Public Administration (MPA) - Healthcare Administration Concentration
The MPA concentration in Health Care Administration, offered in collaboration with the School of Health Professions and Studies, provides advanced education in administration and policy analysis primarily to persons employed within the health care field. It addresses the educational needs of those with specialized, technical, or liberal arts degrees, as well as others with limited or outdated education or training in administration. Focusing on contemporary developments in health care administration, the program concentration prepares students to deal with the complex tasks and challenges of today’s health care system.
Requirements
Applicants should have completed:
- A course in government or public sector administration or relevant experience
- A course in microeconomic principles
- A course in statistics
Applicants lacking any of the prerequisite knowledge base courses can fulfill the requirement(s) with MPA classes as part of their degree.
MPA – Health Care Administration
(39-42 credit hours)
I. Core Courses (15 credits)
PUB 500: Politics, Policy, and Public Administration (3)
PUB 501: Administrative Organization and Behavior (3)
PUB/HCR 506: Research Methods (3)
and two of the following:
PUB 502: Management in Public and Nonprofit Organizations (3)
PUB/POL 510: Intergovernmental Relations (3)
PUB/ECN 571: Public Economics (3)
II. Administrative Functions and Processes (12 credits)
HCR 500*: Epidemiology (3)
PUB/HCR 505: Health Policy (3)
and two or three of the following:
PUB 503: Personnel Issues in Public Service (3)
PUB 504: Ethical Issues in Public Administration (3)
PUB/HCR 509: Health Care Planning and Regulatory Processes (3)
PUB/HCR 518: Budgeting in Public and Nonprofit Organizations (3)
PUB 519/POL 520: Law & Administrative Processes (3)
PUB/POL 522: Environmental Law and Public Policy (3)
PUB/HCR 524: Employment, Law, and Public Policy (3)
PUB/HCR 577: Financial Management in Health Care (3)
PUB/HCR 587: Legal Issues in Health Care (3)
III. Analytical Methods (6 credits)
ECN/HCR 579: Economics of Health Care (3)
PUB/HCR 508: Evaluation of Services and Programs (3)
PUB 523: Accounting in Government & Nonprofit Organizations (3)
PUB/HCR/PSY527: Personnel Selection & Evaluation (3)
PUB/ECN 575: Cost-Benefit Analysis (3)
PUB/ECN 580: Quantitative Methods for Public Administration (3)
IV. Applied Research (6 credits)
PUB/HCR 593: Practicum in Research Design (3)
and
PUB/HCR 595: Practicum in Applied Research (3)
Or a relevant research-intensive course selected from the following
(Each of these courses requires a substantial
research project similar in scope to PUB 595.)
PUB/ECN 571**: Public Economics (3)
PUB/ECN 575**: Cost-Benefit Analysis (3)
PUB/POL 510**: Intergovernmental Relations (3)
PUB 502**: Management in Public and Nonprofit Organizations (3)
V. Internship (3 credits)***
PUB 590: Internship (3)
*Required of those who have not taken HCR 315 or equivalent
**These courses cannot be double counted to meet requirements in any other section of the MPA Program with a concentration in Health Care Administration.
***The internship is not required of those students who are practicing administrators or who have had two or more years of experience in an administrative capacity in the health care field.