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Bachelor of Science Business Administration Online Healthcare Management Degree

This online healthcare management degree is designed to help you stand out and make a difference as a leader. Take the next step in your career with a health management degree. Stand out and make a difference in health management.

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WGU's College of Business programs are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs.

This online healthcare management degree prepares you for an exciting and lucrative future where you can make a difference. Become a healthcare leader.

Healthcare is a booming career field, and today’s successful healthcare managers combine industry-specific knowledge with current skills in business administration. WGU’s bachelor degree in healthcare management is designed to prepare you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to play a key leadership role in a wide range of environments, including doctors’ offices, hospitals, nursing and residential care facilities, and government offices that serve the healthcare industry. An online healthcare management degree allows you to stand out from the competition, boosting your résumé and preparing you for raises, promotions, or a step into a new career field.

This online B.S. in Business Administration – Healthcare Management degree program is designed for working professionals, so you don't have to quit your job or leave your other responsibilities behind to get an online healthcare management degree. You don't have to log in to classes, your assignments don't have due-dates—you're in charge of your education.

Compare this degree: The B.S. in Business Administration – Healthcare Management program is not WGU's only undergraduate degree focused on building leadership skills in the business and administration of healthcare, or what many call the health services management field. You may also be interested in our B.S. Health Services Coordination degree program, or our B.S. in Health Information Management degree program.

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Tuition per 6-month term is

$3,575

Tuition charged per term—rather than per credit—helps students control the ultimate cost of this health management degree. Finish faster, pay less!
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Average salary increase

$10,590

B.S. healthcare management graduates report an average salary increase of $10,590 after completing their WGU degree.
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Earn your healthcare management degree online and prepare for leadership roles.

Healthcare is a business, and the field needs top business leaders to help it run smoothly and efficiently. A healthcare management degree is crucial in helping you gain the skills you need to be an effective leader in healthcare. Stand out from the competition with knowledge in accounting, communications, regulation, financial resource management, and more. You'll be prepared to earn more money, get promotions, and truly make a difference in healthcare. Earning your healthcare management degree online the first step to an exciting future.

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Health management classes that combine business and health care in a seamless curriculum.

The focus of WGU’s healthcare management degree online program is to prepare you with the knowledge, skills, and credentials being sought by today’s employers in a wide range of healthcare facilities and organizations. Take the next step in your health care management career, ready to take on whatever challenges come your way.

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We developed this online program with significant input from experts who serve on our Business Program Council. In this program you'll study course material deemed critical by successful professionals with a firsthand perspective on what it takes to become an effective, sought-after leader in today’s healthcare industry.
Why WGU?

See why WGU is a great fit for your health care degree:

-Earning potential. A degree can dramatically impact your earning potential. After graduation WGU healthcare management students report earning $10,590 more per year.

-Progress on your schedule. Competency-based education means you can move as quickly through your program as you can master the material. You don't have to log in to classes at a certain time, there aren't deadlines for your assignments—you are truly in the driver's seat of your education.

-Entirely online. This bachelor's degree at WGU is 100% online, which means it works wherever you are. You can do your coursework at night after working at your full-time job, on weekends, while you're traveling the world or on vacation—it's entirely up to you.

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Key Subject Areas

Healthcare management classes you'll take include:

Fundamentals for Success in Business

Introduction to Spreadsheets

Best Practices in Management: Projects, Staffing, Scheduling, and Budgeting

Information Technology Management Essentials

Finance Skills for Managers

Concepts in Marketing, Sales, and Customer Contact

Business Environment Applications I: Business Structures and Legal Environment

Business Environment Applications II: Process, Logistics, and Operations

Managing in a Global Business Environment

Innovative and Strategic Thinking

Emotional and Cultural Intelligence

Business Core Capstone: An Integrated Application

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Micro-credentials

You can earn valuable micro-credentials in the following degree options:

Micro-credentials in Healthcare Management:
-Business essentials
-Applied business skills
-Management
-Human resource management

Each of WGU’s Bachelor’s in Business Administration degree programs begin with the same 4 terms of core classes, covering business basics and including valuable micro-credentials. After finishing these core courses, you move forward to courses in your chosen major of Accounting, Business Management, Healthcare Management, Human Resource Management, Marketing, or IT Management.

