Bachelor’s Degree in Healthcare Administration
The healthcare field needs professionals to help improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare, while controlling costs. DeVry University’s Bachelor’s Degree in Healthcare Administration with a Specialization in Healthcare Management can support and advance your commitment to serving others with the knowledge and ability to be effective in a variety of roles.
Get to know Our Healthcare Administration Degree Program
A Healthcare Management Degree Specialization from DeVry can help prepare you to play an important role in areas such as healthcare policy, managed care, insurance, information systems and finance. Our Healthcare Management Specialization program — whether taken online or through a hybrid online and on-site format — strongly emphasizes health services. This helps you gain additional skills through fundamental business and management courses designed to help you adapt and succeed when faced with ever-changing workplace challenges.
Healthcare managers may oversee the computerization of patients’ records and ensure the information is secure, recruit new employees, implement new technologies, facilitate changes in healthcare regulations and help evolve new models of patient care.
Classes Start Every 8 Weeks
Earn your Bachelor's Degree in Healthcare Administration with Healthcare Management Specialization in as little as 2 years + 8 months*—or even more quickly with qualifying transfer credits.
*Not including breaks. Assumes year-round, full-time enrollment.
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What You'll Learn
The Bachelor’s in Healthcare Administration with a Specialization in Healthcare Management covers the following:
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Managed Care and Health Insurance
Explore health insurance products and managed-care approaches to the financing and delivery of healthcare services in the US. -
Healthcare Policy
Study political, social, economic and technological influences that underlie US policy-making processes as well as cultural values and beliefs regarding health. -
Health Services Management
Understand the unique characteristics of US healthcare systems and key trends, major system components and their interrelationships, and internal and external influences on delivery of services and healthcare professions. -
Human Resource Management
Learn to manage corporate human resources including planning, staffing and rewards, as well as developing and maintaining positions and people.
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Health Rights and Responsibilities
Become familiar with legal and ethical issues of healthcare services with understanding of legal relationships among providers, payers and patients, and issues of professional liability. -
Health Services Finance
Gain an understanding of healthcare costs and expenditures. -
Health Services Information Systems
Apply hardware and software options for managing patient records, insurance and billing data and developing and maintaining health services information system. -
Marketing
Study general marketing principles and strategies, understanding of how market information and product life cycle affect product and production design, forecasting techniques, interdependencies between marketing and operations functions and selling skills.
32% PROJECTED GROWTH
According to the BLS, on a national level, employment of medical and health services managers is projected to grow 32% from 2020-20301.
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Career Opportunities
Graduates with our Bachelor’s Degree in Healthcare Administration with a Specialization in Healthcare Management may consider careers such as:
- Administrative Services Manager
Administrative service managers direct and coordinate administrative services within a care facility to encourage maximum efficiency.
- Admissions Coordinator
Admissions coordinators write the processes that dictate admissions criteria for a care facility. They recommend changes where necessary and develop promotional materials to assist incoming patients.
- Assistant Administrator
Assistant administrators work under the supervision of a care facility administrator to outline, manage and oversee the administration of care.
- Business Office Supervisor
Business office supervisors oversee the activities within the business office of a care facility. They observe the function of the office to ensure that tasks are being performed efficiently and recommend process changes where efficiency could be improved.
- Health Services Manager
Health service managers plan the execution and coordination of healthcare services being provided within a care facility department. They may be in charge of the entire facility or a specific area. In some cases, they manage a medical practice group.
- Healthcare Administrators
Healthcare administrators work within the administrative area of a care facility and manage high-value decisions for the facility. They deal with policy and budgets in order to increase revenues and patient care quality and volume.
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Healthcare Administration Degree Courses
DeVry's healthcare administration degree courses can help provide you with the necessary management skills you need to pursue a career in the health industry. The program includes courses such as human resource management, health services finance, managed care and health insurance, to name a few.
At DeVry, we’re on a mission to help you not only learn skills specific to your area of interest, like healthcare administration, but also prepare you for the workplace of tomorrow by covering general studies topics such as principles of ethics, technical writing, economics and more.
