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Become a Leading Force in Medical Organizations with Our Master’s in Healthcare Administration Degree (Online MHA)
Liberty University’s Master of Science in Healthcare Administration (MHA) degree is an affordable, flexible, 100% online degree program. The demand for healthcare practitioners has never been higher and with increased clinical demands comes increased administrative opportunities. Our online master’s in healthcare administration will equip you with an understanding of informatics, public health, and nursing disciplines.
Through this program, you will learn how to add value to your organization, as well as make informed decisions regarding strategic planning, business management techniques, and financial models and principles. You will be prepared to enter the healthcare field with leadership and management skills essential to be successful in healthcare administration.
Our online MHA professors are excited to work with you during your journey to becoming an expert in the field of healthcare administration. As a leader in healthcare, it will be your duty to oversee the success of your organization. This can be accomplished through your newly gained skills in strategic management, understanding health policy and ethics, and the ability to manage human capital.
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Why Choose Our Online Master’s in Healthcare Administration?
Liberty’s online MHA program is an excellent way to earn your degree while staying active in your current schedule. We know that our students choose the master’s in healthcare administration online program with various career goals in mind. Because we value your passions, our online MHA degree gives you the opportunity to personalize your degree with an area of study. With more than ten unique areas of study, you can customize your degree in an area of administration that aligns best with your career goals. Whether you are interested in the financial, managerial, or marketing side of healthcare administration, Liberty’s MHA online degree program will equip you with the in-demand skills you need to thrive in the area of study you choose!
What Will You Learn in Liberty’s Online MHA Degree Program?
Our online MHA degree program is designed to sharpen your foundational knowledge, skills, and abilities in the areas of leadership and management. Courses within our master’s in healthcare administration online program will provide you with the knowledge and tools necessary to be successful in the healthcare organization by managing operations and personnel, and ensuring quality. We seek to equip you with the ability to maintain compliance with laws that affect healthcare providers, administrators, and organizations.
Coursework in our master’s in healthcare administration online degree is intentionally designed to create healthcare administrators within both public and private health organizations. Each course created specifically for our master’s in healthcare administration seeks to pull from you the skills and abilities for organizational value creation, strategic planning employing high-performance business management techniques and utilizing financial models and principles to make evidence-based decisions within the context of the modern healthcare environment.
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Online MHA Specializations
Customize your degree with one of our healthcare administration specializations. You can explore information about each specialization in the list below.
Accounting
Liberty University’sMaster of Science in Healthcare Administration – Accounting 100% online program combines diverse course material from the business, informatics, public health, and nursing disciplines. With a focus on accounting, this program seamlessly equips you to meet the administrative and financial analysis needs, in the healthcare field. These skills will prepare you to identify and address a variety of healthcare administrative concerns.
Featured Courses
- ACCT 650 – Corporate Governance and Fraudulent Financial Reporting
- BUSI 505 – Healthcare Informatics
- BUSI 532 – Advanced Financial Statement Analysis
- BUSI 536 – Mergers and Acquisition
Potential Career Options
- Healthcare accounting supervisor
- Budget analyst
- Management analyst
- Financial planning analyst
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Finance
Liberty University’sMaster of Science in Healthcare Administration – Finance 100% online program combines diverse course material from the business, informatics, public health, and nursing disciplines. Focusing in the area of finance, you will build a competitiverésuméof practical tools and skills which will give you an edge in addressing a variety of financial and economic analysis needs, healthcare concerns, and administrative situations.
Featured Courses
- BUSI 523 – Financial Analysis and Decision Making in Healthcare
- BUSI 532 – Financial Statement Analysis
- BUSI 534 – Business Valuation
- BUSI 536 – Mergers and Acquisition
Potential Career Options
- Accounts payable/receivable manager
- Claims representative
- Risk and insurance consultant
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General
Liberty University’s Master of Science in Healthcare Administration – General 100% online program will provide you with the tools and skills to address a variety of healthcare concerns that originate in administration. This will be accomplished through the focus on leadership, management, and ethics in health that will balance your passion for people and your desire to impact the healthcare world.
