Courses in the HCA program cover several broad content areas including:

The Health Care Administration curriculum provides professional education in both basic and applied health administration. This educational focus involves providing knowledge and skills required for health services managers to successfully function in a complex and rapidly changing environment. The broad content areas include:

Health Systems Organization

History and organization of the health care system,  financing, and utilization of health services, health status and disease occurrence, legal aspects of health care and government policy formulation and implementation and its impact on health care organizations.

Management & Leadership

Organization theory and behavior, health care planning and marketing, human resource management and leadership, managerial communications, ethics and strategic management.

Financial Management & Economics

Accounting and financial management tools for health care administrators, budgeting, financial analysis, costing, variance analysis, capital structure, fundamentals of economic theory, markets for medical care, health insurance and economic analysis in decision making.

Decision Tools & Information Management

Application of quantitative and qualitative methods to solving health care management problems, operations research, research design and analysis, epidemiology, information systems, and performance and quality assessment.

Electives