Program-Specific Courses
Healthcare Management
| BUSN319 | Marketing |
| HIM335 | Health Information Systems and Networks with Lab |
| HIM370 | Healthcare Data Security and Privacy |
| HIM410 | Health Information Financial Management |
| MGMT410 | Human Resource Management |
Core Degree Courses
Business and Technology
| ACCT212 | Financial Accounting |
| ACCT346 | Managerial Accounting |
| BIS155 | Data Analysis with Spreadsheets with Lab |
| BIS245 | Database Essentials for Business with Lab |
| BUSN115 | Introduction to Business and Technology |
| BUSN278 | Budgeting and Forecasting |
| BUSN350 | Business Analysis |
| COMP100 | Computer Applications for Business with Lab |
| MGMT303 | Principles of Management |
| MGMT404 | Project Management |
Health Services
| HSM310 | Introduction to Health Services Management |
| HSM320 | Health Rights and Responsibilities |
| HSM330 | Health Services Information Systems |
| HSM340 | Health Services Finance |
| HSM410 | Healthcare Policy |
| HSM420 | Managed Care and Health Insurance |
Senior Project
| BUSN460 | Senior Project |
General Degree Courses
Communication Skills
| ENGL112 | Composition |
| ENGL135 | Advanced Composition |
| ENGL216 | Technical Writing |
One of:
| SPCH275 | Public Speaking |
| SPCH276 | Intercultural Communication |
Humanities2
| LAS432 | Technology, Society, and Culture |
One of:
| ETHC334 | Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace |
| ETHC445 | Principles of Ethics |
One of:
| HUMN303 | Introduction to the Humanities |
| HUMN304 | Multi-Ethnic Humanities |
Social Sciences
| ECON312 | Principles of Economics |
| SOCS185 | Culture and Society |
One of:
| SOCS325 | Environmental Sociology |
| SOCS350 | Cultural Diversity in the Professions |
Mathematics & Natural Sciences
| MATH114 | Algebra for College Students |
| MATH221 | Statistics for Decision-Making |
| SCI228 | Nutrition, Health and Wellness with Lab |
Personal & Professional Development
| CARD405 | Career Development |
| COLL148 | Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving |
Healthcare Management Coursework Preview
DeVry’s Bachelor’s Degree in Healthcare Administration program includes courses that explore the intricacies of the dynamic healthcare industry. Here’s a sampling of the program-specific courses you will take:
Health Information Systems and Networks with Lab3
Build on what you’ve learned about healthcare information systems by applying theory to practice through lab work. This course with lab covers both health information systems and technologies. You’ll also learn how these technologies operate across an organization.
Healthcare Data Security and Privacy3
Understanding data security and privacy may be critical to any role in the healthcare industry. Through this course, you’ll learn the processes that organizations put in to place to help protect patient data. You’ll also learn how to access and disclose such health information and explore the laws that surround access to confidential patient information.
Health Information Financial Management3
While understanding patient privacy and health rights and responsibilities is helpful for a role in healthcare management, so is foundational knowledge in financial management. You’ll learn about accounting systems as applicable to the field of healthcare, reimbursement methods, finance and resource management and more.
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What can I expect to learn throughout the healthcare management degree program?
With our healthcare administration degree, you can expect to learn about managing care and health insurance, healthcare policies, health services management and human resource management.
Some examples of the healthcare management classes that you may take include:
- Principles of Management: Learn about management theories and management principles.
- Health Services Information Systems: Explore how technology is used in health service information systems. Learn about applications for hardware and software and how they relate to confidentiality, patient records and insurance and billing data.
- Principles of Ethics: Learn about personal and professional dilemmas and analyze those dilemmas using moral and ethical principles.
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1Local growth will vary by location. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/medical-and-health-services-managers.htm
2Students enrolled at a Pennsylvania location must take HUMN451 as part of this requirement.
3This course requires successful completion of required math and English transitional studies courses. Required transitional studies coursework may affect program length and cost.
4This course is licensed in New Jersey; students whose enrolled location is in New Jersey may enroll in these courses in the onsite, online and blended modalities. This course is also available as an honors course (restrictions apply).
5Tennessee residents must provide one of the following: a copy of an official high school transcript; a GED® certificate or the equivalent; or an official transcript of a post-secondary degree. The post-secondary transcript must include the name of the high school and the high school graduation date.
All students enrolled in site-based programs will be required to take some coursework online and, for some programs and locations, a substantial portion of the program may be required to be completed online.
