Overview

The online master’s degree programme Healthcare Leadership will support you to become a change leader. The Nordic social and healthcare sector faces rapid shifts brought about by digitalisation, privatisation and demographic changes. Especially the development in health technology has with recent implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) evolved rapidly and calls for leaders that can understand and utilize health technology and effectively harness innovation.

In this programme, you will be given the opportunity to explore new leadership techniques, discover your leadership strengths and expand your professional horizon. The programme consists of two main focus areas; Healthcare Leadership and Health Technology.

Within Healthcare Leadership we focus on the broad overview of leadership theories, change and transformational leadership, personal leadership behaviour, team-behaviour, cultural awareness, and systems thinking. You will get a broad overview of leadership theories and learn creative and critical thinking skills required for successful leadership. The focus on Health Technology provides a broad overview of health technology healthcare and focuses on healthcare leadership in the age of Artificial Intelligence.

What you will learn

Leadership competence
Change and innovative competence
Collective sensemaking competence
Technological and ethical competence
Applied advanced research competence

As development and digital communication is in focus, you will also strengthen your competencies to:

Work proactively and multiprofessionally contributing to smart service development and digital communication with the client at the centre
Compare and evaluate knowledge about digital innovations
Understand the principles of user-centred service design to be applied in healthcare

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Healthcare Leadership

Change Leadership

Nordic healthcare in transition

Ethical and digital Nordic healthcare

Advanced Methodology

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 18 months
Part-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-01-22 00:00:00

Language

English

PTE Academic

51

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TOEFL^® IBT

79

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Credits

90 ECTS

Delivered

Online

Disciplines

Health Administration Health Sciences View 6 other Masters in Health Administration in Finland

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

PTE Academic

51

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TOEFL^® IBT

79

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Other requirements

General requirements

To be eligible to apply to Leadership for Nordic Healthcare, you must have a suitable bachelor's degree, within Nursing, Midwifery, Public Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Emergency Care, Physiotherapy, Sports and Physical Education or Social Care.
All applicants must, in addition to the requirements listed above, have a minimum of two years (24 months) of relevant work experience gained after the completion of the bachelor's degree in order to meet the eligibility criteria.

Tuition Fee

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International

12000 EUR/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 12000 EUR per year during 18 months.
EU/EEA

Free

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 0 EUR per year during 18 months.

If a student studies part-time, the fee is half of this: 6 000 euros per academic year (3 000 euros per semester).

Funding

Win a €10000 Scholarship! Deadline: 30 June 2020

Embark on your journey with the Studyportals Scholarship! We're giving away a total of 20,000 euros to help you achieve your dream of studying abroad.

Win a €10000 Scholarship! Deadline: 30 June 2020

Embark on your journey with the Studyportals Scholarship! We're giving away a total of 20,000 euros to help you achieve your dream of studying abroad.

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