Master of Healthcare Administration
Welcome
Congratulations on your decision to embark on an exciting and impactful career in Public Health. The College of Health Sciences offers a Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) Program that will distinctively prepare you to become a public health leader and practitioner. The program is designed to help you serve your community and those around the world. Our curricula integrates your unique talents and skills to apply fundamental public health skills while learning about structural and social determinants of health and applies public health practices that focus on health justice and equity.
The WesternU MHA offers the option of two concentrations:
Community and Social Behavior Sciences: Become a community health practitioner with hands-on expertise in health promotion and disease prevention programs for medically underserved and underrepresented communities.
Health Policy and Leadership: Become an innovative leader in the healthcare industry, creating and implementing policies, programs, and transforming healthcare systems with equitable benefits for all.
Why Choose WesternU
WesternU is committed to cultivating, nurturing, and growing a student body and healthcare workforce that reflects the diversity of the United States, and beyond. The WesternU MHA program supports the university’s commitment.
The WesternU MHA program is situated within a university with eight distinct colleges, including a medical school. Students experience how medicine and public health are integrated and offers both the myopic view of medicine with diagnosis and treatment, while understanding the hyperopic view of population-level factors contributing to health and well-being.
- The MHA program is fully online
- Learn at your own pace
- Choose from two areas of concentration:
- MHA in Community and Social Behavior Sciences
- MHA in Health Policy and Leadership
- There are options available to complete the program in as little as 12-months
- Opportunities for inter-professional interactions with faculty and students in other programs at WesternU
Accreditation
The MHA program at WesternU is WASC approved