Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration – Healthcare Management Online

Pursue careers in administration, planning or other business-focused sectors of the health care industry when you learn how management principles affect the growth of medicine and wellness organizations.

Apply By: 10/7/24
Start Class: 10/21/24
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Program Overview

Open up new opportunities with the online health care management bachelors program

Prepare for leadership roles in diverse health care settings with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration – Healthcare Management from Florida Institute of Technology. In this IACBE-accredited online program, you will study various issues relating to modern-day health care delivery, such as community health, managed and public health care systems, continuous quality management, health services planning, health policy management, epidemiology and medical ethics. You will also explore disciplines of management, including leadership, organization, strategy, human resources and planning.

Curriculum features liberal arts fundamentals and STEM-based concepts, empowering you with high-demand technical and communication skills upon graduation.

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

  • Recognize and apply fundamental business concepts in the field of health care management
  • Understand health care organizations, managed care and medical ethics
  • Understand topics such as community health evaluation and quality improvement methods
  • Recognize and apply fundamental business concepts in the field of health care management
  • Understand health care organizations, managed care and medical ethics
  • Understand topics such as community health evaluation and quality improvement methods

Career opportunities:

  • Health care manager
  • Hospital administrator
  • Medical office manager
  • Health care manager
  • Hospital administrator
  • Medical office 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 undergraduate 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 undergraduate programs.

Per Credit Hour $532.50*
Transfer Credits Up to 90
Credit Hours 121

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

Tuition details for the business administration health care management BA

Tuition for the BA in Business Administration – 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:

Per Credit Hour $532.50*

Calendar

Use these dates to plan your academic timeline

The BA in Business Administration – 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 1 20248/26/248/12/248/19/248/21/248/23/2410/20/248 weeks
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

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Next Apply Date 10/7/24
Start Class 10/21/24

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Admissions

Admission requirements for the BA in Business Administration – Healthcare Management

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


  • Completed application
  • For freshman: Official transcripts from a high school or equivalent (GED or certificate of completion, must bear date of graduation)
  • For transfers: Official transcripts from all accredited colleges/universities attended
  • Minimum GPA of 2.5

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

  • 2.5 GPA
  • No application fee
  • Official transcripts

Courses

Course specifics for your online health care management degree

For the BA in Business Administration – Healthcare Management online, the curriculum comprises 121 credit hours, including 94 credit hours of core courses and 27 credit hours of additional courses.

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 1
Helps students new to Florida Tech and online learning to adjust to the university and acquire essential academic survival skills (online classroom behavior, academic honesty, study skills, etc.) that enhance academic integration into college. Requirement for all Florida Tech Online students

Students must take CIS 1130 PC Applications or CIS 1140 Business Computer Skills. 

