Overview
Sharpen your leadership skills and transform the health care industry with Trinity’s world-class Executive Master of Health Care Administration
Trinity’s Executive Track for the Master’s of Science in Health Care Administration develops leaders who are prepared for the challenges of healthcare delivery, today and tomorrow. The part-time, distance-learning format provides individuals currently working in a healthcare setting with an opportunity to invest in their future while continuing to work full-time.
Advance Your Career
Leading health care organizations is increasingly complex, with changing patient demographics, innovative new care models, policy uncertainty, and new technologies. With the health care industry projected to grow 16% between 2020 and 2030, new leaders are needed in every facet of the industry.
Trinity University has been educating health care leaders for more than 50 years in its nationally ranked Master of Health Care Administration program. The program has been awarded top honors as a gold recipient from the prestigious CAHME George and Regi Herzlinger Innovation Education Award for excellence in healthcare education.
To meet the needs of rising health care leaders like you, Trinity University offers the Executive Master of Health Care Administration. This premier program is offered in a hybrid format, so you can continue to work while you advance your career.
The Executive Master of Health Care Administration can be completed in 23 months and is designed to integrate your learning directly into your work experiences providing an immediate return on investment in continuing your education.
Program Benefits
Expert Faculty
Our faculty focus on teaching and the student experience. The Health Care Administration faculty consists of tenured and tenure-track professors as well as industry professionals, all of whom only teach graduate-level courses. This creates an ideal blend of academic research and real-world experience.
Focus on Leadership Development
The program curriculum is structured to push you to become the health care leader you aspire to be. Trinity's faculty members are committed to working alongside you to help you progress through the program and your career.
Nationally Recognized Program
Trinity’s graduate program in Health Care Administration is ranked #13 by U.S. News & World Report. It has also been continuously accredited by the CAHME since 1968.
Strong Health Care Alumni Network
Trinity University has graduated over 1,750 students from its Health Care Administration graduate programs, making it one of the largest health care administration alumni networks nationwide. Trinity Health Care alumni are highly involved with the program, providing mentoring, leadership and career advancement opportunities.
Practical, Real-World Experience
All your classmates in this program have previous health care industry experience. Fellow students' diverse work experiences create a dynamic, collaborative learning environment where new concepts can be tested with other healthcare professionals.
Program Flexibility
The hybrid format allows busy professionals like you the opportunity to manage their work schedules and coursework while still working full-time. Each semester starts with a 3-day session at Trinity followed by distance learning to complete each course.
Affordability
Billed in six equal installments at the start of each semester
Deposit
Once accepted, students are required to submit a $200 non-refundable deposit. This deposit will be applied to your tuition, providing you enroll in the program and start with your designated cohort class.
Books
Books and materials are an additional cost.
Transportation
Students are responsible for their transportation to each on-campus session.
Financial Aid
Trinity University's Financial Aid office assists students by providing information about financial aid opportunities available at Trinity University. Please contact Lonnie Rodriguez (lrodrig5@trinity.edu) for more information.
What You'll Study
Creating effective decision-makers and innovative thinkers in healthcare
Because students must have prior management-level experience, the program fosters learning opportunities that integrate the theory and principles of health care administration with the richness of each participant’s practice setting.
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23-months to complete
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The Executive Program usually takes 23 months to complete and consists of 15 courses totaling 41 credit hours. The curriculum emphasizes the integration of conceptual and experiential learning. The hybrid format allows busy professionals like you the opportunity to manage their work schedules and coursework while still working full-time. Each semester starts with a 3-day session at Trinity followed by distance learning to complete each course.
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Distance Learning
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Courses begin each fall, spring and summer semester with three days of intensive on-campus study. Once students leave the Trinity University campus, they are required to participate in regular class teleconferencing sessions (typically, one teleconference every three weeks).
Learning and interaction are facilitated by using the Internet, e-mail, and teleconferencing. Each course will include approximately five teleconferencing sessions of two hours each.
A typical course sequence is as follows:
First Year, Fall Semester
- Statistical Analysis in Health Care Organizations
- Health Services Organization & Policy
- Project Management
First Year, Spring Semester
- Health Care Management
- Health Care Organization Theory and Management
- Finance I
First Year, Summer Semester
- Managerial Epidemiology
- Finance II
Second Year, Fall Semester
- Professional Development & Leadership
- Seminar in Strategic Planning & Marketing
Second Year, Spring Semester
- Economic Aspects of Health Care Administration
- Leadership II
- Performance Improvement in Health Care Organizations
Second Year, Summer Semester
- Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration
- Health Care Human Resources Management
Leadership Effectiveness
Analyze managerial leadership models and the exercise of power in the healthcare setting. Students gain skills for dealing with conflict in organizations and affecting organizational change.
Strategic Management of Health Services
This integrative seminar focuses on the management of healthcare organizations from a strategic perspective, with a special emphasis on organization responses to new trends and changing circumstances.
Healthcare Organization Theory and Management
Students gain a foundational framework from which they analyze and consider concepts including organizational culture, team building, power, conflict management, and other organizational dynamics, principles, and findings.
Statistical Analysis in Healthcare Organizations
Learn the basics of statistical analysis. Become a strong decision-maker through the collection, aggregation, and presentation of data, and basic descriptive and inferential statistics.
Performance Improvement
Grasp the fundamentals of guiding and sustaining healthcare organizational performance improvement, including the topics of leadership, culture, employee onboarding and engagement, customer relationship management, and contemporary performance improvement.
View all courses
For more information and a description of each class please visit the COSB website.
Faculty
Connected to the field, committed to students
Faculty develop close ties with students and work diligently to support their success well into their careers. Through a culture that prioritizes students and relationships that last a lifetime, faculty are committed to fostering future leaders who think critically and who will transform healthcare.
When You Graduate
Chart a path to leadership success in health care
Careers
The executive track’s flexible approach opens new doors to leadership positions in the health care industry. Armed with conceptual knowledge, leadership skills, and real-world experience, alumni have attained key leadership positions in health care organizations throughout the U.S.
Career Areas:
- Hospital Executive Leadership
- Health System Executive Leadership
- Executive Clinical Leadership
- Health Care Strategy and Business Development
- Physician Practice Management
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