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A supported, personalized experience.

WGU is different from other online universities—in the best possible ways! Take a look at what we mean:

Faculty Learning Assessment Capstone Alumni Support

Faculty

SUPPORTING YOU:

An entire team of faculty members has one goal in mind: your success. Your Program Mentor is your individually assigned faculty member, providing regular program guidance and instruction from the day you start, to the day you graduate. In addition, Course Instructors provide regular, subject-matter instruction and support, typically one-on-one, throughout each course you take.

Learning

Establish YOUR ROADMAP: A personalized learning plan.

Your program is made up of a series of courses, each a personalized journey toward subject mastery. A preassessment provides insight into what you already know. You’ll then learn what you still need to learn, using online learning resources—available 24/7—along with one-on-one or cohort-based faculty instruction.

Assessment

Learn it, PROVE IT: Show you know your stuff.

WGU measures learning, not time, so each course in your program culminates in an assessment—a test, paper, project, or presentation that allows you to prove what you know. As soon as you’re ready, you take the assessment. Take proctored exams from the comfort of your own home—via webcam, any time of day!

Capstone

Apply it to the REAL WORLD: You’ll solve a problem.

Throughout your program you will focus on acquiring and demonstrating specific competencies. Your program’s capstone experience gives you the opportunity to apply foundational business skills and specific skills from your major in real world scenarios. Your capstone might include a simulation, case studies, or a project that addresses a relevant issue in your industry.

Alumni Support

Once you're a WGU Night Owl, you're ALWAYS a Night Owl.

Continued support after you graduate includes many opportunities for professional development and enrichment, career support, and networking. WGU Night Owls may be independent learners, but they also become highly engaged in our active alumni community through apps, groups, and in-person events.

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The accreditation you need, plus industry respect and recognition.

One important measure of a degree’s value is the reputation of the university where it was earned. When employers, industry leaders, and academic experts hold your alma mater in high esteem, you reap the benefits of that respect. WGU is a pioneer in reinventing higher education for the 21st century, and our quality has been recognized.

Accredited

In addition to WGU's regional accreditation through the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, WGU's College of Business programs are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP).

Respected

The Global Business School Network is a nonprofit organization that partners with business schools, industry, foundations and aid agencies to improve access to quality, locally relevant management and entrepreneurship education for the developing world. With a growing network of over 90 leading business schools on 6 continents, it fosters cross-border networking, knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Recognized

Every student in WGU's HR program is eligible to join our online SHRM virtual student chapter. This organization helps students continue their education and networking with the HR field through events, presentations, and other resources.

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Our programs check all the boxes. If this degree is your goal, get started toward becoming a student today—programs start the first of each month.

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When we say affordable, we mean it.

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WGU students borrow less than half the national average.*

Our goal: You graduate with little or no debt.

The average student loan debt of WGU graduates in 2019 (among those who borrowed) was less than half the national average. WGU’s three-pronged approach to keeping your debt low and your return on investment quick: One, provide useful information and advice on responsible borrowing before enrollment. Two, keep tuition low while you're enrolled. And three, offer degree programs that lead to better-paying jobs after graduation.

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*WGU data: 2019 Annual Report. National data: The Institute for College Access & Success and Student Loan Hero.

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Earn your health management degree for about half what you'd pay elsewhere.

Low tuition and the ability to accelerate make WGU more affordable than most other schools. When you compare us with other programs, WGU’s Bachelor of Science Business Administration – Healthcare Management degree program offers rigorous curriculum with competitive post-graduation results for around half what you'd pay at another university—or even less.

