College of Business and Management


Degree Program:  Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Healthcare Management

  • Course:  

    MGM600

    -- Applied Managerial Decision-Making
  • Credits:  4
  • Prerequisites:  NONE
  • Description:  
    Emphasizes the practical application of descriptive and inferential statistics to decision-making made in a managerial role. The following subjects are addressed in the course: data summarization and presentation, data analysis, tests of hypotheses, discrete and continuous distributions, estimation theory, simple and multiple correlation and regression, analysis of variance, multivariate statistics and non-parametric methods. The student will apply the knowledge learned by completing a data aggregation and reduction exercise report and by accomplishing a research report summarizing an application of applied statistics from either the academic or professional literature.


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Sampling of Additional Courses applicable to this degree program

  • Course:  HCM611 -- Managing the Healthcare Organization
  • Credits:  5
  • Prerequisites:  NONE
  • Description:  
    This course provides a general orientation to management practices in the healthcare field. The focus is on applying essential management concepts and processes to the unique social, physical, and emotional environments of healthcare organizations.

  • Course:  HCM621 -- Ethics, Policy, and Law in Healthcare Management
  • Credits:  4
  • Prerequisites:  NONE
  • Description:  
    This course examines key ethical, regulatory, and legal issues related to healthcare management and delivery of healthcare services. Emphasis is placed on the interface of ethics, policy, and the law on medical negligence, malpractice and professional liability, medical records, information management, patient consent, confidentiality, privacy, patient rights and responsibilities, contracts, labor relations, and other current issues.

  • Course:  HCM631 -- Systems in Healthcare
  • Credits:  4
  • Prerequisites:  HCM611  
  • Description:  
    This course focuses on issues facing healthcare systems in a changing environment. Students will examine resource allocation, risk assessment, and financing.



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