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Health Sector Management (MHSM)

Health Sector Management (MHSM)

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Program description
Degree awarded: MHSM  Health Sector Management

The School of Health Management and Policy offers an evening program leading to the Master of Health Sector Management (M.H.S.M.) with a variety of elective courses. It is offered cooperatively with the W. P. Carey School of Business M.B.A. full-time program, allowing students the option to earn a concurrent M.H.S.M./M.B.A.

In the managerial epidemiology and the managing clinical trials courses, students learn how to use evidence, gathered in the course of clinical and epidemiological research, to make managerial decisions that enhance delivery of health care, improve system performance, and maximize safety and clinical outcomes. The comparative health policy and health policy management and evaluation courses provide an understanding of how health policy affects both the business of health care and economic health of businesses. Students are trained to manage the implementation and evaluation of health policy in a variety of settings, including: federal and state agencies, health consulting firms and advocacy groups. Health management courses provide an understanding of how a variety of approaches can be applied to a wide spectrum of health care delivery and financing settings.

At a glance

Degree requirements

42 credit hours including the required applied project course (HSM 584) (internship paper with an oral presentation), or
48 credit hours including the required applied project course (HSM 584) (internship paper with an oral presentation), or
51 credit hours including the required applied project course (HSM 584) (internship paper with an oral presentation)

Students take:

  1. Business core. (15)
  2. Health care core. (24)
  3. Electives. (6)
  4. Internship. (3)

Students may concentrate in:

  • Managerial epidemiology, learning how to use epidemiologic data to make managerial decisions that enhance delivery of health care, improve system performance and maximize safety and clinical outcomes.
  • Health policy, learning how to manage the implementation, evaluation and revision of health policies to utilize health resources most efficiently.
  • Or, students may choose a set of electives across concentrations.

Admission requirements

Applications are submitted online to the Graduate College. For general requirements, see admission to the Graduate College. Applicants are required to submit evidence of their ability to pursue a graduate degree program successfully. All applicants must submit a test score from either the GMAT, GRE, PCAT, DAT, or the MCAT, but the GMAT is recommended. Licensed physicians with an M.D. or D.O. from a U.S. accredited medical school are not required to provide a test score, nor are licensed dentists with a D.D.S. from a U.S. accredited dental school, nor applicants with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from a U.S. accredited school. Applicants who hold a Ph.D. in which they have had one or more graduate courses in statitstics, mathematics, accountancy or finance are not required to provide a test score.

Applicants to the M.H.S.M. program submit one application for the M.H.S.M./M.B.A. Three letters of recommendation are required. In addition, applicants are required to provide answers to essay questions.

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