*WGU average annual bachelor’s tuition rates are 57% the national average, compared to national rates reported by IPEDS. WGU average rate does not include rates for WGU B.S. Nursing Prelicensure program. Learn more about WGU's tuition and how it compares.

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Scholarships make our already low tuition even more affordable.

Many scholarship opportunities are available. Here are just a few you may be eligible to apply for:

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Curriculum that ensures you’ve mastered the things employers want you to know.

Program consists of:
41 Courses
Total courses in program

An unofficial estimated 11 courses are fulfilled by your associate degree leaving 30 courses.
I have an associate degree What about transfer credits?

At WGU, we design our curriculum to be timely, relevant, and practical—all to ensure your degree is proof you really know your stuff.

Every course focuses on a set of clearly defined competencies that you must prove you’ve learned—through tests, papers, projects, or other assessments. Demonstrating mastery is how you pass a course, so learning what it takes to be outstanding in your career is at the heart of WGU’s Bachelor of Science Business Administration – Healthcare Management curriculum.

That means what you learn is often directly applicable the next day at work—and it means what you’re doing at work frequently informs the work you’re doing in your courses. It’s all about real-world applicability so every moment spent studying is time well spent.

Courses fulfilled by your associate's degree.

This is an unofficial estimate of your transferable credits. You may receive more or less credits depending upon the specific courses taken to complete your degree and other credits you may have.

Below are the anticipated courses that will be fulfilled based on your indication that you have earned an associate's degree. During the enrollment process this information will be verified.

Applied Probability and Statistics English Composition I Introduction to Communication Principles of Economics Critical Thinking and Logic Applied Algebra Integrated Physical Sciences English Composition II Survey of United States History Introduction to Humanities Introduction to Sociology

Courses in this program.

This online program is composed of the following courses. Some may be waived through transfer from your previous college experience. The rest you will typically complete one at a time as you make your way through your program, working with your Program Mentor each term to build your personalized Degree Plan. You’ll work through each course as quickly as you can study and learn the material. As soon as you’re ready, you’ll pass the assessment, complete the course, and move on. This means you can finish as many courses as you're able in a term at no additional cost.

This health care degree program allows students to earn valuable micro-credentials on their path to a degree. You'll earn the business essentials, applied business skills, marketing, and human resource management micro-credentials as part of this degree program. These micro-credentials will help you boost your résumé before you graduate.

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Business Core

Fundamentals for Success in Business

This introductory course provides students with an overview of the field of business and a basic understanding of how management, organizational structure, communication, and leadership styles affect the business environment. It also introduces them to some of the power skills that help make successful business professionals, including time management, problem solving, emotional intelligence and innovation; while also teaching them the importance of ethics. This course gives students an opportunity to begin to explore their own strengths and passions in relation to the field while also acclimating them to the online competency-based environment.

Introduction to Spreadsheets

The Introduction to Spreadsheets course will help students become proficient in using spreadsheets to analyze business problems. Students will demonstrate competency in spreadsheet development and analysis for business applications (e.g., using essential spreadsheet functions, formulas, tables, charts, etc.). Introduction to Spreadsheets has no prerequisites.

Best Practices in Management: Projects, Staffing, Scheduling, and Budgeting

Best Practices in Management: Projects, Staffing, Scheduling, and Budgeting provides students with an introductory look at the discipline of management and its context within the business environment. Students of this course build on previously mastered competencies by taking a more in-depth look at management as a discipline and how it differs from leadership while further exploring the importance of communication within business. This course provides students with a business generalist overview in the areas of strategic decision-making and operational planning, managerial budgeting, change management, human capital management, staff development, and conflict management.

Information Technology Management Essentials

Information Technology Management Essentials includes topics such as information systems analysis, database resource management, spreadsheet literacy, and computer literacy concepts. This course will help students understand the importance of information technology in an organization and apply databases to solve business problems. This course serves as a preview course for the ITM major. Introduction to Spreadsheets is a prerequisite for this course.

