Overview
The Master's In Healthcare Management
The Healthcare Management program of the Florida Institute of Technology provides exposure to the needed expertise required to respond to pandemics, natural disasters, and health organizations focused on effective leadership.
Healthcare is rapidly becoming one of the nation’s largest employers. As a result, demand for qualified managers who can navigate daily operations, critical issues, and social policy is growing every day. Graduates with a healthcare management degree develop a strong background in how to guide organizational behavior and cultivate inter-organizational relationships, apply scientific knowledge to public health problems, and build and sustain community coalitions.
Why Consider Florida Tech For A Master's In Healthcare Management?
Because the graduate degree is offered by the Bisk College of Business at Florida Tech, you will not have to defend the quality of your Florida Tech degree. Florida Tech is a non-profit research university with a physical campus and more than 45 years of experience offering graduate programs to working adult students. We are among the top 50 universities in the Southern U.S. and an elite university nationally, according to the 2019 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings. Florida Tech offers specialized programs online through our Virtual Education Center or by face to face instruction via our education centers around the country. We offer specialized programs directly onsite for government organizations, hospitals, and healthcare organizations that supplement internal leadership development programs for high potential employees.
Careers
This program can provide critical healthcare leadership skills to those in a variety of job roles and professions, including:
- Nurses
- Directors of Nursing
- Healthcare company CEOs and COOs
- Laboratory Managers and Health Researchers
- Medical Sales Representatives
- Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives
- Public health workers
- Medical Group Managers
- Hospital Administrators
- Health education program directors
- Health Policy Professionals
- Long Term Care Administrators
- Social Workers
- Emergency Medical Technicians
- Professional Counselors
- Physical Therapists
- Respiratory Therapists
- Radiation Therapists
- Sonographers
- Speech-language pathologists
- Bio-chemists
- Biomedical Engineers
- Occupational Therapists
- Community healthcare activists
- Government employees
- Military officers
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Cultural Competency in the Workplace
- Current Topics in Telemedicine, Mobile Health and eHealth
- Current Topics in Health Disparities, Health Services Delivery and Public Health Promotion
- Managerial Epidemiology in Public and Population Health
- Research in Healthcare Management
- Human Resources in Healthcare Management
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 12 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Credits
Delivered
Disciplines
Management Studies Human Resource Management Health Administration View 2553 other Masters in Management Studies in United StatesAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any academic requirements for this programme.
English requirements
Other requirements
General requirements
- The applicant to the Master of Science in Healthcare Management program must have a bachelor’s degree; however, the degree need not be in business administration. Students who are graduates from other fields are encouraged to apply.
- Students with an undergraduate business degree or courses may be able to waive the program prerequisite requirements based on an evaluation of their undergraduate academic transcripts.
- Prerequisite courses are required of a student whose undergraduate major is outside the business area or who has not previously completed the courses in these prerequisite areas. The exact number of needed prerequisite courses depends on courses completed during the student’s undergraduate studies.
Tuition Fee
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International
18000 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 600 USD per credit during 12 months. -
National
18000 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 600 USD per credit during 12 months.
Living costs for Melbourne
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
Studyportals Tip: Students can search online for independent or external scholarships that can help fund their studies. Check the scholarships to see whether you are eligible to apply. Many scholarships are either merit-based or needs-based.