Master of Science in Health Administration
Louisville, USA
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
01 Mar 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
Aug 2025
TUITION FEES
USD 15,175 / per semester *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* non-resident & international | resident: USD 7,466 per semester
Introduction
Healthcare management is a broad field serving one of the largest and most essential industry segments in the U.S. and Canada. Management is needed in the multiple aspects of the industry which include: hospitals, nursing homes, physician’s offices, pharmaceutical and device manufacturers, consulting, government and public policy, and many more.
The Department of Health Management and Systems Sciences designed the MSHA program to deepen knowledge of environments, processes, structures, and strategies that are driving disruption in healthcare. The curriculum has 3 main components:
- Exploration of broad principles and key influencers of leading healthcare organizations
- Examination of evidence-based and data-driven frameworks for strategic leadership and effective management of healthcare organizations and issues
- Analysis of the external healthcare and policy environments that impact population and community healthcare management.
The University of Louisville MSHA program is ranked #32 and a "Best Graduate Program" among all CAHME-accredited programs according to US News (2023). See the link here: Best Health Care Management Programs - US News Rankings.
MSHA Tracks
Our MSHA program is designed to fit your schedule and experience. We offer two tracks: Evening and Online.
Msha Evening Track
Courses in the evening track are offered on our Health Sciences Center campus in downtown Louisville. Courses are primarily offered Monday–Friday after 5 p.m. to accommodate students who work full-time. It is designed for entry-level and mid-career professionals seeking to achieve their personal career objectives within the healthcare industry.
Msha Evening Track
Our 100% online track is designed for working professionals with at least 5 years of work experience.
Mission
To achieve excellence and inclusiveness in graduate-level healthcare management education through teaching, service, and research focused on the development of competent early and mid-careerist organizational healthcare leaders and population health management.
Vision
To serve students from within the Commonwealth of Kentucky and across the United States through our excellence in teaching, service, and research.
Vision
The Master of Science in Health Administration program embraces the following values in building future healthcare leaders in support of our mission and vision:
- Caring: We genuinely show concern for colleagues, students, and the community, demonstrating a commitment to compassion and respect towards one another on a perpetual basis.
- Altruism: We aim to make meaningful, positive differences for all others as we engage the community to improve population health.
- Responsibility: We hold ourselves accountable for acting professionally with integrity and embracing the diversity that exists within our program and community as we meet our mission.
- Dedication: We are dedicated to working as a team to support our vision and achieve excellence through our teaching, service, and research.
- Service-oriented: We embrace a culture predicated on serving the needs of our students, colleagues, and our community to positively influence quality of life, career, and health outcomes.
Admissions
Curriculum
The MSHA program uses UofL’s Population Health Leadership (PHL) Competency Model, a modified version of the National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL) competency model. The program is 57 credit hours, designed to be completed in two years.
Dual Degree Options
The dual MPH (Health Policy) - MSHA degree program facilitates the development of advanced population and public health management professionals that may leverage knowledge and practices from both public health science and healthcare management domains to serve in leadership roles within public health institutions, federal-state-local agencies, and healthcare organizations.
The dual MBA-MSHA program provides select, high-aptitude graduate students a pathway for rigorous, advanced competency development by providing complementary graduate management and healthcare management education over a three-year period in a dual degree format. Graduates of the dual MBA-MSHA program are expected to be exceptionally competitive for national administrative fellowship placement and/or seek executive-track developmental positions in healthcare finance, operations, and strategy.
Bachelors Programs
The University of Louisville offers undergraduate programs that focus on healthcare management and leadership.
Minor in Health Administration: The undergraduate minor in Healthcare Management provides an opportunity for the integration of knowledge derived from other undergraduate programs with the minor coursework to develop student competencies to more effectively serve in healthcare organizations and/or pursue graduate healthcare management education.
BS in Organizational Leadership and Learning (Concentration in Healthcare Leadership): The online bachelor's in Healthcare Leadership (HCL) prepares individuals to be effective leaders and expand their skills within a wide range of healthcare settings. This affiliated program is delivered through an innovative method of competency-based education (CBE) allowing healthcare professionals to capitalize on existing knowledge and experience and earn a bachelor’s degree at their own pace. Graduates of this program frequently pursue the University of Louisville MSHA program to continue their career and competency development toward becoming healthcare executives.
CAHME
The UofL School of Public Health and Information Sciences is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health. The residential and online MSHA programs are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME). CAHME is the accrediting body for graduate programs in health management in the United States.
Gallery
Career Opportunities
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook has identified the increasing “baby boomer” healthcare needs as driving higher demand for the health management occupation. Healthcare occupations and industries are expected to have a faster-than-average growth rate and to add the most jobs between 2020 and 2030, as indicated in the most recent report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor. This field is expected to grow by 32 percent.
Students who complete our Master of Science in Health Administration (MSHA) enter a variety of management positions within healthcare where they focus on the delivery, quality, and cost of healthcare for individuals and the population.
Employment Rate and Salary Information for Graduates
There are 5,710 medical and health service manager positions in Kentucky with an employment rise of 4.2%. The annual mean wage is $94,600 with a rise of 2.0%. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2020 State Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates for Kentucky
As of 2020, there were 429,800 medical and health services managers employed in the U.S. with a rise of 32% by 2030. The national annual median is $104,280. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $59,980 and the highest 10 percent earned more than $195,630. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook
Program Tuition Fee
English Language Requirements
Certify your English proficiency with PTE. The faster, fairer, simpler English test, accepted by thousands of universities around the world. PTE, Do it worry-free!