The application for our Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) will be available beginning on Feb. 27, 2025. Prior to that date, please contact April Smith (April.Smith@jefferson.edu) with any questions about the program.

The Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) program provides graduate training in modern healthcare administration. The program is designed to prepare graduates for leadership and management positions aimed at improving health service delivery across all sectors, including provider, payor and integrated organizations. 

All coursework is 100% online and uses an accelerated term format designed for working professionals, early careerists and new graduates. This enables students to focus on building one set of skills at a time, but still graduate at the same pace as traditional graduate degree programs.

The program offers seven concentration options:

  • Operational Excellence
  • Healthcare Quality & Safety
  • Population Health
  • Global Health
  • Health Equity
  • Post-acute Care
  • Compliance & Regulation

Program Features

  • 7-8 week accelerated semesters delivered 100% online
  • Cohort model builds lifelong relationships and collaboration among participants
  • No on-site management intensives or required in-person residencies
  • Partnership with Kanbar College of Design, Engineering & Commerce School of Business leverages business expertise with specialization in healthcare
  • Expert faculty bring extensive real-world experience to courses
  • Live virtual cohorts provide deep dives into pertinent topics needed for healthcare administration and encourage networking opportunities for the students
  • Practicums completed using work projects (working professionals) or projects from partner healthcare organizations, including Jefferson Health and Jefferson Health Plans 
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification earned during the first term
  • Executive coaches and leadership aptitude testing offered to all students for personal and professional development

Program Outcomes

The Master of Healthcare Administration program prepares leaders to navigate and lead transformational change across all healthcare sectors. Upon completion of the program, students will be able to:

  • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of health services financing, organization and delivery
  • Apply management and leadership skills to effectively lead interdisciplinary teams and manage change
  • Leverage data and analytics to assess the effectiveness of interventions and evaluate and prioritize resource allocation
  • Create effective written and oral communications and presentations to inspire and engage key stakeholders
  • Utilize critical thinking and problem-solving skills to design and implement performance improvement strategies at a system level
  • Develop systematic approaches to drive broad-impacting improvements across a healthcare organization in non-clinical and clinical outcomes
  • Practice the foundational concepts of quality and safety management, improvement and analysis
  • Distinguish the various evaluation methods used to externally and internally assess a healthcare organization’s performance
  • Interpret laws and regulations governing healthcare sectors 
  • Solve complex healthcare challenges with professionalism, ethics and transparency 

Program Audiences

Healthcare administration students come from a variety of backgrounds including:

  • Recent college graduates with undergraduate majors in healthcare administration, public health and policy and business. Pre-med or pre-professional students who have decided to pursue an alternative path in healthcare are also potential candidates
  • Early careerists with relevant work experience in healthcare administration who want to advance in their career
  • Experienced non-clinical leaders, such as administrators, health IT specialists and analysts and project managers looking for senior leadership opportunities 
  • Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, therapists and other clinicians looking to transition into an administrative leadership role