Program Overview

Master of Health Administration (MHA) Program

The Rutgers Master of Health Administration (MHA) offers a flexible approach that focuses on developing a range of core competencies. Students learn from expert faculty, including leaders who are helping to solve real-world problems in healthcare organizations. The program provides an interdisciplinary education focused on improving healthcare, health systems, and policy.

Program Overview

• The MHA program is specifically tailored to the healthcare sector, with a rigorous training in economics, law, ethics, leadership, and other disciplines.
• Participants complete the 45-credit program at their own pace, full- or part-time.
• The program relies on active learning and higher-level teaching activities, with students applying, analyzing, integrating, and synthesizing what they learn in the classroom to real cases, challenging managerial problems, and simulated workplace settings.

Curriculum

• The 45-credit MHA track curriculum includes 11 core courses and requires completion of an experiential, professional practicum with seminar (6 credits).
• Students also complete 6 credits of approved electives.
• Recommended course sequencing is provided, with early, mid-level, and upper-level courses.

Teaching and Learning Methods

• The program uses a variety of teaching and learning methods, including traditional teaching methods, group activities, case studies, practical field experiences, interactive discussions, and guest/practitioner seminars.
• Practitioner instructors emphasize student-centered learning using real-world scenarios in their classrooms, seeking to engage students in critical thinking, innovative problem-solving, and evidence-based decision making.

Assessment Methods

• The program employs increasingly complex and higher-level assessment methods, including quizzes, exams, critical analysis and problem-based papers/presentations, threaded discussion boards, team research projects, and real-world practicum presentations.
• Assessments are performed by a variety of course leaders, including faculty, field experience preceptors, and peer reviewers.

Application Requirements

• Applications are collected by the Rutgers University Office of Graduate and Professional Admissions and then dispersed to individual schools for review and decision.
• The requirements for the application include:
  • Completion of an undergraduate degree with a minimum GPA of 3.25.
  • Evidence of growth and maturation during undergraduate studies.
  • Employment in the healthcare management area or related professional area (highly recommended).
  • Application form and fee.
  • Personal statement.
  • Resume.
  • Official transcripts.
  • At least two letters of recommendation.
• No GREs are required, but international students must submit TOEFL/IELTS/DuoLingo scores.

Admission Criteria

• Admission criteria include completion of an undergraduate degree with a minimum GPA of 3.25, evidence of growth and maturation during undergraduate studies, and employment in the healthcare management area or related professional area.
• Each MHA application is reviewed by at least three, and no more than five, full-time MHA faculty members.

Student Support

• The MHA program has a structured advising system to ensure appropriate and timely academic and career advising as students progress through to graduation.
• All first-year students are assigned an academic advisor at the time of their orientation and first enrollment.
• The program director provides additional support to advisers and students by assessing ongoing needs and developing both ad hoc and longer-term arrangements for additional training and support.
• A full-time professional career and job counselor is available to all MHA students for career and job-related advising.

Mission, Vision, and Values

• The mission of the Rutgers MHA program is to educate a diverse group of early and mid-level careerists for both entry-level positions and those of increasing responsibility and leadership in healthcare.
• The vision is to be a nationally recognized graduate healthcare management program that prepares the next generation of transformational leaders.
• The values include excellence, integrity, diversity and inclusion, innovation and forward thinking, continuing professional development, and service.

Faculty

• The regular faculty represent over 300 years of combined senior leadership, practice, and consulting experience in healthcare.
• Additional part-time lecturers are recruited from across the country and bring a depth of 'real-world' experience.
• Almost all part-time lecturers are currently employed in, or just recently retired from, leadership roles in a healthcare field.

Program Statistics

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