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Health Administration M.H.A.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Organizational Management and Improvement: Assess opportunities to improve health services organization performance through application of organizational theory, development principles, and analytic methods.

2. Workforce and Organizational Development: Apply methods for organizational, employee, and professional staff development that ensure a diverse and high performing workforce.

3. Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement: Analyze and use data within organizations to improve performance.

4. Information Technology, Management and Assessment: Analyze the value, risks and opportunities of information technology and associated data for improving performance of health services organizations.

5. Strategic and Business Planning: Perform environmental, market and community needs analyses. Using appropriate tools and techniques, develop strategic alternatives consistent with organizational goals. Prepare integrated plan involving multiple stakeholders and team members to evaluate and implement proposed programs, projects or business initiatives with the goal of improving health services delivery.

6. Financial Management: Explain financial and accounting information, prepare and manage budgets, and evaluate investment decisions.

7. Health Care Issues and Trends: Explain important issues in health care, including circumstances causing major changes and reform in U.S. health care delivery.

8. Health Policy & Economics: Understand economic theory and health policy processes, including the creation and implementation of policy and its impact on the delivery of health services.

9. Health Law & Governance: Analyze governance and legal issues that arise in health organizations and respond appropriately.

10. Population Health: Use epidemiological, market, patient outcome, and organizational performance data to improve quality, and manage financial and other risks associated with defined populations.

11. Leadership & Change Management: Develop effective leadership approaches to communicate a vision, motivate stakeholders, build consensus, and lead organizational change efforts.

12. Impact & Influence: Shape opinions, processes, or outcomes through example, persuasive communication, or use of informal power.

13. Professional Development: Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning and self-improvement through reflection, goal setting, self-assessment, and the cultivation of professional networks.

14. Collaboration & Working in Teams: Work cooperatively with others, create, participate on, and lead teams, including inter-professional.

15. Personal & Professional Ethics: Apply ethical principles, social and professional values to analyze managerial, organizational and policy situations; demonstrate professional values and ethics.

16. Critical Thinking: Evaluate a situation, issue, or idea by understanding and challenging assumptions, considering competing points of view, and anticipating potential effects within and beyond the health care system.

17. Communication Skills (Written & Verbal): Write and speak in a clear, logical manner and prepare effective business communications.

18. Quantitative Skills: Analyze data and interpret quantitative information to inform organizational decision making and performance improvement.

19. Performance Measurement: Identify and use data within organizations to improve performance.

20. Problem-solving & Decision-making: Use multiple sources of information, generate creative solutions, and apply structured decision-making methods to solve problems.

SUCCESS RATES

45.8%

3-year graduation rate

1.95

Avg. years to degree

MEDIAN EARNINGS

$120,704

10 years after graduation

$111,101

5 years after graduation

$99,141

1 year after graduation

PLACEMENT2 years after graduation

13.6%

Working in New York

14.0%

Continuing Education

Notes

Graduation rates: the percent of students entering the master’s program any time during the academic year and graduating by May 31 three years later. Methodology is parallel to AAU Data Exchange doctoral completion rates and means that spring entrants have less time to complete. Average of three most recent reporting years (2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24) Years to degree: the average number of years it takes a student to complete the selected program. Average of the three most recent completion years (2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23). No Asterisk-Earnings: the median annual earnings of graduates in the selected program at the master’s degree level based on the 2-digit CIP code at 1, 5 and 10 years after graduation. U.S. Census, Postsecondary Enrollment Outcomes Explorer. Degree completers from 2001-2018 in 2020 dollars. Asterisk- Earnings: the median annual earnings of graduates in the selected program at the master’s degree level at 1, 5 and 10 years after graduation. SUNY Graduates Post Completions Interactive Dashboard. Degree completers from 2005-2019 in 2020 dollars. Working in NY State: the percent of graduates working in New York State two years after graduation. SUNY Wages Dashboard, includes graduates from 2015-18. Most recent available data from SUNY as of January 31, 2024