Health Care Administration, MS - Online
Why study Health Care Administration online through OSU?
Format
This degree program is 100 percent online. Courses are delivered through Canvas, OSU’s online learning platform. Program courses are offered using 8- and 16-week formats. Courses are taught asynchronously so students can fit them into their schedules. The Health Care Administration program also offers the following graduate certificates that can be earned independently:
- Health Care Administration
- Health Care Admininstration: Compliance
- Health Care Administration: Finance
- Health Care Administration: Global Health
- Health Care Admininstration: Tribal Health
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Curriculum
The curriculum is broadly designed to prepare students for management or leadership positions in any healthcare organization. Students who discover internship opportunities may receive credit for such opportunities.
Required core curriculum for this 32-hour program includes:
- General Survey of Healthcare Industry
- Legal Issues and Compliance
- Leadership Methods and Styles in Healthcare
- Survey of Research and Evaluation in Health Care
Admissions
Applications are accepted throughout the year. Applicants are encouraged to submit application materials at least six weeks prior to the start of the semester.
To apply to the Health Care Administration program, complete the following:
- Graduate College application
- Official transcripts from each college or university you have attended or are currently attending.
- Provide a one- to two-paged typed, double-spaced goal statement that includes the following:
- Description of your current job
- Description of current and past health care experience, if any.
- What are your career goals?
- How will the HCA program help you in achieving these goals?
- Why are you applying to OSU’s HCA program?
- What personal strengths will help you attain your goals?
- What personal challenges do you face in achieving your goals?
Cost
Students enrolled in the Health Care Administration master's program will complete 32 credit hours during the course of their studies. Current cost estimates are calculated below. Additional cost details and OSU’s tuition and fee estimator are available on the HCA Tuition and Financial Aid.
| Resident | Non-Resident | |
|---|---|---|
| Total cost per credit hour | $372.62 | $488.48 |
| Total cost per 3-credit hour course | $1,117.86 | $1,465.44 |
| Total program cost based on 32 hours | $11,923.84 | $15,631.36 |
| Total program cost based on 32 hours | $11,360.00 | $15,520.00 |