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Course Overview

Successfully managing strategy, finance, patient experience, and operations in the highly regulated and unique health care sector requires specialized competencies and expertise beyond a traditional MBA.

This degree focuses on the critical success factors driving health care systems today (guided by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Quadruple Aim):

  1. Improve the health of populations
  2. Enhance the quality of care for individuals
  3. Reduce the per capita cost of health care
  4. Improve the work-life of care providers

Plan of Study 

Unique to this degree, you will have the opportunity to attend two on-campus leadership immersions and a faculty-led travel experience to study another health care system. The faculty strives to blend the flexibility of online learning with the value of face-to-face networking, interaction, and travel. All courses use a case-based, dynamic, and interactive focus on key health care topics including economics and policy, health IT and decision support, ethics, systems quality, and organizational learning.

Business and leadership courses prepare you to tackle issues involving financial management, quality improvement, operations, and strategy formulation—all within the context of real-world health care trends and challenges. You’ll be well prepared to develop, direct, and implement strategies and tactics that will shape the health care organizations of the future.

The MS in health systems administration program was built to support a set of professional competencies identified by the program’s advisory board, faculty, and alumni. These 19 competencies fall under five domains and support students for success in the field of management and leadership in health care:

  • Knowledge of health care systems in the U.S.
  • Communications and interpersonal effectiveness
  • Critical thinking, analysis, and problem-solving skills
  • Management and leadership skills
  • Professionalism and ethics theory and practice

Entry Requirement 

Admission Requirements:

  • Hold a baccalaureate degree (or equivalent) from an accredited university or college.
  • Submit official transcripts (in English) of all previously completed undergraduate and graduate coursework.
  • Submit a personal statement of educational objectives.
  • Submit a current resume or curriculum vitae.
  • No GRE/GMAT required 
  • International applicants whose native language is not English must submit scores from the TOEFL or IELTS exams.

Academic Requirements:

  • TOEFL: 88
  • IELTS: 6.5    
  • PTE Academic: 61

English Language Requirements:

An official score report for the TOEFL, IELTS, or PTE Academic exam is required of all international applicants whose native language is not English. Please view the overall minimum score requirement for your intended program in the table below. In addition, each program requires balanced sub-scores when determining an applicant’s need for additional English language courses. 

Fees

The online MS in Health Systems Management requires 39 credits and costs $1191 per credit hour (Academic Year 2020 – 2021). This tuition reflects the RIT Online discount of 43% off campus-based program costs.


This information was accurate on : 09/04/2021
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