Featured Courses
- BUSI 506 – Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals
- BUSI 528 – Strategic Management and Marketing for Health Professionals
- BUSI 691 – Healthcare Administration Capstone
- HLTH 553 – Grant Acquisition and Management
Potential Career Options
- Healthcare administrator
- Management consultant
- Medical services manager
- Nonprofit organization director
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Human Resources
Liberty University’sMaster of Science in Healthcare Administration – Human Resources 100% online program combines diverse course material from the business, informatics, public health, and nursing disciplines. You will explore contemporary issues within the human resource field. Based on your knowledge and training in current healthcare policies and best practices, you will be equipped to identify and address a variety of healthcare administrative concerns.
Featured Courses
- BUSI 643 – Workforce Planning and Employment
- BUSI 644 – Human Resources Development
- BUSI 645 – Compensation Management
- NURS 501 – Health Policy and Ethics
Potential Career Options
- Corporate health director
- Nursing director
- Practice administrator
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Leadership
Liberty University’sMaster of Science in Healthcare Administration – Leadership 100% online program combines diverse course material from the business, informatics, public health, and nursing disciplines. You will learn how to influence organizational change within healthcare, while exploring current healthcare policy and best practices, to identify and address a variety of healthcare administrative concerns.
Featured Courses
- BUSI 502 – Servant Leadership
- BUSI 503 – Leadership Theory
- BUSI 619 – Quality Assessment and Evidence-Based Decision Making
- MGMT 501 – Executive Leadership and Management
Potential Career Options
- Clinical director
- Medical services manager
- Mental health program manager
- Nurse manager
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Marketing
Liberty University’sMaster of Science in Healthcare Administration – Marketing, 100% online program, combines diverse course material from the business, informatics, public health, and nursing disciplines. This program expounds upon key aspects of marketing in healthcare. Based on your knowledge and training in current healthcare policies and best practices, you will be equipped to identify and address a variety of healthcare marketing concerns.
Featured Courses
- BUSI 520 – Strategic Marketing Management
- BUSI 612 – Marketing Promotions
- MRKT 670 – Brand Management
- BUSI 528 – Strategic Management and Marketing for Health Professionals
Potential Career Options
- Advertising manager
- Promotions manager
- Market research analyst
- Medical services manager
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Nonprofit Management
Liberty University’sMaster of Science in Healthcare Administration – Non-Profit Leadership and Management 100% online program combines diverse course material from the business, informatics, public health, and nursing disciplines. This program is designed to provide training in the leadership of the community and non-profit health organizations. Based on your knowledge and training in current healthcare policies and best practices, you will be equipped to identify and address a variety of non-profit healthcare concerns.
Featured Courses
- BUSI 511 – Healthcare Administration
- COMS 658 – Strategic Communication Campaigns for the Digital Age
- HLTH 553 – Grant Acquisition and Management
- MGMT 602 – Non-Profit Management
Potential Career Options
- Compliance manager
- Clinical research coordinator
- Non-profit director
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Project Management
Liberty University’sMaster of Science in Healthcare Administration – Project Management 100% online program combines diverse course material from the business, informatics, public health, and nursing disciplines. The valuable skills you gain through this program will give you an edge as a healthcare executive and allow you to better identify and address all facets of a project.
Featured Courses
- BUSI 611 – Operations Management for Health Organizations
- BUSI 680 – Project Management I
- BUSI 681 – Project Management II
- BUSI 682 – Global Project Management
Potential Career Options
- Operations manager
- Project scheduler
- Regulatory consultant
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Public Administration
Liberty University’s 100% online Master of Science in Healthcare Administration – Public Administration is designed to provide you with advanced training in health services and healthcare administration. In pursuit of this healthcare administration master’s degree, you will learn how to overcome the challenges of government administration and how public policy implementations affect healthcare organizations.
