Why Study Health Care Management at SHP?

According to the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, the need for medical health service managers is expected to grow 17 percent through 2024. An advanced degree will enable graduates to accelerate their careers in one of today’s fastest-growing occupational fields.

Program Highlights

The program is offered part-time, allowing students to work full-time while pursuing an advanced degree. We offer three specialized tracks: Management and Leadership, Psychiatric Rehabilitation, and Health Care Informatics.

The Healthcare Management Master’s program offers four specialized tracks:

• The Healthcare Informatics Track is offered jointly with the Department of Health Informatics. Courses in this track cover the methodologies behind health informatics applications, introduce biomedical data analysis, and provide an overview of the concepts, techniques and software used in clinical decision-making. After completing the master’s program, students have the option to continue on to earn a graduate certificate. Credits earned during the master’s program can be applied to the certificate. Learn more about the Healthcare Informatics graduate certificate.
• The Management and Leadership track is designed for wide range of health professionals.  This track is especially suited for current or aspiring healthcare supervisors and managers who are seeking to broaden and deepen their management and administrative skill-set.  The track offers an ideal blend of structure and flexibility, combining foundational course requirements related to management, leadership, finance and strategic planning, as well as an extensive choice of track courses and electives.
• The Behavioral Health track is for managers and supervisors in the mental healthcare service system. They gain the knowledge and technological skills to ensure resources are managed effectively, and program and patient outcomes are achieved. Experienced faculty guide students through coursework on management, leadership, finance, strategic planning and evidence based & promising practices in Behavioral Health.
• The Gerontology track allows students focused on working with the aging population to gain a healthcare management experience. Five core courses include topics such as healthcare management and leadership as well as financial management in healthcare. The student also completes five courses specific to gerontology. Topics include social and healthcare policy for the older adult and long term care administration.

The program is unique in offering Four specialized tracks:

1. Management and Leadership
2. Biomedical Informatics (in cooperation with the School of Health Professions Department of Health Informatics)
3. Behavioral Health
4. Gerontology

Our Program also features:

• Convenience of entirely online course offerings
• Potential to matriculate into a doctoral degree program
• A highly structured capstone, graduate project

• Growing network of successful alumni
• Outstanding program faculty with extensive experience working in large healthcare organizations
• Enrollment in a university ranked #1 nationally by College Factual in best colleges for health professions.

• Application deadlines: Summer deadline is April 15 ; Fall deadline is March 1 ; Spring deadline is November 15
• Minimum of a bachelor of science degree with an overall GPA of 3.0 or greater
• A minimum of two to three years full-time experience working in the healthcare industry
• Two letters of recommendation using the Recommender Form
• Structured personal statement
• Official transcripts from all academic institutions attended
• Resume/CV
• Completed application
• Payment of application fee

A two to four-page personal statement of career interest and relevancy of MSHM program to achieving professional goals. Essays must address all the following points:

• How the applicant found out about the program and what attracted them to apply to this specific program.
• Why the applicant is interested in pursuing a master degree in health care management and how previous education and career experiences have prepared them for it.
• What attributes and accomplishments strengthen the applicant’s candidacy, but may not be evident from letters of support, transcripts or other elements of the application package.
• A description of how at least three of the health care management skills/competencies covered in the curriculum apply to the applicant’s current career in health care.
• The last “course” in the program that students take is a capstone project known as “Graduate Project,” where students are required to synthesize and apply the knowledge/skills they have acquired in the program. Students often pursue a work- related project in the areas of process improvement, strategic planning, among many others. As such, applicants should describe a general overview of, and preliminary ideas for, the type of project(s) they may be interested in conducting for the Graduate Project.
• The essay should also describe plans which the applicant has for utilizing the degree and the knowledge/skills acquired from the program, to help achieve long term career goals.

The Master of Science in Health Care Management is a 36-credit program consisting of the following:

• An 18-credit core of courses [6 courses*]
• Four specialty tracks*
• A 6-credit capstone graduate project
• * Gerontology Track :15 Core credits, 15 specialty course credits & 6-credit capstone graduate Project

Questions? Please give us a call with any questions you have about the program.

• Office of Admissions: 973-972-5454
• Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Healthcare Management: 973-972-8576