Master of Business Administration in Healthcare Management Online

The health care management specialization provides knowledge of contemporary medical policies and trends to help you pursue leadership roles in wellness organizations.

Apply By: 12/30/24
Start Class: 1/13/25
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Program Overview

Boost your résumé with the online health care management MBA

Prepare to tackle challenges and make a positive impact within the dynamic health care industry with the Master of Business Administration in Healthcare Management online program from Florida Institute of Technology. In this IACBE-accredited program, you will study financial management, information technology, planning, marketing and legal aspects of health care. Coursework also integrates business topics such as strategic decision-making and organizational behavior.

In this online healthcare management MBA, you will engage in case studies of modern health care institutions and create a thorough business plan with a balanced budget, empowering you with skills applicable in a multitude of medical organizations. Curriculum includes STEM-researched concepts, preparing you to become an in-demand, high-tech expert in this rapidly growing career field.

As a graduate of this program, you will be prepared to:

  • Understand managerial economics and microeconomic forces that influence business decision-making, including competitive markets, benefit-cost analysis and decision-making under risk and uncertainty
  • Understand the importance of internal reporting for planning and control and formulating major plans and policies
  • Understand financial management and planning, organizational behavior, design and management practices
  • Use knowledge of leadership theory, operations management and corporate ventures to build competitive marketing plans and business strategies
  • Apply emerging theories of effective leadership, management, negotiation, health care policy and law, healthcare planning, marketing and information management
  • Understand managerial economics and microeconomic forces that influence business decision-making, including competitive markets, benefit-cost analysis and decision-making under risk and uncertainty
  • Understand the importance of internal reporting for planning and control and formulating major plans and policies
  • Understand financial management and planning, organizational behavior, design and management practices
  • Use knowledge of leadership theory, operations management and corporate ventures to build competitive marketing plans and business strategies
  • Apply emerging theories of effective leadership, management, negotiation, health care policy and law, healthcare planning, marketing and information management

Career opportunities:

  • Health services manager
  • Hospital administrator
  • Health care finance manager
  • Director of health care marketing
  • Health services manager
  • Hospital administrator
  • Health care finance manager
  • Director of health care marketing

Also available:

At Florida Tech, we offer a variety of in-demand online programs that prepare you with relevant skills for your career of choice. Take a look at our other business programs.

At Florida Tech, we offer a variety of in-demand online programs that prepare you with relevant skills for your career of choice. Take a look at our other business programs.

Total Tuition $33,720.12*
Duration As few as 15 months
Credit Hours 36

Accreditation

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The Nathan M. Bisk College of Business at Florida Institute of Technology has received specialized accreditation for its business programs through the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE), located at 11960 Quivira Road in Overland Park, Kansas, USA. For a list of accredited programs, please view our IACBE member status page.

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Tuition

Use these numbers to create a financial plan for earning your degree

Tuition for the MBA in Healthcare Management is affordable. Take advantage of our pay-by-the-course system, so you can manage your budget as you pursue your degree. Technology fees are included in the total tuition.

Tuition breakdown:

Total Tuition $33,720.12*
Per Credit Hour $936.67

Calendar

Plan your path to completion with these health care management MBA dates

The MBA in Healthcare Management online program is ideal for working students. Choose from multiple start dates and complete your degree at the pace that best fits your schedule.

TermStart DateApp DeadlineDocument DeadlineRegistration DeadlineTuition DeadlineClass End DateTerm Length
Fall 2 202410/21/2410/7/2410/14/2410/16/2410/18/2412/15/248 weeks
Spring 1 20251/13/2512/30/241/6/251/8/251/10/253/9/258 weeks
Summer 20255/19/255/5/255/12/255/14/255/16/257/13/25

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Next Apply Date 12/30/24
Start Class 1/13/25

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Admissions

Here are the streamlined admission steps for the MBA in Healthcare Management online program

At Florida Tech, we’ve streamlined the admission process to help you get started quickly. Please read the requirements for the MBA in Healthcare Management online program.


  • Application for admissions
  • Earned bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
  • Official transcripts from all colleges and universities
  • Current résumé
  • Undergraduate cumulative GPA of 3.0 on 4.0 scale

Official transcripts, test scores and other documents should be sent to:

Mail address:
Office of Admissions
150 W. University Blvd.
Melbourne, FL 32901

Admission Requirements

  • No application fee
  • No GMAT/GRE
  • GPA of 3.0 or above

Courses

More details about what you will study in the online MBA in Healthcare Management program

For the MBA in Healthcare Management online, the curriculum comprises 36 credit hours, including 18 credit hours of core courses, 12 credit hours of health care management specialization courses and 6 credit hours of directed electives.

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Provides an understanding of the microeconomic forces that influence firm decision-making. Includes competitive markets and market failure, benefit-cost analysis, demand estimation and forecasting, decision-making under risk and uncertainty, production and cost estimation, and market structure analysis.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Focuses on internal reporting to managers for use in planning and control, in making nonroutine decisions and in formulating major plans and policies. Covers cost-volume-profit relationships, flexible budgets and standards, job order and process cost, and cost allocation and accumulation.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Studies the concepts and tools of corporate financial management and financial planning, including capital budgeting, capital structure and net working capital. Considers the importance of ethics in financial decision-making.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Presents existing research, theories and models explaining how individual and group behavior and processes shape the internal dynamics of organizations. Provides the foundation to understand contemporary debates concerning alternative organizational designs and management practices.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the tools and techniques of managing marketing activities as well as an analysis of the marketing process. Emphasizes decision-making, the refinement of skills needed to recognize and solve marketing problems, and effective communication of recommendations. Uses case analysis extensively.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
In-depth analysis of industries and competitors, and how to build and defend competitive advantages in forming a successful competitive strategy. Case analysis and management simulation convey the multifunctional nature of decision making at the top management level. Augmented by live-case analyses.

The following foundation courses are considered prerequisites to this program and will be waived for any student with an undergraduate degree in business or who has taken undergraduate courses in accounting, economics and finance with a minimum grade of B.

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines necessary tools required to plan and run a successful business venture. Requires integration of concepts, methods and models from accounting, economics and marketing in forming a business plan for a product or service in a case study.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Builds on BUS 5601.  Examines and uses concepts, methods and models from the functional business areas of statistics, finance, management and law. Requires students to integrate each component into a complete business plan.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Analyzes key contemporary issues in healthcare policy. Includes design and structure of the U.S. healthcare system, policy initiatives and the roles of government, the private sector, consumers and advocacy groups in setting policy agenda.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Addresses issues related to the management of information for healthcare practitioners and consumers. Provides insight and experience, and applications of information technology that improve the quality of healthcare communication and delivery, and facilitates healthcare research.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Analyzes healthcare business entities and the regulations with which they must comply. Discusses individual right to access, and malpractice and its defense. Examines legal perspectives to starting a new healthcare business venture, and information necessary before entering into a joint healthcare venture.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Discusses and applies the concepts of healthcare planning and marketing to healthcare delivery, assessment of community needs and resource planning in both ambulatory and clinical settings. Includes health services planning and trends, demand for and use of health services, research methods and sources of marketing and planning data.

Six credit hours of directed electives (BUS 5000-level or higher) are required if BUS 5601 Essentials of Business Development 1 and BUS 5602 Essentials of Business Development 2 are waived.

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