Finance Skills for Managers

This course provides students with an introductory look at the discipline of finance and its context within the business environment. Students gain the knowledge to differentiate between personal and business finance and how they may overlap in a business environment. Students also gain a fundamental knowledge of financial forecasting and budgeting, statement analysis, and decision making. This course provides the student a business generalist overview of the field of finance and builds on previous acquired competencies related to using spreadsheets.

Concepts in Marketing, Sales, and Customer Contact

Concepts in Marketing, Sales, and Customer Contact introduces students to the discipline of marketing and its role within the strategic and operational environments of a business. This course covers fundamental knowledge in the area of marketing planning, including the marketing mix, while also describing basic concepts of brand management, digital marketing, customer relationship management, and personal selling and negotiating. All of this helps students identify the role of marketing within an organization. This course provides students with a business generalist overview of the field of marketing and an exploration of the marketing major.

Business Environment Applications I: Business Structures and Legal Environment

Business Environment Applications 1 provides students with a generalist overview of the business environment and a deeper look at a number of topics that make up the non-discipline areas of business which are required for a business person to be successful within any business environment. The first part of the course focuses on knowledge about organizations and how people operate within organizations, including the areas of organizational theory, structure, and effectiveness. The course then looks at business from a legal perspective with an overview of the legal environment of business. The course will prepare the student to consider specific legal situations and to make legal and ethical decisions related to those situations.

Business Environment Applications II: Process, Logistics, and Operations

Business Environment II: Logistics, Process, and Operations provides students with a generalist overview of the business environment as they explore themes of ethics, problem-solving, and innovative thinking. This course adds to the students’ business skills and knowledge in a number of professional areas. The first part of the course uncovers a series of business processes like project and risk management. The second part gives an introductory-level look at the specialized areas of operations management, supply chains, and logistics. The course finishes with models of change management and how to use them to overcome barriers in organizations.

Managing in a Global Business Environment

Managing in a Global Business Environment provides students with a generalist overview of business from a global perspective, while also developing basic skills and knowledge to help them make strategic decisions, communicate, and develop personal relationships in a global environment. Business today is by its very nature a global environment, and individuals working in business will experience the global nature of business as they progress through their careers. This course builds on previously acquired competencies by providing an overview of U.S. federal laws in relation to doing business in a global environment.

Innovative and Strategic Thinking

This course covers an important part of being a business professional: the knowledge and skills used in building and implementing business strategy. The course helps students build on previously acquired competencies in the areas of management, innovative thinking, and risk management while introducing them to the concepts and theories underpinning business strategy as a general business perspective. The course will help students gain skills in analyzing different business environments and in using quantitative literacy and data analysis in business strategy development and implementation. This course helps to provide students with a generalist overview of the area of business strategy.

Emotional and Cultural Intelligence

Emotional and Cultural Intelligence focuses on key personal awareness skills that businesses request when hiring personnel. Key among those abilities is communication. Students will increase their skills in written, verbal, and nonverbal communication skills. The course then looks at three areas of personal awareness including emotional intelligence (EI), cultural awareness, and ethical self-awareness – building on previously acquired competencies and adding new ones. This course helps start students on a road of self-discovery, cultivating awareness to improve both as a business professional and personally.

Business Core Capstone: An Integrated Application

This course ties together all the skills and knowledge covered in the business common core courses and allows the student to prove their mastery of the competencies by applying them in a simulated business environment. This course will help take the student's knowledge and skills from the theoretical to applicable.

Principles of Financial and Managerial Accounting

Principles of Financial and Managerial Accounting provides students with an introduction to the discipline of accounting and its context within the business environment. In this course, students will learn to differentiate between financial, cost, and managerial accounting and where these accounting types fit into the business environment. This course will help students gain a fundamental knowledge of the budgeting process, how to analyze basic financial statements, and how to use spreadsheets to analyze data. This course provides students with a business generalist overview of the field of accounting and acts as a preview course for the accounting major. The following course is a prerequisite: Introduction to Spreadsheets.