Featured Courses
- BUSI 511 – Healthcare Administration
- PADM 501 – Fundamentals of Public Administration
- PADM 530 – Politics, Strategies, and Initiatives of Community Econ. Dev
- PADM 550 – Public Policy Analysis
Potential Career Options
- Healthcare administrator
- Community health consultant
- Public health educator
- Medical and health service manager
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Public Relations
Liberty University’sMaster of Science in Healthcare Administration – Public Relations 100% online program combines course material from the business, informatics, public health, and nursing disciplines. You will engage in a comprehensive investigation of public relations theory and how to be successful in the corporate, private, and nonprofit healthcare sectors.
Featured Courses
- BUSI 528 – Strategic Management and Marketing for Health Professionals
- COMS 532 – Media Technologies and Communication Strategies
- COMS 560 – Communication and Conflict
- COMS 658 – Strategic Communication Campaigns for the Digital Age
Potential Career Options
- Community relations manager
- Fundraising manager
- Public relations specialist
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Strategic Management
Liberty University’sMaster of Science in Healthcare Administration – Strategic Management 100% online program combines diverse course material from the business, informatics, public health, and nursing disciplines. You will learn to formulate strategic planning and health care administration strategies for optimal organizational performance.
Featured Courses
- BUSI 528 – Strategic Management and Marketing for Health Professionals
- BUSI 610 – Organizational Design and Structure
- BUSI 643 – Workforce Planning and Employment
- MGMT 501 – Executive Leadership and Management
Potential Career Options
- Administrative services manager
- Community health workers
- General and operations manager
- Medical and health services manager
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Supply Chain Management and Logistics
Liberty University’sMaster of Science in Healthcare Administration – Supply Chain Management 100% online program combines diverse course material from the business, informatics, public health, and nursing disciplines. You will learn the multidisciplinary function of supply chain management focused on efficiency and cost-effectiveness. This involves the design, execution, and control of internal processes required to take a healthcare product or service from conception to final delivery.
Featured Courses
- BUSI 611 – Operations Management for Health Organizations
- BUSI 613 – Supply Chain Management
- BUSI 615 – Logistics
- BUSI 616 – Total Quality Management
Potential Career Options
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- Production manager
- Logistics programs director
- Health services manager
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Highlights of Our Online MHA Degree Program
- By earning your Master of Science in Healthcare Administration online degree from anon-profit university whose online programs ranked in the top five of more than 2,100 online colleges and universities for academic quality, affordability, and accessibility,you will be set apart from others in your field.
- Tuition for our Master of Science in Healthcare Administration degree has not increased in four straight years. While many other online colleges have raised tuition, Liberty has been able to keep costs low as a non-profit university.
- You will be granted access to a wide variety of online resources through Liberty University’s library portal throughout your pursuit of obtaining an online Master of Science in Healthcare Administration.
- You will have the ability to personalize your degree to best fit your schedule and needs.
- Students taking HLTH 553 (Grant Acquisition and Management) will have free access toFoundation Centeronce enrolled in the course.
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You will benefit from increased job opportunities in the vast field of the healthcare system.
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Our online MHA professors who have gained mastery of the content being taught from first-hand experiences.
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You will have the ability to transfer in up to 50% of your required classes from another accredited college or university.
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This degree can be completed in just two years.
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Liberty University is dedicated to providing world-class educational experiences to military students across the globe. Whether you are a current service member, discharged or retired from service, or the spouse of a service member or veteran, we are here to support you every step of the journey. As a thank you for your dedication and service to our country, Liberty is honored to serve and support you in your pursuit of online education by offering the following benefits:
- Tuition discounts –$275 for graduate(per credit hour)
- Additional discount for veterans who serve in a civilian capacity as aFirst Responder(less than $625 per course)
- Eight-week courses, eight different start dates each year, and no set log-in times
Potential Career Options in the Field of Healthcare Administration
If you think healthcare administration might be in the future for you, check out these exciting and diverse career options:
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Healthcare administrator
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Management consultant
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Medical services manager
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Nonprofit organization director
Admission Requirements for the Master of Science in Healthcare Administration Online Degree Program
Applicants must have a regionally or nationally accredited bachelor’s degree with a 3.0 or above cumulative combined GPA for admission in good standing. Please visit ouradmission requirements pagefor more detailed admissions information.
