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Get a Modern MHA, Built for Today's Health Care

Webster's Master of Health Administration (MHA) program has been around since 1975, consistently evolving to keep up with what students need. Our new Emphasis in Analytics pairs the successful MHA program and learning the business of health care, with added abilities to ensure optimal patient care utilizing tools to use data to drive decision-making that improves health care outcomes.

Complete an Accredited Business Education

At the core of your MHA courses is Webster’s business education, accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs and named among global programs for teaching excellence and a commitment to improvement.

Convenience and Collaboration

At 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ, we know that working medical and health care professionals like you need to balance work and life while expanding your career horizons. You can set your own pace with the choice of a part-time schedule, taking one or two courses per term and completing your degree in 33 months, or a full-time schedule to finish quicker and graduate with an MHA degree in 16 months. 

Even with all this flexibility, you’ll work closely with around 20 working health care professionals in your class. Together, you’ll explore a wide range of business topics — from finance and marketing to health informatics, which is all about using data to improve health care delivery, efficiency and patient care. You will develop the skills and competencies specific to health care operations and learn to lead organizations to be more efficient and effective in patient-centered care with our Master of Health Administration with an Emphasis in Analytics degree designed for you.

 

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Choose Webster for Your MHA with an Emphasis in Analytics Degree

Learn From Health Care Leaders

Webster faculty for our master’s in Health Administration degree are current and former health care leaders. They’ll share real-world examples — lessons you can apply in your work now and later — and offer guidance in your career development.

Get Hands-On Experience

In this MHA with an Emphasis in Analytics program, you'll learn about Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and how to use them to practice real business tasks. You'll also explore statistical analysis in health administration and its role in management decision making and health services research. You will be prepared to use data to drive decision-making in real-world health care situations to improve operations, patient care and outcomes.

Learn Cutting-Edge Technologies

In your analytics courses, you’ll improve your data analysis proficency using the latest industry-standard software, including MS Excel, Tableau, SAP Business Explorer, SAP Business Object Analysis and Lumira. You will focus on creating effective reports and dashboards that clearly show your findings, using principles from design and cognitive science. You will learn how to present your data insights effectively to improve business decisions and drive real improvements for health care outcomes.

Graduate With Confidence From a Proven MHA Program

Webster's MHA graduation rate is 82%. That means that 82% of students who enter the MHA program graduate within four years. Upon completion of our MHA program, Webster students have scored 8% higher than the national average on a standardized exam taken by students at other Higher Learning Commission accredited universities across the United States. Join the ranks of our alumni who are ready for health care administration jobs on day one.

The MHA Program

"Health care is practiced in multidisciplinary teams, and we try to replicate that through structured activities, case studies and practical application." — Dan Mueller, Visiting Assistant Professor

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Text on screen: 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ Program Spotlight: Master of Health Administration (MHA)

Text on screen: Daniel Mueller, Visiting Assistant Professor

[An interview shot of Daniel Mueller fades into a montage of photos with students.]

Daniel Mueller: We exist to educate working professionals to be future health care leaders, to serve in managerial leadership roles in our health care system.

Text on screen: Douglas Whitman, Assistant Professor

Douglas Whitman: A business school class is going to teach great detail about running the financial side of a business…

[Another, longer montage of photos of students in health care and administration. Footage switches between shots of Whitman and other photo montages.]

But we need to be able to understand how those apply in health care. For example, Medicare, Medicaid. Those represent a substantial portion of the income to any health care organization, a doctor's office or a hospital, and those are not taught in a standard business school finance class. They are taught in a health care finance class, in our MHA program.

Text on screen: A diverse network of PRACTITIONER FACULTY

Mueller: Our faculty are really well prepared. They bring out real world examples in the classroom, especially in our structured activities and case studies.

Whitman: The examples, the case studies that are used would be from the health care industry.

Mueller: That's correct. All the subject matter that we teach in our course — health, policy, law — is focused on issues specifically designed by health administrative individuals, taught by our practitioners.