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General Education

Applied Probability and Statistics

Applied Probability and Statistics helps candidates develop competence in the fundamental concepts of basic statistics including introductory algebra and graphing; descriptive statistics; regression and correlation; and probability. Statistical data and probability are used in everyday life, science, business, information technology, and educational settings to make informed decisions about the validity of studies and the effect of data on decisions. This course discusses what constitutes sound research design and how to appropriately model phenomena using statistical data. Additionally, the content covers simple probability calculations based on events that occur in the business and IT industries. No prerequisites are required for this course.

English Composition I

English Composition I introduces candidates to the types of writing and thinking that are valued in college and beyond. Candidates will practice writing in several genres with emphasis placed on writing and revising academic arguments. Instruction and exercises in grammar, mechanics, research documentation, and style are paired with each module so that writers can practice these skills as necessary. Composition I is a foundational course designed to help candidates prepare for success at the college level. There are no prerequisites for English Composition I.

Introduction to Communication

This introductory communication course allows candidates to become familiar with the fundamental communication theories and practices necessary to engage in healthy professional and personal relationships. Candidates will survey human communication on multiple levels and critically apply the theoretical grounding of the course to interpersonal, intercultural, small group, and public presentational contexts. The course also encourages candidates to consider the influence of language, perception, culture, and media on their daily communicative interactions. In addition to theory, candidates will engage in the application of effective communication skills through systematically preparing and delivering an oral presentation. By practicing these fundamental skills in human communication, candidates become more competent communicators as they develop more flexible, useful, and discriminatory communicative practices in a variety of contexts. Note: There are references within this video to Taskstream. If Taskstream is not part of your student experience, please disregard, and locate your task(s) within your course.

Principles of Economics

Principles of Economics provides students with the knowledge they need to be successful managers, including basic economic theories related to markets and how markets function. This course starts by defining economics, differentiating between microeconomics and macroeconomics, and explaining the fundamental economic principles of each. It then looks at microeconomics and how it is used to make business and public policy decisions, including the principles of supply, demand, and elasticity, market efficiency, cost of production, and different market structures. The course finishes by looking at macroeconomics and how it is used to make business and public policy decisions, including measurement of macroeconomic variables, aggregate supply and demand, the concepts of an open economy, and how trade policies influence domestic and international markets.

Critical Thinking and Logic

Reasoning and Problem Solving helps candidates internalize a systematic process for exploring issues that takes them beyond an unexamined point of view and encourages them to become more self-aware thinkers by applying principles of problem identification and clarification, planning and information gathering, identifying assumptions and values, analyzing and interpreting information and data, reaching well-founded conclusions, and identifying the role of critical thinking in disciplines and professions.

Applied Algebra

Applied Algebra is designed to help candidates develop competence in working with functions, working with the algebra of functions, and using some applied properties of functions. Candidates will learn how to apply different kinds of functions to relevant, real-life examples. From there, the algebra of several families of functions will be explored, including linear, polynomial, exponential, and logistic functions. Candidates will also learn about relevant, applicable mathematical properties of each family of functions, including rate of change, concavity, maximizing/minimizing, and asymptotes. These properties will be used to solve problems related to a WGU major and make sense of problems in everyday living. Candidates should complete Applied Probability and Statistics or its equivalent prior to engaging in Applied Algebra.

Integrated Physical Sciences

This course provides students with an overview of the basic principles and unifying ideas of the physical sciences: physics, chemistry, and earth sciences. Course materials focus on scientific reasoning and practical, everyday applications of physical science concepts to help students integrate conceptual knowledge with practical skills.

English Composition II

English Composition II introduces candidates to the types of research and writing that are valued in college and beyond. Candidates will practice writing, with emphasis placed on research, writing, and revising an academic argument. Instruction and exercises in grammar, mechanics, research documentation, and style are paired with each module so that writers can practice these skills as necessary. Composition II is a foundational course designed to help candidates prepare for success at the college level. Composition I is the prerequisite for Composition II.