All applicants must submit the following:
- Admission application
- Application fee*
- Unofficial college transcripts can be accepted with a completed official transcript request form**
- Official college transcripts, if available
- Proof of English proficiency
*There is no upfront application fee; however, a deferred $50 application fee will be assessed during financial check-in. This fee is waived for qualifying service members, veterans, and military spouses – documentation verifying military status is required.
**An official transcript is needed within 60 days of acceptance or before non-attendance drops for the first set of matriculated classes, whichever comes first.
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Is your career goal to by the leader of a hospital, medical clinic or medical office? If so, then you should strongly consider earning an MBA in Healthcare Management. Effective healthcare administrators are very important to the successful management of all types of medical-related organizations today. See also 9+ Online MBA Healthcare Management Degrees from Non-Profits
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Because of the high level of demand for expert healthcare managers with an MBA, this speciality offers strong career growth and good salaries. In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the demand for medical and health services managers will increase by 22% by 2020. BLS also reports that the median salary in the field generally is $84,270. The top 10%, almost always with at least a master’s degree, earn more than $144,000.
BLS also reported that compensation for medical and health services managers depends somewhat on the size of the facility. For administrators in a medical practice with six or fewer doctors, the median salary was $86,459. For those with 7-25 doctors, it was $115,000, and for practices with 26+ doctors, the median salary was $150,726.
Top MBA Healthcare Management Careers and Salaries
Salaries also will vary depending on what type of healthcare management role you seek. You will find the best career options and salaries in these MBA health management jobs:
It is of great importance for a hospital to be run in as highly a cost effective manner as is possible. In a CFO role, you are responsible for managing all of the finances of your health care organization. You also are responsible for a lot of the financial plans and keeping of records. You also will need to do budgets, negotiate new contracts with vendors, figure out how to save money in the organization, and choose top executives for key hospital roles.
Median salary: $166,000
Indeed.com states that the average salary in this position is $106,000:
Work behind the scenes to make all types of health care facilities work as efficiently as is possible. Many hospital administrators work in nursing homes, hospitals or outpatient clinics. You can expect to work on hiring doctors, developing budgets, coming up with new policies for QA and patient services, promoting and implementing new sorts of medical treatments, and assuring compliance with government guidelines.
Median salary: $110,000.
Indeed.com states that the average salary in this field is $82,000. Keep in mind that that number likely includes professionals without a master’s degree:
A CFO ensures that a hospital is run in the most cost efficient manner as possible. You are mainly charged with the task of managing all financial risks for the company. You also must handle most of the planning of finances and keeping of records. You will probably need to report the financial status of the hospital to the CEO and other upper management.
Median salary: $155,000.
Indeed.com states that the average salary for hospital CFOs is $106,000:
With your healthcare management MBA, you can work as a manager in the pharmaceutical industry. There you will analyze investments, review market data, and come up with new promotions for new drugs and devices. If you are interested in this field, you should try to gain a few years of consulting experience, and also have significant leadership experience.
Median salary: $92,000.
Indeed.com states that the average salary for pharmaceutical managers is $90,000:
A medical practice manager deals with many of the same issues that a hospital administrator does, but on a smaller scale. You will work on budgets, billing, hiring and managing staff, legal compliance, HIPAA compliance, managing schedules and ordering supplies.
Median salary: $81,000.
Indeed.com states that the average salary for medical practice managers is $79,000:
You will work in a medical organization or hospital and manage the information flow with high effeciency. You must ensure that all data is provided to the proper parts of the organization accurately. You also must make sure that all computer hardware and software is working and is processing all data properly.
Median salary: $84,000
Indeed.com states that the average salary for health informatics manager is $89,000:
By choosing one of these growing health care management fields, you can really put your new MBA to use and make a great living.