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Surveys the functions and operations of business organizations in a global marketplace. Studies the structure, operation, financing, relationships and responsibilities of firms in context of current legal, social, regulatory and environmental issues. Requires critical thinking, communication, research, and individual and group problem solving.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces computer applications. Includes basic computer concepts and terminology through experience using the operating system, and word processing, spreadsheet and presentation management software.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Uses commercial software to understand the business functions of computers and develop personal competency in practical application of computers in business. Provides specific knowledge and advanced capabilities in various skills necessary for effective performance in academic and practical environments.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the financial environment, financial statements, the accounting cycle and the theoretical framework of accounting measurement, emphasizing mechanics, measurement theory and the economic environment.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Continues EAC 2211. Emphasizes understanding the role of accounting in product costing, costing for quality, cost-justifying investment decisions, and performance evaluation and control of human behavior.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Uses quantitative techniques to aid in decision-making. Emphasizes problem identification and applies appropriate solution techniques for interpretation of results. Includes probability theory, decision-making under certainty, risk and uncertainty, inventory control, forecasting, PERT/CPM, utility theory and linear programming.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Incorporates all functional business areas dealing with organizational challenges. Emphasizes decision-making processes related to strategy formulation and implementation in global settings.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the concepts that aid in understanding both aggregate economic conditions and the policy alternatives designed to stabilize national economies. Includes the determination of GDP and national income, inflation, unemployment, monetary policy, economic growth and exchange rates.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the neoclassical theory of price determination. Includes supply and demand analysis, production and cost theory, market structures, externalities and public goods, factor payments, income distribution and informational asymmetries.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Investigates the operational responsibilities of individuals in light of political, moral, social, ethical and jurisprudential considerations.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the principles of corporate financial management. Emphasizes the time value of money in investments of real or financial assets. Covers planning for current assets and liabilities, and long-range capital. Passing grade in EST 2703 Statistics is recommended.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces management as a discipline and process. Includes evolution and scope of management, decision-making, planning, strategy, organizing, staffing, leading, control, change, and the importance of management in the global environment and ethical considerations of management decisions.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Covers the principles and systems related to the management and leadership of human resources. Includes legal and administrative law issues; health, safety and security; selection and placement; job analysis; training and development; compensation and benefits; and job analysis systems.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces business research methods and techniques for composing and formatting an industry analysis. Emphasizes written communication for the business discipline and how to use library and census databases. Requires synthesis of information from multiple sources and production of senior-level business analysis. First in a two-course sequence.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Focuses on applying business research methods learned in EMG 4005 to produce a new venture concept and actionable business plan as second in a two-course sequence. Emphasizes critical thinking and business analysis tools (marketing, and operational, financial, organizational and strategic analysis). Introduces business presentation techniques.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Studies human behavior in organizations. Blends newer concepts of behavior theory with classical organizational theory. Includes methods for bringing change to organizations.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Provides the fundamental principles in the marketing of goods, services and ideas. Includes planning, pricing, promotions and distribution. Focuses on global marketing, marketing ethics and managing the marketing function.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Emphasizes mathematical concepts. Includes measures of central tendency and spread; probability; binomial, normal and t distributions; statistical inference; and linear regression and correlation.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the moral problems that arise in the practice of medicine. Covers theories about what is good and what is right as related to bioethical and socioethical issues.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Studies the U.S. healthcare system. Includes structure, finance, governance, personnel and cultural values. Emphasizes the influences exerted by the economic, political and social forces within the larger society and the healthcare system’s response to these influences.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Analyzes the organizational structure and management of managed healthcare. Emphasizes current trends including the payment and financial aspects of America’s managed healthcare system
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Studies descriptive epidemiology and its application to the analysis of community health. Emphasizes the computation and interpretation of basic health status indicators, as well as the application of health promotion and disease prevention strategies. Also covers the U.S. public health system and practices.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Studies in depth the quality improvement philosophy, methodologies, tools and issues related to healthcare. Emphasizes quality standard setting, system design, reporting mechanisms and effectiveness assessment. Closely examines the relationship between quality improvement programs, risk management and use review.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Integrates health services planning, organization management and evaluation as part of capstone. Studies policy formation and management.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Studies the important uses of information technology in organizations. Includes information requirements and flow, system design and analysis methodologies, the generation and accumulation of data for decision-making, and the implementation and control of information systems.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Provides a contemporary approach to organization and management philosophy, theory, concepts and applications. Focuses on improving quality, productivity and competitive position through a realistic, relevant and sweeping view of the body-of-knowledge needed by operating managers to improve systems and processes.

Students are required to take COM 1101 Composition and Rhetoric or WRI 1001 First-Year Writing 2, COM 1102 Writing About Literature and select one additional 2000 level 3-credit communication course.

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The first of two courses in college-level writing skills. Focuses on writing essays using various rhetorical modes: persuasion, description, comparison and analysis. Presents basic methods of library research, as well as the MLA documentation system. Students write one research paper and several essays.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Continues work begun in WRI 1000 First-Year Writing 1. Includes study in rhetorical analysis and the conventions of various genres. Also includes intensive instruction in writing and revision of work that culminates in a research paper.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The second of two courses in college-level writing skills. Focuses on reading and analyzing poems, plays and short works of fiction. Students write several essays and one research paper on literary topics.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Practice in the technical and scientific writing style and format, including gathering and using data to prepare reports. Includes abstracts, reports, letters, technical descriptions, proposals and at least two oral presentations.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Designed for the future business professional. Includes business research methods, report writing, business correspondence and communication in the workplace. Covers analytical, informational, routine and special reports.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces civilization from its early development to the European Renaissance. Emphasizes the interpretation of primary texts that reflect the intellectual and historical changes in society. The first of two interdisciplinary courses

Select one course (3 credits) from the following courses. 

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Similar in purpose and method to HUM 2051, continues the interpretation of primary texts, emphasizing the Renaissance period, the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Modern Age.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the major ideas, ideals and events that have determined the American experience in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Surveys key philosophical problems that occupied philosophers in the modern period and today. Emphasizes the analysis of theories by modern and contemporary philosophers on issues such as the nature of knowledge, facts versus values, personal identity, and consciousness in their historical context.

Students must take Math 1701 College Algebra and any 1000 level or higher Math course.