Survey of United States History

This course presents a broad and thematic survey of U.S. history from European colonization to the mid-twentieth century. Students will explore how historical events and major themes in American history have affected a diverse population.

Introduction to Humanities

This introductory humanities course allows candidates to practice essential writing, communication, and critical thinking skills necessary to engage in civic and professional interactions as mature, informed adults. Whether through studying literature, visual and performing arts, or philosophy, all humanities courses stress the need to form reasoned, analytical, and articulate responses to cultural and creative works. Studying a wide variety of creative works allows candidates to more effectively enter the global community with a broad and enlightened perspective.

Introduction to Sociology

This course teaches students to think like sociologists, or, in other words, to see and understand the hidden rules, or norms, by which people live, and how they free or restrain behavior. Students will learn about socializing institutions, such as schools and families, as well as workplace organizations and governments. Participants will also learn how people deviate from the rules by challenging norms and how such behavior may result in social change, either on a large scale or within small groups.

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Human Resources

Organizational Behavior

Organizational Behavior explores how to lead and manage effectively in diverse business environments. The course requires students to demonstrate the ability to apply organizational leadership theories and management strategies in a series of scenario-based problems.

Introduction to Human Resource Management

This course provides an introduction to the management of human resources, the function within an organization that focuses on recruitment, management, and direction for the people who work in the organization. Students will be introduced to topics such as strategic workforce planning and employment; compensation and benefits; training and development; employee and labor relations; and occupational health, safety, and security.

Employment Law

This course reviews the legal and regulatory framework surrounding employment, including recruitment, termination, and discrimination law. The course topics include employment-at-will, EEO, ADA, OSHA, and other laws affecting the workplace. This course covers how to analyze current trends and issues in employment law and apply this knowledge to manage risk effectively in the employment relationship.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation and Benefits develops competence in the design and implementation of compensation and benefits systems in an organization. The total rewards perspective integrates tangible rewards (e.g., salary, bonuses) with employee benefits (e.g., health insurance, retirement plan) and intangible rewards (e.g., location, work environment). This perspective allows students to use all forms of rewards fairly and effectively to enable job satisfaction and organizational performance. There are no prerequisites.

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Healthcare Management

Healthcare Delivery Systems, Regulation, and Compliance

This course provides an overview of the U.S. healthcare system and focuses on developing an understanding of the various sectors and roles involved in this complex industry. Policy and compliance issues are also addressed to facilitate an appreciation for the highly regulated nature of healthcare delivery.

Technology Applications in Healthcare

This course explores how technology continues to change and influence the healthcare industry. Practical managerial applications are explored as well as the legal, ethical, and practical aspects of access to health and disease information. Ensuring the protection of private health information is also emphasized.

Healthcare Values and Ethics

This course explores ethical standards and considerations common to the healthcare environment such as access to care, confidentiality, the allocation of limited resources, and billing practices. This course also focuses on the distinct value system associated with the healthcare industry, as well as the values of professionalism.

Healthcare Operations Management

This course builds upon basic principles of management, organizational behavior, and leadership. Specific processes and business principles for managing operations in interdependent and multi-disciplinary healthcare organizations are explored. Marketing strategies, communication skills, and the ability to establish and maintain relationships while ensuring productivity that is efficient, safe, and meets the needs of all stakeholders is emphasized.

Healthcare Research and Statistics

This course builds upon an understanding of research methods and quantitative analysis. Concepts of population health, epidemiology, and evidence-based practices provide the foundation for understanding the importance of data for informing healthcare organizational decisions.

Healthcare Quality Improvement and Risk Management

This course emphasizes principles of quality management and risk management in order to ensure safety, maximize patient outcomes, and continuously improve organizational outcomes. This course also examines the broader impact of organizational culture and its influence on productivity, quality, and risk.

Financial Resource Management in Healthcare

Financial Resource Management in Healthcare This course examines the financial environment of the healthcare industry including principles involved in managed care. It also explores the revenue and expense structures for different sectors within the industry while emphasizing funding and reimbursement practices of healthcare.

