Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a concentration in Healthcare Management

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  • Course description
    As the Baby Boomer generation ages, the demand for healthcare workers—and managers—will continue to grow. In fact, the U.S. Department of Labor predicts that one out of every four new jobs created in the next few years will be in either healthcare or social assistance. They also predict that employment of medical and health services managers will grow faster than the average for all occupations through 2012.

    AIU's Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a concentration in Healthcare Management provides a unique, market-relevant combination of a comprehensive business education and real-world, healthcare-focused deliverables. This degree program was designed to help turn managers into executives: to arm them with the knowledge, skills, and experience that can help them reach high-level success.

    Career Opportunities

    The MBA with a concentration in Healthcare Management can help prepare students interested in developing and advancing a career as a:
    • Health and Social Service Manager
    • Mental Health Center Director
    • Patient Accounts Supervisor
    • Admitting Supervisor
    • Health Information Manager
    Challenging, Relevant Coursework
    The MBA with a concentration in Healthcare Management features industry-relevant coursework taught by faculty members with real-world experience in the field. In addition to having the opportunity to learn the business skills necessary to assume leadership roles in the healthcare field, students study issues that affect health policy, including government regulatory policies, integrated delivery systems, the increased focus on preventive care, and the role of the media in health issues.
    Students who successfully complete the program should be able to:
    • Adapt and innovate to solve problems.
    • Analyze various leader, follower, cultural, and situational characteristics that contribute to leadership, and adapt to the needs of situations, employees, and co-workers.
    • Apply quantitative reasoning and analysis to business and management problems using knowledge of mathematics, statistics, finance and, economics.
    • Develop plans to improve business operations.
    • Apply principles of quantitative and qualitative research to business cases, and evaluate the quality of research presented based on these principles.
    • Use knowledge of economic concepts, principles, and theory to critically analyze and evaluate economic problems and opportunities.
    • Use critical thinking skills, including deriving the issue, understanding argument reasoning and developing conclusions.
    • Discuss the opportunities provided by technology for businesses.
    • Recognize and manage potential ethical and legal conflicts.
    • Communicate effectively in business situations.
    Upper-level concentration courses in this degree program include
    • Systems in Healthcare
    • Health Policy

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