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MBA Courses and Structure
The MBA program consists of 48 credit hours: 12 courses and two year-long projects. The program can be completed in 24 months.
Course List:
Course List:
Business Law - 3 credits
Equips you with a firm knowledge of essential legal principles and how they affect business decision-making. Learn about contracts, torts, and property, including trusts and estates, leases, professional liability, and the Uniform Commercial Code.
Economics for MBAs and the World Economy - 4 credits
Helps you master key economic and trade issues affecting the healthcare industry. Identify intermediate micro-economic theory, necessary for understanding consumer behavior, with emphasis on production and costs, market structure and pricing, risk analysis, and investment theory and capital budgeting. Develop your understanding of key dimensions of the global economy as they relate to healthcare, including international opportunities and risks. Gain knowledge of trade theory and policy, the balance of payments, foreign exchange markets, exchange rate systems and risks, and international payment systems. Learn about foreign direct investment, the changing role of multi-national corporations, and the elements of international corporate strategies.
Business and Public Policy (ethics focus) and Strategic Management - 4 credits
Examines contemporary challenges faced by medical and administrative medical practitioners. Examine the political, legal, economic, and ethical forces acting on business. Learn about the interaction of the market system and public policy process in the development of law and regulation. The course also takes an integrative approach to strategic management, stressing formulation, implementation of strategy and policy, and evaluation and control of strategy in various types of organizations.
Financial and Managerial Accounting - 4 credits
Gives you a strong understanding of the concepts and methods used in financial statements and their application in the healthcare industry. Learn how to use and prepare income statements, balance sheets, and statements of cash flows. Grasp the concepts related to accounting and reporting issues, including revenue and expense recognition, cash, receivables, inventory, marketable securities, long-lived assets, and debt and equity securities. Understand the importance of cost information in managerial decisions and the operations of medical organizations, cost data collection and analysis, and the cost accumulation process. Acquire the techniques for using cost data in decision-making, planning, control, performance evaluation in financial reporting, and performance evaluation by others.
Financial Management and Directed Readings - 4 credits
Examines the theory and practice of business finance for effective planning and control. Understand the impact of long-term and short-term uses and sources of funds on a firm's market value. Study advanced case studies in domestic and international financial management. Understand working capital policy, capital budgeting, financing with debt and equity, dividend policy, valuation, project finance, venture capital, and mergers and acquisitions.
Healthcare Policy Analysis - 3 credits
Introduces you to the current concepts in healthcare policy to identify new opportunities. Develop your skills in conducting and critiquing policy analysis. Learn the correct application of methodologies used in analyzing possible consequences of specified alternatives in the decision-making process. Understand appropriate applications and limitations of policy analysis and its relationship to politics and the public policy process.
Human Resource Dynamics and Special Topics - 4 credits
Focuses on an integrative approach to organizational concepts and management principles. Take a practical, integrated approach to organizational concepts, management principles, the effects of leadership styles and human resource policies on organizational performance in a global and competitive work environment.
Information Systems - 3 credits
Enables you to use the latest concepts and tools for managing information systems to run your day-to-day operations. Understand information systems, databases and database management, telecommunications, and enterprise networks. Stay on top of emerging technologies, including neural networks, multimedia, and virtual reality. Study functional information systems, systems life cycles, knowledge-based systems, computer security and control, and information resource management.
Interdisciplinary Projects A and B - 4 credits each
Promotes the practical application of theoretical concepts. Identify specific projects and experiential studies of interest in these year-long interdisciplinary projects.
Managerial Statistics - 2 credits
Enables you to understand and apply statistical concepts for information gathering and evaluation to identify opportunities and make strategic business decisions. Understand descriptive statistics, frequency distributions, probability, sampling distributions, statistical inference and testing, correlation analysis, regression modeling, and variance analysis. Get acquainted with forecasting and statistical-process control. Learn to use statistical software.
Marketing Management - 2 credits
Emphasizes the marketing process and its relevance to the healthcare industry. Learn the marketing process from the viewpoint of the firm and understand market analysis, product planning, channels of distribution, pricing, promotional decision-making, and develop an integrated marketing plan.
Operations Management and Special Topics - 4 credits
Equips you with the fundamentals of operations management and hones your strategic decision-making skills. Learn about inventory management, resource allocation, production planning, project management, location and transportation analysis, investment planning, queuing systems, equipment selection, and maintenance.
Personal Financial Advising - 3 credits
Provides you with a set of tools to make intelligent financial decisions. Learn the fundamentals of pensions, taxes, investing, budgets, estates, trusts, insurance and how to create a comprehensive personal financial plan. Understand regulation, professional ethics, and the economics of advisory firms. Enhance your knowledge of computer spreadsheets and case studies.
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