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Business Management

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Operations and Supply Chain Management provides a streamlined introduction to how organizations efficiently produce goods and services, determine supply chain management strategies, and measure performance. Emphasis is placed on integrative topics essential for managers in all disciplines, such as supply chain management, product development, and capacity planning. This course will guide students in analyzing processes, managing quality for both services and products, and measuring performance while creating value along the supply chain in a global environment. Topics include forecasting, product and service design, process design and location analysis, capacity planning, management of quality and quality control, inventory management, scheduling, supply chain management, and performance measurement.

Business Management Tasks

Business Management Tasks addresses important concepts needed to effectively manage a business. Topics include understanding the cost-quality relationship, using various types of graphical charts in operations management, managing innovation, and developing strategies for working with individuals and groups.

Project Management

Project Management prepares students to manage projects from start to finish within any organizational structure. The course presents a view into different project management methods and delves into topics such as project profiling and phases, constraints, building the project team, scheduling, and risk. This course helps students grasp the full scope of future projects and apply the proper management approaches to complete a project. This course features practice in each of the project phases as students learn to strategically apply project management tools and techniques to help organizations achieve their goals.

Quantitative Analysis For Business

Quantitative Analysis for Business explores various decision-making models, including expected value models, linear programming models, and inventory models. This course helps student learn to analyze data by using a variety of analytic tools and techniques to make better business decisions. In addition, it covers developing project schedules using the Critical Path Method. Other topics include calculating and evaluating formulas, measures of uncertainty, crash costs, and visual representation of decision-making models using electronic spreadsheets and graphs. This course has no prerequisites.

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Healthcare Data

Healthcare Management and Strategy

Healthcare Management and Strategy This course builds upon basic principles of strategic management and explores healthcare organizational structures and processes. The importance of the collaborative nature and interrelationships among business functions is emphasized. Creating a healthcare vision and designing business plans within a healthcare environment is also examined.

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Capstone

Healthcare Management Capstone

This course is the culminating experience and assessment of healthcare business administration. This course requires the student to integrate and synthesize managerial skills with healthcare knowledge, resulting in a high quality final project that demonstrates professional managerial proficiency.

Plan to work hard: Program requirements and expectations.

The B.S. Business Administration – Healthcare Management program is an all-online program that you will complete by studying and working independently with instruction and support from WGU faculty. You will be expected to complete at least 12 competency units (WGU's equivalent of the credit hour) each 6-month term. (Each course is typically 3 or 4 units).

The first person you speak with at WGU will be your Enrollment Counselor, who can explain requirements and expectations in more detail. You can also read more about each course in the Program Guide.

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Special Requirements

Capstone project: To help you prepare for a career in healthcare management, this program includes a capstone project. Using knowledge acquired through your studies at WGU, you will complete a final assignment that challenges you to propose a solution to a real-world business issue relevant to today’s healthcare industry.

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Curriculum developed with guidance from healthcare industry experts and business leaders.

To ensure our degree programs are consistent with the needs and demands of today’s workplace, we develop our courses with input from program councils comprising nationally recognized experts in their respective fields. These council members offer guidance on key competencies to be expected from successful WGU graduates.
How we're different: Flexible, competency-based education puts working adults in the driver's seat.

Professional responsibilities. Family obligations. Personal commitments. At WGU, we understand schedules are tight and oftentimes unpredictable for today’s business professionals. That’s why we offer a flexible, personalized approach to how online education should be in today’s world. No interrupting your work or family obligations. No rigid class schedules. No barriers to earning your degree on your own terms. Just a solid, career-focused education that dovetails seamlessly with your current lifestyle.

Designed for working adults.

At WGU, you earn your degree by proving what you’ve learned—from your studies or your work and life experience. How quickly you progress is largely up to you. You’re not committed to attend class at a certain time, complete homework on a given schedule, or log “attendance” hours.

