Program Description:

Husson University’s Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Administration is a 100% online program designed for aspiring leaders and current healthcare professionals ready to advance their careers. Whether you are looking to move into management or transition from a clinical role to an administrative one, Husson provides the technical foundation and soft skills required to ensure health organizations serve their communities efficiently and effectively.

This highly marketable degree equips you with the business acumen and operational expertise needed to succeed as a leader in the healthcare industry, one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing career sectors. As the demand for high-quality healthcare increases, so will the need for skilled administrators and managers with knowledge in policy, finance, and healthcare operations.

Program Outcomes: 

  • Explain basic principles and tools of budget and resource management.

  • Select methods to evaluate public health programs.

  • Discuss multiple dimensions of the policy-making process, including the roles of ethics and evidence.

  • Propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes.

  • Advocate for political, social or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations.

  • Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity

  • Apply principles of leadership, governance and management, which include creating a vision, empowering others, fostering collaboration.

  • Perform effectively on interprofessional teams.

  • Compare the organization, structure and function of health care, public health and regulatory systems across national and international settings.

  • Advocate for means by which structural bias, social inequities and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity.

  • Assess population needs, assets and capacities that affect communities’ health.

  • Evaluate awareness of cultural values and practices to the design or implementation of public health policies or programs.

  • Design a population-based policy, program, project or intervention.

General Education Requirements
CM 221Professional Communications3
EH 105College Writing3
HE 111The Husson Experience1-3
or HE 114 Husson Experience & Building Professional Skills
MS 132Probability and Statistics3
PY 111General Psychology3
PY 141Human Growth and Development3
Fine Arts Elective3
Foreign Culture and Conversation Elective3
Lab Science Elective3-4
Literature Elective3
Math I Elective3-4
Natural Science, Social Science or History Elective3
Perspectives Elective3
Philosophical Elective3
Major Requirements
BA 101Introduction to Business3
BY 322Epidemiology3
EH 360Writing in the Health Professions3
HS 101Foundations of Healthcare Professions3
HS 121Medical Terminology3
HS 301Introduction to Public Health3
HS 302Global Health 3
HS 311Healthcare Management and Organization3
HS 321Healthcare Law and Ethics3
HS 411Health Economics and Policy3
HS 421Health Care Studies Senior Experience3
HS 491Health Care Studies Internship3-6
SC 224Research Design3
HS Electives9
Open Electives *30
Total Hours118-125

*Depending on credit allocation, students may need to take an additional open elective to meet the minimum 120 credit requirement