Program Director: Rulon Stacey
Telephone: 303-315-8851
E-mail: Rulon.Stacey@ucdenver.edu

The graduate program in health administration is consistently ranked as a top program in the United States and attracts students with a variety of backgrounds and experience levels, which further enriches the classroom experience. The HA program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education. Full-time faculty with distinguished research records and a select group of practicing managers provide students with the latest thinking on the most important health issues.

Degree Requirements

The curriculum of the MBA in Health Administration is a synthesis of management concepts and techniques that are applicable to any economic organization and tools that can be specifically applied to health services systems. The program emphasizes skills that strengthen basic analytic and decision-making processes used by top-level managers in selecting broad strategies and by junior managers in administering sub-units in healthcare organizations.

Students enrolled in the Master of Business Administration in Health Administration must complete a minimum of 45 semester hours of graduate-level course work to receive their degree. The curriculum is based on a series of structured learning sequences. All of the courses are available in the evening to enable working students to pursue the degree on a part-time basis. The specific course requirements are as follows: