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Dec 21, 2024
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2011-2013 Undergradate & Graduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED PUBLICATION]
Master of Health Administration
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The College of Nursing and Health Professions offers a Master of Health Administration (MHA) degree. Students can complete the 39 credit hour program in six semesters.
Program Mission
The mission of the MHA program is to educate students for leadership roles in healthcare. Graduates will use evidence-based decision making to assure integrity and organizational success. As leaders, they will strive to provide high quality, cost effective, and accessible healthcare in their communities.
Program Goals
Graduates of the MHA program should be able to accomplish the following:
- Integrate planning into program administration to achieve optimum organizational performance;
- Provide sound financial management of health organizations under alternative financing mechanisms;
- Effectively manage healthcare personnel in diverse healthcare settings;
- Collect, analyze, and apply both business and health information for evidence-based decision making;
- Conduct statistical, quantitative, qualitative, and economic analysis to assist in decision making;
- Analyze legal and ethical issues and take appropriate action;
- Integrate knowledge of organizational and governmental policy formulation into their decision making;
- Adapt to change effectively;
- Analyze and apply the epidemiological principles to assess the health status of populations;
- Integrate the determinates of health and illness and health risks of diverse populations into evidence-based decision making;
- Analyze the effectiveness of the healthcare delivery system;
- Employ systems thinking as a mechanism to assist others to manage across organizational boundaries;
- Evaluate and appropriately apply business and health outcomes, measures, and measures for process improvement;
- Display the servant leader model in their leadership style; and
- Demonstrate skills in synthesis of information, oral and written communication, team leadership, and mentoring.
Program Delivery
The program uses a hybrid learning model of online delivery to provide the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary for the assumption of program goals. Application of theory to the practice of healthcare administration is a key element in the program’s offerings. The program is exclusively delivered online with the exception of two three-day intensive meetings on the campus of the University of Southern Indiana. These intensives occur in the middle of August and January respectively. The intensives function much like an all-day meeting or conference with course content supplemented by guest speakers, field experiences, and networking functions.
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Admission Requirements
Applicants are considered for entrance in the fall semester of each year. All application materials must be received no later than June 1. Consideration for admission to the MHA program requires that students submit evidence of the following:
- Completion, prior to entering the MHA program, of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university;
- Achievement of a minimum undergraduate GPA of 3.0 on a 4-point scale; (Results of post-graduate academic studies may be considered at the discretion of the MHA Admissions Committee.)
- Recent academic exposure to the fundamental principles of economics, statistics, and accounting is desired prior to matriculation;
- Completion of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or the Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT);
- Work experience, ideally a minimum of two years in the healthcare field;
- Three references, two work-related and one personal; and
- Acceptable written and oral communication skills.
The following items must be forwarded to the MHA program.
University of Southern Indiana
College of Nursing and Health Professions
Master of Health Administration Program
8600 University Blvd.
Evansville, IN 47712
- A completed USI Master of Health Administration Program Application for Admission and supporting materials. Supporting materials include curriculum vitae, an essay, and three references. Refer to the application form for detailed information on these items.
- GRE or GMAT score. Designate the MHA program director as the recipient of scores to be forwarded by the testing service.
The following items must be forwarded directly to the Office of Graduate Studies.
University of Southern Indiana
Office of Graduate Studies
8600 University Blvd.
Evansville, IN 47712
- A completed USI Application for Admission to Graduate Studies;
- A $25 application fee made out to the University of Southern Indiana; and
- One official transcript from each undergraduate and graduate institution attended. Transcripts and other educational records are official if the issuing institution sends them directly to the Office of Graduate Studies. Failure to submit official transcripts from every institution will delay admission. Course work from one institution reported as transfer credit on another school’s transcript does not constitute an official transcript.
Curriculum
The MHA program is designed in a cohort model, meaning matriculated students will take all courses together toward graduation. |
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