Overview

Health services research is a multidisciplinary field of scientific investigation that studies how social factors, financing systems, organizational structures and processes, health technologies, and personal behaviors affect access to health care, the quality and cost of health care, and ultimately our health and well-being. Health services research aims to provide timely, reliable, and continuously-improved evidence base to guide health care decisions made by clinicians, patients and families, executives and agencies, policymakers, and payers or purchasers.

Students completing the Health Services and Policy program of University of Rochester will be well prepared to take positions in a wide variety of private and public institutions engaged in health care management, health services research, or health policy work.

Key facts

Upon completion, students will:

Appreciate the multi-disciplinary nature of health services research

Understand the structure, financing, and performance of the US health care system

Be familiar with quantitative and qualitative analyses of health care services and policy

Understand the basic principles of statistical analysis, econometrics, quality assessment and comparative effectiveness analysis

Understand current methods used to formulate health care policy

Know how to conduct basic statistical tests and regression analysis.

Know how to interpret health services research studies

Be able to perform decision analysis and comparative-effectiveness analysis

Learn how to risk-adjust health care data.

Be able to perform a health care policy analysis

Career Options

Private Consulting Firms

Government Agencies

Insurance Companies

Legislative Offices

University Research Programs

Managed Care Organizations

Health foundations

Health Advocacy Groups

Programme Structure

Courses include:

US Health Care System

Health Services Research & Policy

Psychology in HSR

Data Management/Analysis with SAS

Ethics in Professional Integrity-Clinical

Quality of Care & Risk Adjustment

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 18 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-01-20 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-11-01 00:00:00
Starting 2027-08-25 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-05-01 00:00:00

Language

English

Credits

37 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Rochester, United States

Disciplines

Public Health Health Administration Health Sciences View 784 other Masters in Health Administration in United States

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Academic requirements

GRE^®

Required

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

Applicants must have earned a U.S. baccalaureate degree or its equivalent from a college, university, or technical school of acceptable standing. Students in their final year of undergraduate study may be admitted on the condition that their bachelor's degrees are awarded before they matriculate. Evidence of the earned degree is required prior to matriculation in the form of an official transcript noting degree conferral.

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Statement of Purpose

Uploaded copy of transcript(s) to online application

3 Letters of Recommendation

Official GRE Scores

Official TOEFL or IELTS scores

Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

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Non-residents

42920 USD / year

≈ 42920 USD / year
Out-of-State

42920 USD / year

≈ 42920 USD / year
Domestic

Applies to you

In-State

42920 USD / year

≈ 42920 USD / year

Living costs

Rochester

United States

925 - 1350 USD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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