Text on screen: An innovative program: LIVE VIRTUAL FORMAT

Whitman: The Webster MHA can be done in the live virtual format in as little as 16 months.

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Text on screen: LIVE VIRTUAL FORMAT

If a student wants to take a full-time program, they will take two classes at a time and they can complete the entire program in 16 months. If a student would like to take it on a part-time basis and take one class at a time, then it would take about 33 months for them to finish.

We want to be able to provide the tools that people will need as they become directors, department leaders and C-suite level executives in an organization.

Text on screen: A diverse and global ALUMNI NETWORK

51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ is over 100 years old. The MBA program is over 45 years old. There are people that graduated from this program 45 years ago, 40 years ago, 30 years ago, 20 years ago that have already advanced into their careers to the highest levels.

The alumni network is incredibly valuable. We are experienced. We have a long-practiced system of teaching health care leadership to students.

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Text on screen: Proudly accredited by ACBSP, Global Business Accreditation

Text on screen: LEARN MORE AT WEBSTER.EDU

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The Webster MHA faculty use a variety of teaching and learning methods to help students become competent health care leaders. These include use of case studies, class discussions, team assignments, presentations, writing research and other papers, reading assignments in textbooks and other academic reading materials.

The Webster MHA program uses several learning and assessment methods. Student learning can be assessed through both direct and indirect measures. These direct measures may include homework assignments, quizzes, exams, student presentations, assigned essays, research projects, case study analysis, and from rubrics for oral and other performances. Examples of indirect measures include course evaluations, student surveys, course enrollment information, retention in the MHA Program, yearly alumni surveys and graduate school placement rates.

Have Confidence Receiving an Accredited Education

Our Walker School of Business & Technology is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP), an organization dedicated to improving the quality of business schools and programs around the world, and ultimately, to improving the practice of business in every industry.
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The Master of Health Administration program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education ().
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Master of Health Administration with an Emphasis in Analytics

Find out more about the overall curriculum, electives and learning outcomes for an MHA degree with an Emphasis in Analytics at Webster.

What Can You Do with a MHA with an Emphasis in Analytics?

As a graduate of Webster’s Master of Health Administration with an Emphasis in Analytics program, you’ll have a broad understanding of the health care industry and specific health care administration and data analysis skills to help organizations succeed. Demonstrate your expanded knowledge when you add these key competencies to your resume:

  • Strategic relationship building
  • Financial and advanced quantitative analysis
  • Effective business communications and data storytelling
  • Health care market and consumer analytics
  • Leadership and organizational management
  • Human resource management
  • Health informatics and data science
  • Health-related legal and ethical principles
  • Health policy and impact analysis
  • Data-driven strategic planning and process improvement

 

Employment Rate — Qualify for These Jobs with MHA Credentials

With your MHA degree from Webster, you’ll be able to advance your standing in a variety of settings, such as regional and local patient care providers and health care-related organizations, like pharmaceutical companies and medical device companies. Our graduates experience a high employment rate. In the 2022-2023 academic year, 94% of Webster MHA graduates were employed within three months of graduation and hold positions that may include:

  • Health Informatics Manager
  • Clinical Intelligence Analyst
  • Health System Administrator
  • Performance Improvement Specialist
  • Health Care Data Scientist
  • Hospital Administrator
  • Health Data Consultant

 

MHA Salary Information

Webster graduates with a Master of Health Administration degree are in high demand. Positions for health care leaders are expected to rise by 29% — about three times faster than average — by the year 2033. data also reports the 2024 median pay topped $117,960. Adding the Emphasis in Analytics provides a competitive edge in an area of high demand with the potential for higher earnings. It’s the perfect time to fulfill your personal and professional goals with an MHA with an Emphasis in Analytics degree.

Get Started on Your Master’s in Health Administration Degree

MHA Admission Rate: In the 2022-2023 academic year, 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ admitted 83% of applicants to its MHA program.

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