconomics (market equilibrium, firm and consumer behavior, and industry structure and competition) as a means of understanding and analyzing business problems. Basic macroeconomic models are developed to help explain long-run trends and short-run fluctuations in key macroeconomic variables: GDP, inflation, interest rates, wage and profit rates, and budget deficits. Applies the basic principles of finance theory to decisions facing the corporate manager.
MBA 521: Legal and Ethical Issues in Business and Management
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Acquaints students with fundamental legal concepts affecting organizations through case studies and guest speakers. Concepts are discussed within a general managerial framework with distinctions made for private, nonprofit, and governmental entities. Major topics covered include tort liability, contracts and legal agreements, intellectual property rights, administrative law, individual liability, and legal economics/ADR applications. Management law covered includes employment issues such as wrongful non-hiring and termination, discrimination, ADA (disabilities), sexual harassment, and similar issues.
MBA 575: Advanced Organizational Behavior
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Explores individual behavior, group behavior, and organizational systems. Topics covered (from theoretical and practical perspectives) include understanding people, motivation, group dynamics, communication, leadership, power, politics, conflict, diversity, culture, decision making, change, and organizational structure.
MBA 585: Financial Management Practices
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Explores essential financial theory and develops applications in the areas of valuation of assets, financing decisions, risk assessment, and short-term asset and liability management. Develops the abilities to compare and value uncertain cash flows; evaluate the costs and risks of financing from stocks, bonds, and entrepreneurial sources; and manage short-term capital.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
The capstone course is intended to provide an experience that integrates the MBA coursework using intensive business cases and analysis.
You must take the following courses.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 4
Reviews the theory and practice of quality improvement, with an emphasis on modeling of business processes, development of decision support tools, and performance measurement.
MBA 536: Advanced Health Communication
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 4
Explores communication in healthcare organizations. The course uses both a theoretical and applied approach to topics key to healthcare administrators, including communicating with patients and families, emotions (such as stress) in the workplace, new technology in healthcare organizations, crisis communication, and ethics.
MBA 537: Healthcare in the United States: Structures, Systems, and Policies
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 4
Engages key issues related to the organization and operations of the US healthcare system. The healthcare system in the United States is one of complexities due to the vast number of components that are central to its functioning. Regulators, payers, providers, consumers and suppliers all contribute to the system where higher spending does not necessarily equate to better healthcare outcomes.
Admissions
It’s time to begin! The admission process is the first step toward earning your online degree. Familiarize yourself with these requirements for the Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Healthcare Administration online program, along with information on required documents.
MBA with a Concentration in Healthcare Administration Online Requirements
- Applicants with a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution and transcripts verifying a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale are granted full admission status into the MBA with a Concentration in Healthcare Administration online degree program.
- Applicants with a minimum GPA of 2.75 qualify for full admission status by submitting a resume verifying three years of relevant work experience.
- Provisional admission status is available for applicants with an undergraduate GPA lower than 2.75 who have three years of relevant work experience. Students admitted on a provisional basis must earn a B or better in courses taken during their first term in order to continue in the program.
- Applicants must submit transcripts from all previous educational institutions attended, along with a resume and three professional references.
- International student applicants interested in enrolling in the SOU online Master of Business Administration program should contact the Office of International Programs for information related to international admissions and visa restrictions.
- Contact the Office of International Programs by emailing intprogs@sou.edu
- Southern Oregon University considers you an international student if you are NOT a:
- U.S. citizen or national;
- U.S. permanent resident or other eligible noncitizen.
- Graduate Admission Requirements for International Students:
- Applicants must have a bachelor's degree equivalent to a four-year U.S. bachelor's degree from a recognized university in that country.
- Transcripts from all colleges and universities attended, documents must be official and include an English translation. Applicants are required to have documents mailed to SOU in a sealed envelope from the school, which have not been opened.
- SOU will not accept scans, faxes, photocopies, or already opened documents.
- TOEFL or IELTS score
- If English is not your native language, you will need to submit a TOEFL or IELTS score.
- You do not need to submit a score if you earned a bachelor's or master's degree from a U.S. college/university or completed your education in a native English-speaking country.
If you need to submit official documents by mail, send them to:
SOU Admissions Department1250 Siskiyou Blvd.
Ashland, OR 97520
Have a question? Call us at 800-490-7974.
[close-]Tuition
The following is the tuition breakdown for the Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Healthcare Administration online. Tuition is the same for in-state and out-of-state students.
| Program | Per Credit Hour | Per 3-Credit Hour | Per 4-Credit Hour | Per Program |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Healthcare Administration | $430 | $1,290 | $1,720 | $19,350* |
Note: SOU credit hours are quarter hours. 45 SOU hours = 30 semester credit hours
*Tuition and fees are subject to change.
Note: You will be charged a $75 graduation fee and an $80 course fee for the ETS Major Field Test in MBA 514. Proctoring fees, if required, are not included.
[close-]Calendar
The Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Healthcare Administration online program is structured for working professionals, and conveniently features multiple start dates each year. Choose the start date that's best for you.
| Session | Program Start Date | Application Deadline | Document Deadline | Registration Deadline | Payment Due | Last Class Day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 1 | Sept. 30, 2019 | Sept. 16, 2019 | Sept. 23, 2019 | Sept. 25, 2019 | Sept. 27, 2019 | Nov. 17, 2019 |
| Winter 1 | Jan. 6, 2020 | Dec. 23, 2019 | Dec. 30, 2019 | Jan. 1, 2020 | Jan. 3, 2020 | Feb. 23, 2020 |
| Spring 1 | Mar. 30, 2020 | Mar. 16, 2020 | Mar. 23, 2020 | Mar. 25, 2020 | Mar. 27, 2020 | May 17, 2020 |
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