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Master of Business Administration: Healthcare Administration

Gain a Competitive Edge in Medical and Health Services Management

Online

15 Months

45 Credit Hours

$559 per Credit

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Direct Your Online MBA Toward Healthcare-Related Roles

In the Healthcare Administration concentration, you can add healthcare-related business expertise to your online MBA degree program, giving you a competitive edge in medical and health services management careers. Pursue roles in clinical management, healthcare consulting, health informatics management, hospital management, medical records management, nursing home administration and more.

With innovative knowledge and skills from Eastern Oregon University’s online MBA in Healthcare Administration, you’ll become a standout candidate for these rewarding positions. With your expertise plus experience, you could advance to a top-level position as a chief financial officer (CFO) or chief operations officer (COO).

Healthcare Administration Concentration Details

  • Explore today’s complex healthcare landscape
  • Learn from faculty with real-world experience
  • Pursue top healthcare administration jobs
  • Enhance the delivery of efficient, quality healthcare
  • Boost your salary potential with leadership skills
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Healthcare Management Online Courses

The Healthcare Administration curriculum was developed with the consultation of healthcare experts. It includes five courses with topics in legal and ethical healthcare, healthcare finance, population health, urban and rural healthcare policy, healthcare technology and more. Ultimately, you’ll hone skills that help you make a powerful difference in improving patient outcomes using strategic administrative decision making.

Each course is delivered by dedicated faculty who help rank EOU among the Top Master’s Programs in Oregon.1 Faculty members are subject matter experts who will share their real-world experience in the online classroom. Even when studying in an online format, you’ll be able to meet with faculty regularly and benefit from their individualized support.

Healthcare Administration Concentration Required Courses

Employing real clinical environment scenarios, this course presents the ethical and legal challenges and implications that healthcare administration personnel face. Focus is on the issues surrounding legal precedence and ethical dilemmas arising in healthcare environments.

This course will provide students with practical financial management information that will help assist them with healthcare financial management knowledge and a better understanding of healthcare finance to include the role of ICD-10, commercial insurance payers and public insurance payers. This course shall explore advanced principles in healthcare financial management that cover acute care and ambulatory care environments. In addition, this course will provide students with the essential concepts of healthcare finance forecasting and strategic managerial budgeting.

Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of diseases, health conditions or events among populations and the application of that study to control health problems. By understanding and analyzing the distribution and determinants of diseases, health conditions or events among populations, the focus is on examining the impact of infectious epidemics, types of epidemics and outbreaks on healthcare operations.

Provides an essential understanding of how health policy and laws are formulated, enacted, implemented and enforced. The broad and changing context of national and state policy and laws can differentially impact healthcare and public health systems and decisions related to operations and patient care for urban and rural enterprises. Such dynamics contribute to the development and effectiveness of healthcare policy and planning.

Special Topics. Students must have graduate standing to register for this course.

In 1995, Harvard Business Professor Clayton Christensen coined the term “disruptive innovation” while studying how and why certain innovations transform industries. Considered in the early 2000s to be convoluted, expensive and dissatisfying to consumers, disruptive technology is gradually changing the face of healthcare as we know it. Innovation is at the forefront of the challenges facing healthcare leaders, and leaders need to continually evaluate emerging technologies in light of their impact on consumers and the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare operations.

The online MBA program takes 15 months to complete, on average. Your completion time will depend on whether you study part-time or full-time and how many credits you transfer.

In fully online courses, you’ll gain a comprehensive overview of key leadership, management and budgeting strategies. Following the core content, you’ll complete the degree with a choice of coursework that suits your career path. Pursue an optional concentration in Accounting or Healthcare Administration, or an individualized combination of elective and concentration courses to round out your MBA.

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Reach Your Full Potential With a Healthcare Administration Degree

The online MBA in Healthcare Administration helps you attain leadership roles in hospitals, outpatient centers, providers’ offices, nursing facilities and more. These organizations consistently need human resource managers, operations managers, program managers and training managers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that medical and health services managers in the U.S. will have about 61,400 annual job openings from 2023 to 2033, reflecting a rapidly expanding healthcare industry.2

Medical and Health Services Managers $117,960 per year2

Administrative Services and Facilities Managers $106,880 per year3

Career Outlook

Explore More Online MBA Concentrations

You can customize your MBA program at EOU to align with your career goals by either choosing a concentration, or you can complete a general MBA with your choice of electives from a list of diverse topics.

We also offer this MBA with a concentration in Accounting.

Frequently Asked Questions

Explore our frequently asked questions for in-depth answers. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, reach out to us.

The MBA program offers two optional concentrations: A STEM-designated Accounting concentration and a Healthcare Administration concentration. You can declare a concentration to complete your degree or select from numerous elective courses (including concentration courses).

Topics of approved electives include business and the environment, emotional intelligence, alternative business strategies and disaster recovery. You could study agribusiness, tax regulations or even advanced accounting. Yet another option is a three-credit-hour course for a topic of your choosing. Learn more about MBA coursework.

You are not required to choose a concentration in the MBA program. You can also complete a general MBA with your choice of electives (including concentration courses). Learn more about MBA coursework.

The Healthcare Administration concentration includes five courses. Learn more about MBA coursework.

The MBA in Healthcare Administration requires 45 total credit hours, with 15 credit hours in the concentration. Learn more about MBA coursework.

The Healthcare Administration concentration offers targeted expertise for careers at the intersection of business and healthcare. With curriculum approved by healthcare leaders, you’ll discover business applications in epidemiology, healthcare budgeting and finance, healthcare policy, population health, technology in healthcare and more. Learn more about the Healthcare Administration concentration.

With concentration courses in healthcare administration, you can become a medical and health services manager ready to improve patient outcomes using strategic administrative decision making. Potential job titles include administrative services manager, director of patient care, clinic administrator, healthcare administrator, hospital manager, medical records manager and more. Learn more about the Healthcare Administration concentration.

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  1. Online Master’s Colleges. “Top Online Master’s Programs in Oregon.” Retrieved May 30, 2025, from https://www.onlinemasterscolleges.com/oregon-state-online-masters-programs/.
  2. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. Occupational Outlook Handbook. “Medical and Health Services Managers.” Retrieved June 3, 2025, from https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/medical-and-health-services-managers.htm.
  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. Occupational Outlook Handbook. “Administrative Services and Facilities Managers.” Retrieved June 3, 2025, from https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/administrative-services-managers.htm.