College of Business & Management

About Technical Management with a Health Information Management Specialty

If you have previously earned an associate degree in Health Information Management (HIM), take the next step in your education. Earn your bachelor's degree in Technical Management specializing in HIM. Upon completion, you'll be poised for success in a field in which 49% job growth is expected by 20101. Positions abound in hospitals, physician offices, clinics, and even in government agencies, software and IT vendor firms, insurance companies, and consulting firms. Some of the positions available with a bachelor's degree include HIM department director, health information system manager, chief privacy officer, clinical data specialist, information security manager, and product marketing specialist.

Program at a Glance

Degree: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (in New York, Bachelor of Professional Studies in Technical Management; in Ohio, Bachelor of Technical Management)
Major/Concentration: Health Information Management
College: Business & Management
Semesters: 8 full time
Minimum credit hours required for graduation: 122
Accelerated option: Earn your bachelor's degree in as few as 2 years if you attend class year-round2.
Location: Find out which DeVry University locations offer this Technical Management degree program or explore taking classed through our online degree programs.

NOTE: The Technical Management (BSTM) with Health Information Management specialty offered Online is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM, www.cahiim.org)

DeVry University offers you a great deal of flexibility. You can take your classes onsite, online, or a mix of both—whatever best fits your schedule and your life.

Course Highlights

Course Areas

Hours

General Education

40

Business, Management, and Technology

27

Electives

25

Technical Specialty

30

To learn more about required and elective courses for the Business Administration bachelor's degree program, as well as to view individual course descriptions and requirements for each concentration, please see the undergraduate academic catalog.

Graduate Success

At DeVry University, everything we do is focused on your career success. The proof is in the numbers. For October '07, February '08, and June '08 classes, 94% of U.S. DeVry Technical Management graduates were employed in their field at an average salary of $50,105. (Of graduates who actively pursued and obtained employment and those who were already employed in education-related careers within 180 days of graduation.)

1 Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09 Edition, Accountants and Auditors, http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos001.htm.
2 Through articulation agreements between DeVry University and local community colleges, you can earn a Technical Management degree with a technical specialty in health information management from DeVry University in less than 2 years. Students from Northern Virginia Community College, Montgomery Community College, Baltimore City Community College, Prince George's Community College, and Hagerstown Business College can use their associate degrees to satisfy the first 2 years of the DeVry University BSTM program.