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Elementary coverage of discrete mathematics. Includes logical arguments, mathematical induction in proofs, sets and relations (extension to functions and their properties), elementary counting principles (inclusion-exclusion), permutations and combinations.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Real-number system; arithmetic operations with polynomials, special products and factoring; linear, fractional and quadratic equations; inequalities, exponents, radicals and absolute values; functions and graphs; and complex numbers, logarithms, logarithmic and exponential functions
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Emphasizes mathematical concepts. Includes measures of central tendency and spread; probability; binomial, normal and t distributions; statistical inference; and linear regression and correlation.

Select two courses (6 credits) from the following courses. 

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Presents basic aeronautical factors affecting aircraft design and performance. Major topics include atmospheric properties, lift, drag, thrust, aircraft performance, stability and control, high-speed aerodynamics, operating strength limitations, and aerodynamics of specific flying problems.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the concepts and applications of the physical sciences for non-science majors. Includes the processes and history of science, thermodynamics, electricity, waves, chemical reactions, nuclear energy, relativity and the formation of the Earth and the universe.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the concepts and applications of the biological sciences for non-science majors. Includes cell structure, function and reproduction, genetics and genetic engineering, evolution and the environmen
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Covers topics essential for understanding our universe in the 21st century. Introduces astronomy concepts for nonscience majors. Includes principles that demonstrate the size of Earth and our solar system, the age of Earth, the origin of the elements and the age of our universe. Also includes how humans may colonize off-Earth locations.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Includes a survey of physics, chemistry and astronomy including motion, forces, energy, electricity, waves, the metric system and the application of science and technology to everyday living.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Facilitates student understanding of laws, phenomena and processes of cellular and human biology, and to address selected current topics in ecology and environmental science.

Select one course (3 credits) from the following courses. 

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the concepts that aid in understanding both aggregate economic conditions and the policy alternatives designed to stabilize national economies. Includes the determination of GDP and national income, inflation, unemployment, monetary policy, economic growth and exchange rates.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the neoclassical theory of price determination. Includes supply and demand analysis, production and cost theory, market structures, externalities and public goods, factor payments, income distribution and informational asymmetries.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Explores how scientific investigators explain the natural world. Provides an overview of the history of science and mathematics to broaden comprehension. Puts work in science and mathematics pedagogy in historical context. Improves writing, research and analysis skills.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the major ideas, ideals and events that have determined the American experience in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Explores the basic questions concerning human nature, human behavior, crime and criminality from the perspectives of sociological, psychological and criminological theories.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Overviews psychological processes, including both areas in which psychology is a natural science (physiological psychology, sensation and perception, basic learning and cognition) and a social science (motivation, human development, personality, social interaction, psychopathology and psychotherapy).
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the relevance of psychological understanding in personal and interpersonal situations, including definitions and discussions of human adjustment factors, such as anxiety, stress, coping mechanisms and psychological adaptation.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines experimental evidence on the physical, physiological and psychological effects of drug use and conclusions relating to the real vs. alleged effects of drugs.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Integrates and presents biological, psychosocial and cultural aspects of human sexuality within the context of the most recent research findings.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Surveys the theory, research and applications of psychology pertaining to exercise and sports. Presents current topics and issues relevant to sport psychology.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Surveys the areas of social psychology as it has evolved in American psychology, including its history, methods and theories of intrapersonal, interpersonal and group behavior. Reviews sociological approaches to social psychology and cultural processes that affect social phenomena.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Overviews the major theoretical approaches to personality development and research in the field.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Overviews psychological principles, theories and research pertaining to the developing child from conception through early adolescence. Includes biological and environmental influences on affective, cognitive, moral, social and personality development.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the research and application of the essential competencies of effective leadership such as managing conflict, facilitating communication and leading groups and teams.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Covers the many ways psychology is applied in organizations to improve performance and quality of work life. Includes employee selection and personnel law, performance management, training, motivation, job attitudes, stress, teamwork, leadership and organizational development.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines psychological disorders, including theories for their development, symptomology and system of classification.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Overviews clinical psychology and community psychology. Reviews methods of clinical assessment and treatment of behavioral disorders. Presents the concepts of community psychology as they have developed from the fields of psychology, social work and public administration
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Offers an interdisciplinary viewpoint of the many ways in which human beings function as individuals, members of larger groups and members of particular cultures. Explores the disciplines of sociology, psychology and criminology in seeking to understand and explore human behavior.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Surveys various global issues arising since World War II. Combines history, political science and economics. Emphasizes the interaction of the superpowers during the Cold War, the post-colonial emergence of the Third World, the ascendancy of regional and international economic and political institutions and the reshaping of contemporary Europe.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the contemporary social issues such as poverty, unemployment, energy, pollution, sexual deviance, drugs and crime. Includes causes, interactions, policy and possible solutions

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