Healthcare Administration, MHA**
36-45 credit hours
Requirements
When a MHA student’s undergraduate degree was not in Health Management or the student’s undergraduate and/or post graduate work did not contain sufficient coursework, the student may be required to take additional foundation courses in order to meet MHA program standards. Students must have sufficient hours in the following courses to satisfy this degree requirement. For those students who need to take additional foundation coursework the following courses would be required as part of their MHA program requirements:
Foundation Courses**
Students must have received a grade of B or better in order to waive these requirements. Alternatively, students wishing to waive the English composition requirement may attempt to do so by achieving a score of 70 percent or better on a diagnostic exam prior to the start of the business program.To schedule an appointment to take this exam, contact the Plaster School of Business & Entrepreneurship. The Academic and Professional Writing for Business Students I and II may be required for any international student whose first language is not English dependent on the results of their academic writing placement exam taken prior to the start of the business program.The writing prerequisite course must be taken during the student’s first term of the program.
| EPB 50101 | Academic & Professional Writing for Business Students I | 3 |
| EPB 50102 | Academic & Professional Writing for Business Students II | 3 |
One of the following:
Updated after September addendum - October addendum 10/27/2019**
Core Courses
| HCA 53000 | Human Resources in Healthcare | 3 |
| HCA 53200 | Issues in Public Healthcare Administration | 3 |
| HCA 53310 | Administration of Healthcare Law and Case Study Analysis | 3 |
| HCA 53400 | Healthcare Analytics | 3 |
| HCA 53500 | Research Methods in Healthcare | 3 |
| HCA 53710 | Medical Records, Ethics and the Law of Health Information | 3 |
| HCA 55100 | Quality Improvement and Management in Healthcare Organizations | 3 |
| HCA 55200 | Strategic Management and Marketing in Healthcare Organizations | 3 |
| HCA 57710 | Healthcare Finance and Accounting | 3 |
| HCA 57800 | Economics of Health and Medical Care | 3 |
| HCA 58050 | Digital Medicine and Healthcare Information Systems | 3 |
| HCA 60100 | Healthcare Administration Capstone | 3 |
Added after publishing - September addendum 09/24/2019**