Health Administration MBA

The Health Administration MBA program provides a strong business foundation for healthcare professionals to excel in administrative or policy roles within healthcare organizations. Our competitive Health Administration MBA program brings in a diverse set of students from a wide variety of backgrounds from pharmacists to physicians to entrepreneurs. You’ll receive the benefits of an MBA applied directly to healthcare systems and policy. Highlights of the program include:

• A field study built into the curriculum to give you practical experience
• Strong ties to the health community in Colorado and across the nation at hospitals, HMOs, medical group practices, and consulting companies
• Flexibility to work full-time while completing the degree with evening class options
• Three specialization options to customize your degree to help you stand out in a sea of applicants

Real-world experience is a requirement for this degree. Through the capstone health field study course, you’ll relate your classroom knowledge directly to problems facing hospitals and other healthcare organizations.

The Health Administration MBA consists of 45 credit hours total and is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME). Our classes have an emphasis on group-based work, where you’ll apply your education directly to industry problems in a capstone health field study course.

MBA core (24 hours)

Five MBA core classes are entirely health-focused, and the remaining three core courses give you a strong business foundation. Course topics include:

Health administration core (15 hours)

The health core classes help you understand the healthcare landscape and policy shaping the industry today.

Health administration information technology elective (3 hours)

It’s impossible to separate data from healthcare. With this course, you’ll be able to understand how to make decisions based on data to create holistic pictures of patients, treatments, communication, and health outcomes.

• Health information technology OR Management healthcare information technology

Health administration electives (3 hours)

Additional coursework can be tailored to your interests and include special topics like:

You can add a specialization to your MBA in Health Administration degree by focusing your electives on one area. The following specializations are available.

Financial Health Management

This specialization is designed for anyone either currently working or would like to work in the finance area of a healthcare organization. Subjects include accounting, financial modeling, macroeconomics, and security analysis.

Health Information Technology Management

You’ll learn about the evolving role of IT in healthcare, the applications for delivering healthcare with reduced cost and increased quality, utilizing effective knowledge management systems, and the security and privacy issues associated with health information.

International Health Management and Policy

In this specialization, you’ll focus on global health issues. You’ll learn about international health policy and global health systems with an option to complete an international health travel study. Countries students have visited in the past include India, South Africa, Indonesia, Australia, and Thailand.

We admit students for a fall, spring, or summer start. Admissions are made on a rolling basis, meaning decisions are made as applications are completed.

Application Process

Applicants are required to submit all application materials. Interviews are a part of the admission process. Because of the program’s competitive nature and limited space, we strongly recommend submitting your application as early as possible.

You can check your admission status online through the account you created for the online application. Within two to three weeks from submission of all materials, you will be notified if you are moving forward in the admissions process.

Admission Requirements

• Applicants must have completed an undergraduate program at an accredited United States college or its equivalent in another country.
• No work experience or formal business education is required for admission.

The GMAT/GRE is not required for this program

The Health Administration MBA does not require GMAT or GRE scores for their degree program as part of the graduate admissions requirements. The requirements are a cumulative GPA of 3.30 or better from a US accredited four-year undergraduate institution or the successful completion of a graduate degree, and three or more years of full-time professional work experience.

However, if you received your bachelor’s degree with a grade point average of less than 3.30 or have less than 3 years of professional work experience, you will be asked to submit a statement that outlines other indicators of exceptional motivation, such as solid upper-division performance, GMAT or GRE scores, and other relevant professional experience. The MBA in Health Administration admissions committee may require a minimum GMAT or GRE score for students that do not automatically qualify by GPA and prior work.

For any questions, please contact our admissions team at bschool.admissions@ucdenver.edu or call 303-315-8200.

The health administration program has limited spots available.  Once your application is submitted and complete the admissions department will forward your application to be reviewed by the MBA-HA committee.  After your application is reviewed and if you meet the admission criteria you will be invited to interview within 2-3 weeks from the application deadline date.