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online mha degree
Master of Health Administration (Competency based-CB)
online mha degree
Master of Health Administration (Competency based-CB)
Master's degree
12 months
Approximate Program Length
36
Total Credits
$300
Cost per Credit
Online
Format
Complete in less than 12 months and for under $11,000.
Make an impact on the business side of healthcare. From marketing and IT to policy and economics, our Master of Health Administration (Competency-Based) is designed to equip you with 36 key skills to help you shape your healthcare facility from the top down.
Self-governed, with the assistance of your instructor, this program is designed for working professionals who have a bachelor’s degree and three years of experience in a healthcare environment. To be successful in the program, you’ll also need strong organizational and time management skills.
What is competency-based education?
Make an impact on the business side of healthcare. From marketing and IT to policy and economics, our Master of Health Administration (Competency-Based) is designed to equip you with 36 key skills to help you shape your healthcare facility from the top down.
Self-governed, with the assistance of your instructor, this program is designed for working professionals who have a bachelor’s degree and three years of experience in a healthcare environment. To be successful in the program, you’ll also need strong organizational and time management skills.
What is competency-based education?
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Health Administration
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Business Management
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Communications
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Leadership
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Professionalism
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Strategic Planning
Earn career-relevant skills in weeks – not years.
Learning shouldn’t take years to put into practice. That’s why we’re empowering you to build career-relevant skills with every five- to six-week course.
We’ve worked with labor market researchers like Lightcast to find in-demand skills for occupations and mapped those to our related associate, bachelor’s and master’s degree programs. Showcase new skills in weeks – not years – as you pursue your degree.
Courses
- An undergraduate degree or higher from an accredited, or candidate for accreditation, college or university.
- A cumulative GPA of 2.5
- Three years of leadership or management experience within the past 10 years in a healthcare environment
Schedule
Your academic counselor will help schedule your courses for a Master of Health Administration (Competency-Based).
What you'll learn
When you earn your online degree, you’ll be equipped with a concrete set of skills you can apply on the job.
You'll learn how to:
- Evaluate industry and organizational dynamics in the healthcare environment.
- Generate core business strategies based on innovative concepts developed in the program.
- Construct strategic relationships with diverse stakeholders across the health sector to achieve business objectives with a current or desired employer.
- Develop a leadership identity that reflects traits required in complex healthcare environments.
- Produce a personal legacy that fosters investment in people and the community to drive the future of health care.
- Foster the ability to create and execute operational improvement plans that address transformation, communication, and execution elements within the sector.
Mission
The Master of Health Administration prepares early- to mid-careerists in the health sector, who desire to pursue a degree while employed, with the competencies necessary to grow professionally, facilitate cross-system transformation of the sector as driven by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) Triple Aim, and engage with their communities.
Vision
Creating a new type of health sector leader who is authentic, transparent, and creative – who thinks critically and with agility, comfortable at the intersection of industry expertise and academic scholarship.
Careers & Outcomes
Careers & Outcomes
What can you do with a Master of Health Administration (Competency-Based)?
An MHA can help prepare you to be a:
- Health information management director
- Health manager
- Practice administrator
Student outcomes can be viewed by clicking on the following link to the CAHME website.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, job growth for medical and health services managers is projected to be much faster than average between 2021 and 2031.
BLS projections are not specific to University of Phoenix students or graduates.
Career Services for Life®
Get career coaching, resumé building and interview prep, for life. While outside career advising can cost over $200 an hour, at University of Phoenix it’s built right into your degree at no added cost.
You don’t have to go it alone.
You’ll have a team of advisors invested in your success from day one — dedicated to helping you build your confidence and a personalized career plan you can stick with.
Tools and resources available 24/7/365
We're a university built for the busy. Build your resumé, prepare for an interview and plan your career — whenever it fits your life, day or night.
Networking & mentorship
Through virtual job fairs and networking with the alumni community, we've made it easy to tap into the experience and connections of your peers and colleagues at the University.
Tuition
Tuition
Paying for school
Keep the same fixed, affordable tuition from start to finish of your degree program, even if it takes longer than you planned. That’s our promise: no matter what surprises life brings, you can count on us.
Accreditation & Faculty
Accreditation & Faculty
Count on the quality of your education
Programmatic Accreditation
The Master of Health Administration (MHA) program is programmatically accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME), PO Box 911, Spring House, PA 19477,
301-298-1820.
Accredited since November 2019.
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*While widely available, not all programs are available to residents of all states. Please check with a University Enrollment Representative.
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projections are not specific to University of Phoenix students or graduates.