Maryville’s Online Master of Health Administration (MHA)

Lead health organizations. Earn your MHA degree online.

With Maryville University’s online Master of Health Administration (MHA), you’ll develop the expertise you need to become a capable, confident healthcare leader. Pursue a generalist track, or specialize in health informatics/analytics, healthcare leadership, population health management or senior services.

Coursework for the online MHA degree reflects the changing landscape of healthcare and enables you to immediately apply what you’re learning to real-world healthcare challenges. You’ll learn 100% online, and expand your network as you build relationships with other healthcare professionals and executives.

Choose from four industry-relevant concentrations.
Graduate in as few as two years.
Learn from a faculty of active industry practitioners.
No GMAT/GRE scores are required to apply.

Curriculum for the online MHA program

In the MHA online, you will take courses designed around the core competencies for health administration, addressed by organizations such as the National Center on Healthcare Leadership (NCHL) and the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).

The online MHA curriculum will equip you with the skills to succeed in healthcare management, such as:

  • General business skills like marketing, corporate finance and accounting, cybersecurity, business analytics, computer programming and information systems
  • Business ethics, human resources and advanced management
  • Critical thinking, process improvement and other real-world skills

The online master’s program comprises 10 core courses (27 credits) and your choice of three electives (9 credits). You have a number of options for customizing your 36-credit MHA online. You can select a concentration, or pursue a generalist track to choose your own mix of electives based on your professional interests and career goals.

Core MHA courses

Core courses include the following:

  • Graduate Preparation Course
  • Healthcare Industry and Its Impact on Healthcare Management
  • Healthcare Operations
  • Healthcare Human Resources & Organizational Behavior
  • Healthcare Quality and Performance Improvement
  • Healthcare Law, Ethics and Risk Management
  • Healthcare Financial Management
  • Population Health Management
  • Healthcare Technology & Information Systems
  • Strategic Healthcare Management Capstone

Health Informatics and Analytics concentration

In this MHA concentration, you’ll learn to leverage data to optimize healthcare strategies. Courses include:

  • Healthcare Analytics
  • Healthcare Informatics
  • Healthcare Analytics II & Project Management

Healthcare Leadership concentration

In this MHA concentration, you’ll explore the business and policy side of healthcare systems. Courses include:

  • Healthcare Marketing
  • Health Policy and Economics
  • Leadership and Professionalism in Healthcare

Population Health Management concentration

In this MHA concentration, you’ll learn to improve community health and curb epidemics. Courses include:

  • Healthcare Analytics
  • Managerial Epidemiology
  • Community Health

Senior Services concentration

In this MHA concentration, you’ll learn to manage the operations of senior healthcare and living services. Courses include:

  • Introduction To Gerontology
  • Assisted Living / Senior Services Management
  • Leadership and Professionalism In Healthcare

Early access to the online MHA program

Current Maryville undergraduate students, take note: through Maryville’s Early Access program, you can get a head start earning your master’s in health administration online. You are eligible if you have a GPA of 3.25 or higher and you’ve completed 90 credit hours or more of your bachelor’s degree (at least 20 credit hours at Maryville).

With Early Access, you can earn up to 12 credits toward your master’s degree during the last phase of your undergraduate degree. Early Access allows you to take graduate-level courses that count toward your undergraduate and graduate degrees. These courses are billed at the undergraduate tuition rate, so you can save time and money.

Flexible online learning

At Maryville, your needs come first. That’s why our online MHA program gives you the flexibility to learn in a way that works for you.

  • Choose a start date that fits with your schedule.
  • Study when it’s convenient for you — on your time, not ours. 
  • Learn 100% online. (But you’re always welcome on our St. Louis campus!)

Professional partnerships

Learn from and network with active professionals and industry experts through our partnerships with organizations around the world.

Partners of the university include:

  • Express-Scripts
  • SSM Health
  • Mercy Health Systems

Featured faculty

Melynda Pryor is the director and assistant professor of healthcare management and health administration degree programs at Maryville.
Melynda brings over 20 years of experience in management and health administration to the classroom. Her work as a senior director with large healthcare organizations provides students exposure to a wide variety of strategic and operational real-life scenarios to think creatively and critically to generate solutions.

Admission requirements for the online MHA degree

Maryville’s hassle-free application process is designed to remove roadblocks, so you can focus on what’s important: your growth and your goals. No application fees. No GMAT/GRE scores. Maryville will even request your transcripts for you.

We offer three start dates per year, so you can apply and start learning sooner than you think. Here’s what you’ll need to submit:

Simplified, no-cost online application

Official academic transcripts from all previous colleges or universities

English proficiency scores (International applicants may be required to submit scores that meet a certain threshold.)

To be eligible for admission into Maryville’s online MHA, you will need a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college/university, a minimum 3.0 GPA and an understanding of basic statistics.

Career paths with a master’s in health administration

Maryville’s MHA online degree will equip you to manage and grow a modern healthcare practice or facility, or even start your own. You will develop the specialized skills to manage the daily operations of a medical facility — such as hospitals, clinics and nursing and residential care facilities — and to ensure efficiency and improve patient outcomes.

With a Master of Health Administration, you can pursue leadership positions such as hospital or clinic director, medical and health services manager, nurse manager, healthcare recruiter and senior living community manager.

With an EdD, you may qualify for educational leadership roles such as academic dean, admissions director, chief academic officer, college/university administrator, college/university president, dean of students, department chair, provost, education consultant and registrar.

Get ready to become a well-rounded, decisive organizational leader in healthcare. Take the next step — learn more about Maryville’s online MHA program.

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