Once you’ve mastered the concepts in your coursework, you’ll prove your competency through tests, papers, projects, or other assessments. You’ll build solid professional credentials specifically designed to help you prepare for career advancement—without wasting time relearning skills and knowledge you’ve already acquired.

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Thrive in a leadership role in healthcare administration.

Maybe you’re looking for a smart way to advance your career in the healthcare industry. Or perhaps you’re a business professional ready to add healthcare-specific credentials. Either way, a WGU bachelor’s degree in healthcare management is a great way to prepare for your next career move.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics anticipates very strong demand for health services managers through 2029, with an impressive 32% projected growth rate, which is much higher than the 4% average for all occupations.

—U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
What jobs are available in healthcare management? The possibilities are almost endless.

The healthcare industry is extensive and complex, requiring leaders with specialized knowledge and credentials. The right education and training can prepare you for a broad range of rewarding positions, such as:
Nursing home administrators

Clinic managers

Healthcare consultants
Hospital administrators

Health services managers

Web-based health education firm managers
Pharmaceutical firm managers

Community health center managers

Insurance company specialists
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Employers said that WGU graduates were prepared for their jobs.

They Perform.

Employers rated WGU graduates' job performance as very good or excellent.

They Wow.

Employers said their WGU graduates have exceeded their expectations.

They're Confident.

Graduates said the majority of their coursework was related to their jobs.

They're Working.

Graduates are working full-time.

They're Satisfied.

Graduates said their degrees were worth the cost of their education.

Source: 2018 Harris Poll survey of 300 employers; 2018 Harris Poll Online survey of 1,374 new college graduates nationwide compared with survey of 1,147 WGU graduates; Gallup-Purdue Index 2018
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Admission requirements unique to this degree.
For undergraduate business programs, there are currently no additional admission requirements beyond the general admission requirements.

NOTE: Students will not have the option or ability to waive or remove transfer credit in order to earn a micro-credential. Their coursework is counted towards their degree, but they will not earn the micro-credential if they have brought in more than 50% of the transfer credit for that intended micro-credential.

NOTE: You do not need to take the ACT or SAT to be admitted to this program. Learn why we don't require these tests.

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WGU seeks to admit individuals who have the capacity and determination to complete a rigorous WGU degree program…and graduate. The admission process is designed to help you and the university reach an informed decision about your likelihood of success.

At WGU we want you to graduate, not just enroll. Consequently, not every applicant is admitted because not every individual has the capacity and determination to complete a rigorous WGU degree program.
Frequently asked questions about healthcare management at WGU.
What roles can you fill with a bachelor’s degree in healthcare management?

There are many jobs that a degree in healthcare management can prepare you for, including:

Healthcare manager

Nursing home manager

Health insurance manager

Community health manager
What kind of degree is healthcare management?

Healthcare management combines business and healthcare knowledge to help students thrive. Typically this degree is housed in a business college, as it relies on many business principles to help students be successful in their careers.

Is healthcare management a good degree?

If you're hoping to work in a healthcare setting without being involved in direct patient care, a healthcare management degree could be the perfect fit for you. Healthcare management prepares students for the crucial role of administering and organizing healthcare facilities and programs for all kinds of organizations.

How long does it take to become a healthcare manager?

In order to become a healthcare manager you'll likely need at least a bachelor's degree, which typically takes four years. If you choose an online degree program that allows you to accelerate, you may be able to graduate faster.
What skills can you gain in a BS Healthcare Management program?

In a healthcare management program you will learn many skills, including:

Organizational behavior

Employment law

Healthcare systems

Healthcare values and ethics

Healthcare statistics

Financial resource management

Project management

Strategy
What is the outlook of the healthcare administration industry?

The BLS shows that healthcare management is expected to grow 18% by 2028, much faster than the national average. This is largely due to the constant growth and change of the healthcare industry, from longer life expectancies to new technologies. Healthcare managers play a vital role in ensuring the future of healthcare is safe.
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