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Online MBA in Healthcare Administration

Lead Operations in Hospitals, Clinics, and Healthcare Systems

100% Online

1–2 Years

36 Credit Hours

$537 per Credit

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Shape the Future of Healthcare Leadership

  • Apply By: 10/10/25
  • Start Class: 10/20/25

Earn your MBA in Healthcare Administration while keeping up with your personal and professional priorities. You will build a strong foundation in healthcare operations, compliance, and revenue cycle management while gaining the leadership skills needed to navigate industry change. Whether you work in hospitals, clinics, or health systems, this 100 percent online program prepares you to drive improvement and advance your career.

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  • Earn your degree while keeping up with your personal and professional priorities
  • Learn from professionals who combine academic excellence with industry insight
  • Curriculum is aligned with AAHAM and industry best practices
  • Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission
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Understand the Business Side of Healthcare to Lead with Impact

The online MBA in Healthcare Administration curriculum blends core business principles with specialized healthcare coursework aligned with American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management (AAHAM) standards. Explore topics such as operational efficiency, legal compliance, revenue cycle management, and patient care strategy. Choose electives that align with your interests and build the tools to lead diverse healthcare organizations with confidence and clarity.

Online Healthcare Administration MBA Required Courses

This course is intended to present students with an overview of the formation and operation of healthcare facilities with an emphasis on planning, implementing and managing. This course emphasizes the relationship and impact of theories, policies, strategies and styles of management within a healthcare organization. Students will focus on the integration of facilities and departments within the organization observing, monitoring and evaluating outcomes and customer satisfaction.

Organization development (OD) is concerned with planning, researching, and implementing interventions aimed at organizational change and renewal. The course focuses on understanding and developing process consulting skills. The course will also engage in in-depth exploration of various intervention strategies, including human process, technostructural, systemwide, and strategic change.

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This course will help students develop an awareness of, and sensitivity to, the needs and conditions of diverse groups; theoretical and conceptual knowledge about diverse groups; and specific skills in interacting with people from various diverse groups. The class will approach discussions regarding diversity from the underlying issues surrounding privilege. Students will learn how invisible privilege impacts all aspects of life; this concept will be addressed from the perspective of primary and secondary characteristics of demographic diversity.

Upon completion of the course, students will have a working understanding of:

  1. The evolution of unions in the United States
  2. How unions influence organizational strategic direction
  3. The advantages and disadvantages of unionization for organizations
  4. How the external environment influences both labor and management
  5. Legal aspects relative to labor-management relations
  6. The phases involved in developing a relationship between labor and management
  7. How labor agreements are developed and administered
This course will provide students with information regarding fundamental management principles and special concerns and problems dealing with gerontology and long-term care settings at home and in a variety of institutions. This course will focus on Federal and State regulations, 3rd party reimbursement regulations, health and safety codes, residents rights and the regulatory survey process. The students will learn tools to assess residents quality of care and quality of life. Students will review issues relating to ethics, guardianship and conservatorship, liability, negligence and malpractice.
This course provides an orientation to various analytical and substantive components that are fundamental to becoming familiar with services, programs, issues and trends in Healthcare. Specifically, students will gain an awareness of the complexities of health issues, the historical evolution of issues and themes, and the nature of how different interests and actors interact. Students will learn commonly used frameworks for policy analysis and then apply them to a range of prominent, contemporary health care issues and trends.
This course will provide students with an understanding of the origins, organizations and operations of manage care programs. Students will examine the complexities of the provider-consumer-payer arrangements in a changing and expanding managed care environment. They will review structures, practice models, role of clinicians, capitation and the health service payment systems.

SMSU’s online MBA includes 36 credit hours, and you can complete the program in as little as one year with accelerated course options. The core curriculum explores essential business topics like strategic management, international business, operations, and more.

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Prepare to Lead and Elevate Healthcare Outcomes

Healthcare is one of the fastest-growing fields, with medical and health services employment expected to rise 29 percent from 2023 to 2033.1 SMSU’s Master of Business Administration in Healthcare Administration positions you to lead in this expanding industry. Gain the skills to manage operations, improve patient outcomes, and adapt to constant change. This degree prepares you for leadership roles in hospitals, clinics, and healthcare systems.

Director of Healthcare Marketing $166,410 per year2

Executive Director – Healthcare Facility $117,960 per year3

Explore More MBA Concentrations

SMSU offers a wide array of online MBA concentrations to match diverse career ambitions. Each concentration integrates current industry practices and real-world learning to build specialized expertise and practical leadership skills. Whether your goal is to drive innovation, lead global teams, or steer operations in dynamic sectors, SMSU’s online MBA programs are tailored to help you excel.

Business Administration, MBA: Corporate Finance

Prepare for industry certifications like CFA and FRM with project-based coursework focused on key financial concepts and principles.

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Business Administration, MBA: Accounting

Build advanced skills in tax, audit, and financial reporting while preparing for CPA certification and leadership in accounting roles.

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Business Administration, MBA: Entrepreneurship

Learn to launch, manage, and grow innovative ventures with coursework focused on strategy, innovation, and new business development.

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Business Administration, MBA: General Management

Gain broad-based leadership and decision-making skills to manage teams, streamline operations, and drive business growth.

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Business Administration, MBA: Human Resource Management

Master talent acquisition, employee relations, and organizational development to become a strategic HR leader in any industry.

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Business Administration, MBA: Hospitality Management

Develop the expertise to manage hotels, resorts, and event venues with an emphasis on service excellence and business strategy.

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Business Administration, MBA: International Business Management

Explore global markets, cross-cultural management, and international trade to lead businesses in a globalized economy.

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Business Administration, MBA: Marketing

Sharpen your skills in branding, digital marketing, and analytics to lead creative campaigns and drive business growth.

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Business Administration, MBA: Organizational Leadership

Build your leadership, communication, and change management skills to guide teams and shape organizational culture and performance.

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Sources

  1. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. Occupational Outlook Handbook. “Medical and Health Services Managers.” Retrieved July 25, 2025, from https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/medical-and-health-services-managers.htm#tab-6.
  2. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. “Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2023.” Retrieved July 25, 2025, from https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes112021.htm.
  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. Occupational Outlook Handbook. “Medical and Health Services Managers.” Retrieved July 25, 2025, from https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/medical-and-health-services-managers.htm.