Online Master of Business Administration in Health Care Management
The following Master of Business Administration/ Health
Care Management (MBA/HCM) program is offered at these University
of Phoenix campus locations: Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana,
Michigan, New Mexico, Online, Phoenix, San Diego, Southern Arizona,
Southern California, and Utah.
The MBA/HCM
is designed to provide students with the business management skills
needed to manage successfully in today's health care delivery
systems. The MBA/HCM program emphasizes the identification, analysis,
and solution of complex management problems with a foundation
of health care concepts and decision models that will support
the variety of management roles that can be seen in today's health
care environment. The MBA/HCM specialization is based upon courses
in health care organizations, health care finance, quality and
data base management, health care infrastructure, and health care
strategic management.
The MBA/HCM
develops students for the role managers play in defining business
problems, assessing information, considering alternatives, and
choosing the best solution. Imagine the manager as the hub of
a wheel. From the hub radiate spokes, each representing a specific
discipline, such as finance, law, marketing, operations, information
systems, etc. Each of these "spokes" generates inputs
for the manager to assess and incorporate into the decision-making
process. The manager is a critical user of these inputs in making
the decision. Although generally not the original producer of
the information, the manager must be able to assess the validity
and reliability of the information in building a business case
for the decision.
To prepare
students for the decision-making role, the MBA/HCM has been designed
to introduce the theory or principles that frame a wide range
of problems or issues in each of the courses. The most current
techniques or tools are applied to these theories to allow students
to practice making decisions to solve a wide range of problems.
The MBA/HCM
consists of 46 credit hours. Thirty-one credit hours constitute
the core curriculum and 15 additional credit hours complete the
MBA/HCM. The core begins with one-credit, three-week, Managerial
Communication course designed to build strategies for success
in the MBA/HCM. It is a prerequisite to all the courses that follow.
The remainder of the core consists of 10, three-credit courses,
which all student who receive an MBA/HCM from the University of
Phoenix must complete. Those students in the MBA/HCM will complete
five additional prescribed courses to hone their skills in health
care management.
Each University
of Phoenix MBA/HCM student will create and maintain an electronic
portfolio reflecting the student's achievements throughout the
MBA/HCM program. It will include assignments from each course,
typically individual assignments, as well as other outcomes the
student may wish to add. These assignments will demonstrate the
student's ability to solve business problems at the graduate level
and serve as a partial catalog of the skills the student has mastered.
Note: Students
who enter the MBA/HCM program with an undergraduate degree that
is not in business will be required to complete web-based material
(introduced during the Managerial Communication course) covering
the fields of Accounting, Finance, Statistics, and Economics.
These students must complete the web-based material and the included
self-assessments for each course prior to taking the Accounting,
Finance, Statistics, and Economics courses in the core. The web-based
material will familiarize the students with the terms and concepts
covered in a foundational course in that subject. That foundational
knowledge will be presumed by the faculty members who teach the
core courses. The web-based material may also serve as a useful
review for students who have studied these subjects as undergraduates,
but would benefit from a refresher.
Online
MBA in Healthcare Management Required Course Study
COM 515
Managerial Communication
1 credit
ORG 502G
Human Relations and Organizational Behavior
3 credits
LAW 529G
Legal Environment of Business
3 credits
MKT 551G
Marketing Management
3 credits
QNT 530G
Statistics and Research Methods for Managerial Decisions
3 credits
MGT 554G
Operations Management
3 credits
ECO 533G
Economics for Managerial Decision Making
3 credits
ACC 529G
Accounting for Managerial Decision Making
3 credits
FIN 544G
Finance for Managerial Decision Making
3 credits
CIS 564.4G
Information Management in Business
3 credits
EBUS 500.1G
e-Business Principles and Practices
3 credits
HCS 530G
Health Care Organizations
3 credits
HCS 579G
Health Care Finance
3 credits
HCS 584G
Quality and Data-Base Management
3 credits
HCS 521
Health Care Infrastructure
3 credits
HCS 586
Health Care Strategic Management
3 credits
MBA
in Healthcare Management Course Waiver Policy
Students may
waive a maximum of 9 credits, not to exceed four University courses.
California students, including Online, may only waive 6 credits
from their Required Course of Study on the basis of transferable
coursework. To meet the criteria for transfer, the course to be
transferred must:
1.
Be completed within the last ten years with a grade of "B"
or higher at a regionally accredited, or approved nationally accredited,
or candidate for accreditation college or university.
2.
Be comparable in content and credits to the University of Phoenix
course being waived, and be a graduate level course.
3.
Be an official transcript of the college or university where the
credit was earned.
Students who
wish to waive a course must make a formal written request to the
Office of Admissions, citing the course they wish waived, the
course to be transferred, and the university where the course
was completed. An official catalog course description and syllabus
must accompany the request along with a copy of the catalog cover
from which the course description was taken. The official transcript
from the institution where the course was completed must also
be submitted unless it was previously submitted to the University.
Online
MBA in Healthcare Management Admission Requirements
The requirements for admission to the MBA program are as follows:
1.
The completed and signed University of Phoenix graduate application
and an application fee.
2.
An undergraduate degree from a regionally accredited, or approved
nationally accredited, or candidate for accreditation college
or university, or a comparable degree from a recognized institution
outside of the United States.
3.
Official transcripts verifying all coursework earned toward the
bachelor's degree and any graduate coursework attempted.
4.
A cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 2.5 (on a 4.0=A scale)
as shown on the Undergraduate degree posted transcript.
5.
Verification of a minimum of three years of significant full-time,
post high school work experience related to the degree program.
6.
Current employment. Unemployed applicants must verify access to
a suitable work environment in which to complete classroom assignments.
7.
For non-native speakers of English, a score of 550 on the Test
of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). The following may exempt
a non-native speaker from having to take the TOEFL:
Successful
completion of 30 transferable, academic semester credits at
a regionally accredited college or university in the United
States.
Successful
completion of 30 transferable, academic semester credits at
a recognized college or University in a country in which English
is the official language.
U.S. high
school diploma or GED.
Equivalent
of a U.S. high school diploma from a country in which English
is the official language.
Official documents
are required.
MBA
in Healthcare Management Degree Requirements
The following requirements must be satisfied to earn the MBA/HCM
degree:
1.
Completion of the 46 semester credit required course of study
with a minimum grade point average of 3.0 ("B").
2.
Satisfactory completion of the applied management science project.
3.
Payment of all tuition and fees.
4.
Completion of the University’s Comprehensive Cognitive Assessment
post–test.
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