Build the same foundation of business theory and practice as every Zicklin MBA Student | 24 Credits

Courses Include:

• Strategy and Competitive Advantage
• Marketing Management
• Corporate Finance
• Managerial Statistics
• Managing Business Operations
• Financial Accounting
• Leadership and Managerial Effectiveness
• Managing People and Organizations

Gain a healthcare industry perspective on business from expert faculty | 18 Credits

Courses Include:

• Healthcare Accounting and Finance
• Healthcare Informatics and Quality
• Legal Aspects of Healthcare Administration
• Global Perspectives in Healthcare Assessment
• Healthcare Economics
• Population Health Control

Enrich your education with unique coursework | 7.5 Credits

International Study Tour
You will travel with a faculty member to an international location for 8-10 days to meet with companies and organizations in each location. Recent study tours include South Africa, Vietnam, Singapore, and China. Program graduates consistently rate the trip as an illuminating experience that enhances their international business perspective and gives them a greater understanding of the impact of our rapidly globalizing world.

Emerging Issues in the Healthcare Industry
This course, brings high level executives to the classroom to discuss impending challenges in their healthcare institutions. Following their lecture, the speakers dine with a small group of program participants, providing a unique opportunity for you to network with major executives.

Healthcare Ventures
This capstone experience challenges you to conceptualize an original idea for a healthcare venture and develop a business plan that will require you to draw upon all the knowledge delivered to you by the program. At the culmination of the project you will pitch your idea to “angel investors” that are current executives in the healthcare industry.

The Program has established a series of benchmarks for our students upon completion. Our goal is that majority of our graduates will meet or exceed the expectations of the evaluators from outside the Program with respect to the following eight competencies.

Teamwork and Leadership

Students will develop skills that permit them to function effectively in teams and be given opportunities to experience, understand, and develop their competencies as leaders.

Communication

Students will be effective oral and written communicators as leadership and teamwork in business is dependent on developing shared meaning and commitment to action fostered through communication.

Information and Technology Literacy

Students will develop effective information literacy skills and understand how information technology is used to support organizational decision-making.

Ethical Awareness

Students will be sensitive to ethical issues in business, understand the importance of behavior and their responsibilities as business people to uphold ethical principles in their dealings.

Quantitative Analysis

Students will effectively use quantitative techniques to describe and analyze business phenomena and help develop solutions to business problems.

Financial Knowledge

Students will effectively use economic, accounting and financial concepts to assess markets, to manage revenues and costs, and to oversee budgets in healthcare organizations.

Knowledge of the Healthcare Environment

Students will know the health insurance system in the US, its major payers and its myriad incentives so as best adapt business skills to the efficient provision of healthcare services to diverse populations and their multiple needs.

Knowledge Integration

Students will have the opportunity to develop a specialized intellectual competence in at least one business discipline to support post degree employment aims.

We have discontinued our affiliation with CAHME Accreditation effective July 1, 2019.