Program Overview

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Introduction to the MBA Healthcare Management Program

The MBA Healthcare Management program is designed for aspiring healthcare leaders, focusing on the unique challenges faced by healthcare professionals working within a complex, professional, and diverse environment. This online postgraduate program combines fundamental business and leadership knowledge with policy and managerial strategies needed to improve healthcare organizations and outcomes.

Program Overview

• The program is delivered entirely online and part-time, allowing working healthcare professionals to balance their studies with important life responsibilities.
• The program length is 2 years part-time, with a total program fee of £13,680.
• The program starts on January 12, 2026, and applications can be submitted until December 8, 2025.

What You Will Learn

The MBA Healthcare Management program covers a range of topics, including:

• Management strategy
• Financial resources and risks within an organization
• Marketing in a global society
• Leading and managing change
• Improving quality in healthcare
• Healthcare management and organization
• Healthcare policy challenges
• Economics in healthcare management
• Business consultancy

Career Opportunities

This online MBA Healthcare Management program is designed to equip students with the diverse skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to enhance their career prospects and capability to lead and manage in healthcare contexts. Potential career opportunities include:

• Healthcare manager or healthcare consultant
• Hospital administrator
• Pharmaceutical project manager
• Healthcare marketing manager
• Clinical manager
• Medical director or administrative director
• Health information manager

Why Choose the University of York?

The University of York is a world-class Russell Group member, ranked 17th in the UK (Complete University Guide 2025). The university offers 100% online Masters programs in management, business administration, public administration, and computer science, allowing students to study from anywhere and start within weeks. The program is designed to be flexible, with a pay-per-module structure.

Entry Requirements

To be eligible for the MBA Healthcare Management program, applicants must meet the following requirements:

• A 2:2 undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification and managerial work experience within health and social care or a related setting over a minimum of three years.
• Applicants with no or lower-grade undergraduate degree can be considered if they have substantive professional experience.
• English language requirements:
  • International English Language Testing System (IELTS): 6.5, with a minimum of 6.5 in Writing and no less than 6.0 in all other components
  • TOEFL IBT (internet-based and special home edition): 87, with 21 in each component
  • Trinity ISE: Level 3, with Merit in each component
  • PTE Academic: 61, with 55 in each component
  • Cambridge B2 First: 176, with 169 in each component
  • LanguageCert SELT B2: 33/50 in each component
  • LanguageCert Academic: 70, with a minimum of 65 in each component
  • Duolingo: 120, with 105 in each component
  • KTE: 478-509, with 444-477 in all other components
  • Skills for English B2: Merit overall, with Pass with Merit in each component
  • Oxford ELLT: 7, with 6 in each component
  • Oxford Test of English Advanced: 136, with 126 in each component
  • GCSE: B/6 or above

Modules

The MBA Healthcare Management program consists of the following modules:

• Contemporary Challenges in Healthcare Policy
• Health Economics for Healthcare Managers
• Improving Quality in Healthcare
• Leading and Managing Organisational Change
• Managing and Organising in Healthcare
• Managing Financial Resources & Risk
• Marketing and Society
• Strategy in Practice
• Foundations of Business Consultancy
• Consultancy Proposal and Pitch
• MBA Consultancy Portfolio

Module Descriptions

Contemporary Challenges in Healthcare Policy

This module provides a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary, global healthcare policy challenges, including analyzing policy development processes, evaluating stakeholder engagement, exploring public health principles, examining digital health and analytics, addressing workforce development issues, enhancing critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and developing effective communication and collaboration abilities in the context of healthcare policy.

Health Economics for Healthcare Managers

This module introduces students to health economics and its relevance to key agents, institutions, and structures within healthcare. It provides a toolkit for evaluating interventions in terms of their ability to deliver value for money and a framework for understanding, measuring, and addressing health inequalities.

Improving Quality in Healthcare

This module aims to develop a critical and practical understanding of leading continuous improvement within health and care systems in topics including: variation and its impact on care delivery, applying lean operations to health and care service delivery, how to foster and maintain an improvement culture, and more.

Leading and Managing Organisational Change

This module examines change practices within organizations. It aims to provide a critical introduction to theories of change and explores, through a variety of cases both real and simulated, how they can shape effective practice.

Managing and Organising in Healthcare

This module aims to develop a critical and practical understanding of the challenges of organizing, managing, and leading change in healthcare as a distinctive sector or area of activity. You will learn about the wider policy context within which healthcare organizations operate, organizational culture in shaping practice and delivery, and more.

Managing Financial Resources & Risk

This module specially aims to give you an understanding of financial management, and the financial resources and risks within an organization. It enables the interpretation of financial statements from business, facilitates investment and funding decisions perspectives, and explores a range of possible financial risks.

Marketing and Society

This module examines marketing for businesses in a global society and explores the marketing challenges that all organizations face. It aims to study marketing management for businesses in global settings and to develop the capacity to learn and engage with the opportunities and challenges of communicating brand images and corporate values across national, linguistic, and cultural borders to a variety of consumers. It also considers a variety of methods, including new social media, as a mechanism of distributing knowledge and information.

Strategy in Practice

This module explores management strategy and focuses on being a leader for the future. It provides an overview of strategic management theories and pays particular attention to ethical leadership and global citizenship and their impact on organizations.

Foundations of Business Consultancy

This module focuses on the research skills needed to perform consultancy within an organization. It provides an introduction to a range of research skills which will enable consultancy work to be conducted within an organization.

Consultancy Proposal and Pitch

This module encourages your creativity to produce a valid and robust proposal for a consultancy project and to pitch your idea in a Dragon’s Den style environment. It provides the opportunity to create a valid and robust proposal for carrying out a consultancy piece of work within an organization, including rigorous consideration of the ethics process.

MBA Consultancy Portfolio

This module is the culmination of the MBA journey. It encapsulates all the knowledge and experience that you have learned throughout your course and is presented in the framework of a portfolio exploring a management problem or issue. It allows you to apply your knowledge and skills learned throughout the course to a specific issue(s) identified within an organization, to establish a method of researching it, and to be able to present a rigorous and sound solution.