Master of Science in Healthcare Management Online

This online master’s in healthcare management program enhances your leadership, operational and strategic skills to support and improve health services teams and organizations.

Apply By: 8/4/26
Start Class: 8/17/26
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Program Overview

Build your leadership skills with the M.S. in healthcare management

The online M.S. in healthcare management program equips you with the practical knowledge and leadership skills needed to manage and improve health care organizations. Through courses grounded in core business principles and applied to real-world health care settings, you will build a well-rounded foundation for today’s evolving health care environment.

Designed for working professionals, this healthcare management master’s program features fully online coursework for a positive work/life balance. You’ll explore emerging technologies such as health informatics and telehealth while building skills in data-driven decision-making. Learn to analyze health care operations, navigate financial and regulatory complexities, and develop strategies that strengthen organizational performance and patient-centered outcomes.

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

  • Apply leadership and management principles within health care organizations
  • Analyze health care operations to support organizational effectiveness
  • Evaluate financial and regulatory factors that impact health care systems
  • Develop strategies to improve quality, efficiency and patient-centered outcomes
  • Integrate ethical decision-making and professional standards into health care management practices
As a graduate of this program, you will be prepared to:
  • Apply leadership and management principles within health care organizations
  • Analyze health care operations to support organizational effectiveness
  • Evaluate financial and regulatory factors that impact health care systems
  • Develop strategies to improve quality, efficiency and patient-centered outcomes
  • Integrate ethical decision-making and professional standards into health care management practices

Potential job opportunities with a master’s in healthcare management include:

  • Health care administrator
  • Medical and health services manager
  • Clinical manager
  • Health care operations manager
  • Practice manager
Potential job opportunities with a master’s in healthcare management include:
  • Health care administrator
  • Medical and health services manager
  • Clinical manager
  • Health care operations manager
  • Practice manager

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.

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.

Total Tuition $22,116.90*
Duration As few as 12 months
Credit Hours 30
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Tuition

Discover affordable tuition that fits your goals

Tuition for the M.S. 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.

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Program Per Credit Hour Per Course Per Program
M.S. in healthcare management $737.23 $2,211.69 $22,116.90

*Published tuition costs may differ from a student’s estimated total “cost of attendance,” which includes the amount an online student may choose to spend on expenses such as housing and food, books and supplies, transportation and other personal items or activities per academic year. As a Florida Tech Online student, you will only ever be billed for applicable tuition and fees. All other costs listed below are estimates per academic year required by the federal government to help you budget for your education. For further information regarding program tuition and fees, please reach out to your enrollment representative or refer to the undergraduate or graduate fees policy. View full cost of attendance information.

Potential Expenses Per Year

Program Technology Fees Federal Student Loan Fees Housing & Food Books & Supplies Transport Personal Expenses Total
M.S. in healthcare management (Full-Time) $310 $75 $16,110 $1,200 $1,500 $2,100 $
M.S. in healthcare management (Part-Time) $155 $35 $8,055 $600 $750 $1,050

Tuition breakdown:

Total Tuition $22,116.90*
Per Credit Hour $737.23

Calendar

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The M.S. 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.

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TermStart DateApp DeadlineDocument DeadlineRegistration DeadlineTuition DeadlineClass End DateTerm Length
Fall 1 20268/17/268/4/268/4/268/12/268/14/2610/11/268 weeks
Fall 2 202610/19/2610/6/2610/6/2610/14/2610/16/2612/13/26

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Next Apply Date 8/4/26
Start Class 8/17/26

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Admissions

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At Florida Tech, we’ve streamlined the admission process to help you get started quickly. Please read the requirements for the M.S. in healthcare management program.

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  • Application for admission
  • 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 Admission
150 W. University Blvd.
Melbourne, FL 32901

Admission Requirements

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

Courses

Explore health care management courses with a real-world focus

For the M.S. in healthcare management online, the curriculum comprises 30 healthcare management course credit hours.

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The capstone for this program should be the last course or taken within the last 12 hours if scheduling does not permit it as the last class. The capstone for this program is MGT 5020 

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.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Explores issues surrounding the employment of human resources in various organizational settings using lectures/guided discussions and case studies. May include recruitment/selection, job analyses/evaluation, equal employment opportunity, training/development, compensation/benefits, appraisal, labor relations, health and safety, and separation/retirement.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces and examines historical development of leadership theory and supporting research. Considers past and contemporary theory in self-analysis by students to define their own leadership styles.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Covers concepts, tools and techniques for evaluation of research proposals and studies. Involves designing, conducting, evaluating and presenting oral and written forms of research. Assignments build on quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Choose 3 Elective Courses:

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces data analytics and business intelligence. Provides insight into tools used to analyze complex business and accounting problems to find rational solutions. Includes cases of increasing complexity that emphasize problem description, definition and formulation. Emphasizes interpretation and implementation of results and practice.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Covers the discovery and identification of new business opportunities, the process of creation within the context of a mature company, the processes of growth through acquisition, and the absorption, discontinuance or spinning out of businesses.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the basic concepts of information technology and innovation from a strategic management perspective. Covers strategic management of high technology companies, emerging technologies in a global marketplace, and aligning product development and system design. Identifies the creation of new products and services, and how new ventures are exploited.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Covers the role of project management in a business or corporate environment. Teaches how to achieve project goals and objectives within set constraints such as time and budget.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Studies the concepts, theory, research and operational problems of modern organizations. Includes classical and modern organizational theory, emphasizing the latter. Covers recent research findings and the theory of human relations in industry. Involves students in case studies.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Addresses the use of information technology systems (ITS) and communications systems in a crisis operational environment. Includes legal and regulatory systems and interface with public safety/emergency agencies.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Combines lectures and class discussion on assigned topics and case analyses. Includes the role of logistics chain management in the economy and organizations; inventory; global logistics; effective organizing; packaging and purchasing; and materials flow and handling. Also includes the implementation of logistics chain management strategy.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Covers interpersonal behavior in two-person relationships, emphasizing interpersonal communication and conflict resolution. Also covers group processes, development and how group norms and culture influence interpersonal relationships.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Includes basic communication theory and the effects of communication on human behavior and organizational effectiveness. Provides a basic understanding of organizational communication theory. Uses case studies and experiential exercises to improve communications skills.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Covers key institutional factors. Includes emergency rescue; military agencies; local, state and federal emergency agencies in the field; and international humanitarian and relief organizations. Explores emergency requirements for food, shelter, health care and public order.
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