Master's in Healthcare Administration | Online MHA

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Become a Leading Force in Medical Organizations with Our Master’s in Healthcare Administration Degree

The demand for healthcare practitioners is soaring, and with increased clinical demands comes increased opportunities. Conferring our online Master of Science (MS) in Healthcare Administration could help equip you with an understanding of informatics, public health, and nursing disciplines. An MS in Healthcare Administration can teach you to better manage your business needs or enter human resources and benefits management as a career. You can start moving forward to a rewarding career with Liberty’s online MS in Healthcare Administration program!

This program can also help you learn how to add value to your organization by making informed, strategic decisions. Liberty University’s Master of Science in Healthcare Administration (MHA) degree is an affordable, flexible, 100% online degree program that can teach you time-tested strategies. You will study management techniques, financial models, and principles to succeed in business. Through this degree, you can become prepared to enter the healthcare field with skills essential to success in healthcare administration.

Our online MHA professors will guide you during your journey to becoming an expert in the field of healthcare administration. As a leader in healthcare, it will be your duty to oversee the success of your organization. Strategic management skills, an understanding of health policy and ethics, and the ability to manage human capital can help get you there – and our MHA degree online is an excellent way to help you acquire this knowledge.

What is an MHA Degree?

Liberty’s Master of Science in Healthcare Administration compares to a Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) or an MSHA degree. These degree types focus on providing practical skills for managers who need healthcare expertise.

Some examples of professionals who use these skills are healthcare industry managers, health policy managers, and human resource managers. If you need a master’s in health administration for your career, Liberty’s online MSHA can give you the training you need.

What Will You Study in Liberty’s MSHA Degree Online Program?

Our online MHA degree program can help sharpen your foundational knowledge, skills, and abilities in healthcare leadership and management. Our master’s in healthcare administration online program allows you to develop tools that can be used to guide healthcare organizations to success. By efficiently managing operations and personnel, you can help ensure quality care for your customers. At Liberty, we seek to equip you with the ability to maintain compliance with laws that affect healthcare providers, administrators, and organizations.

Coursework in our master’s in healthcare administration online degree is designed to equip healthcare administrators for both public and private health organizations. Each course in this healthcare administration master’s program was created specifically to build practical skills to help you succeed. Our master’s in healthcare administration helps build your skills in value creation, strategic planning, high-performance business management techniques, and using financial models. These models and principles can help you make evidence-based decisions within the context of the healthcare industry.

Our online health administration master’s program will guide you through healthcare informatics, legal and ethical issues for health professionals, and career development in healthcare administration. You will also study organizational behavior in health systems, healthcare administration as a general topic, and financial analysis in healthcare.

In addition, this online MHA program covers strategic management and marketing for healthcare professionals, operations management for health organizations, and evidence-based decision-making in the healthcare field. Furthermore, you will study economics in healthcare, managerial epidemiology, quantitative methods in healthcare management, and how to manage human capital in healthcare organizations. Lastly, our MHA degree program is rounded out by a capstone course that will challenge you to recall and use everything you have learned throughout your degree.

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Why Choose Liberty’s Online Degree?

Choosing to pursue an online degree with Liberty University offers a unique blend of flexibility, quality education, and a values-based curriculum designed to help prepare you for a Healthcare Administration career. Our commitment is to help provide you with a comprehensive education that integrates faith, ethical considerations, and professional excellence. This holistic approach can help ensure that you are not just a skilled professional but also an ethical leader who is ready to make a positive impact in your community.

Opting for an online degree with Liberty University means embracing an educational experience that fits your lifestyle. Whether you’re balancing work, family commitments, or other responsibilities, Liberty’s online programs are designed with your needs in mind.

The university’s state-of-the-art online learning platform enables you to access course materials, engage with faculty and peers, and complete assignments from anywhere in the world, at any time. This level of flexibility ensures that education is accessible to all, removing the barriers of traditional on-campus programs.

Moreover, Liberty University’s strong emphasis on affordability allows you to pursue your dreams at a lower cost than other universities, making it an excellent choice for those who seek both quality education and financial stewardship.

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Potential Career Options in the Field of Healthcare Administration

Budget analyst
Community healthcare worker
Compliance manager
Financial planning analyst
Hospital compliance director

Healthcare administrator
Management consultant
Medical services manager
Nonprofit organization director
Nurse manager

MS in Healthcare Administration Degree Options

Customize your degree with one of our healthcare administration specializations or choose our general 42-credit-hour track and learn the same core material in less time. You can explore information about each specialization in the list below.

Generalized Track: 42-credit-hour (No Specialization)

Accounting

Liberty University’s online master’s in healthcare administration – accounting offers you a diverse path of study that includes best practices for healthcare administration and accountancy. With a focus on accounting, this program can help equip you to meet the administrative and financial analysis needs in the healthcare field. These skills can help you to identify and address a variety of healthcare administrative concerns.

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Finance

Liberty University’s online master’s in healthcare administration – finance allows you to combine study of 2 areas that are mutually dependent in healthcare organizations: administration and finance. By specializing in the area of finance, you can build a competitive résumé of practical tools and skills. This degree can also give you an edge in addressing a variety of financial and economic analysis needs, healthcare concerns, and administrative situations.

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Healthcare Law and Compliance

Liberty University’s online master’s in healthcare administration – healthcare law and compliance aims to provide you with the knowledge, skills, and capabilities you need to navigate complex systems of laws, regulations, and policies. You can gain a comprehensive understanding of healthcare law and regulatory requirements that are essential to run healthcare organizations effectively.

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Human Resources

Liberty University’s online master’s in healthcare administration – human resources offers you the opportunity to study the most valuable asset of an organization: the people. You will explore contemporary issues within the human resource field. By adding to your current knowledge and training in healthcare with our online MHA degree, you can become equipped to identify and address a variety of healthcare-related, administrative concerns.

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Leadership

Liberty University’s online master’s in healthcare administration – leadership can help equip you with a sound knowledge of administrative and leadership principles applicable to healthcare settings. You will study how to influence organizational change within healthcare. You will also explore current healthcare policy and best practices as you learn to identify and address a variety of healthcare administrative concerns.

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Marketing

Liberty University’s online master’s in healthcare administration – marketing can help you gain a working knowledge of how to lead and market a healthcare organization. This program expounds upon key aspects of marketing in healthcare. By pairing your experience with our degree, you can become equipped to identify and address a variety of healthcare marketing concerns.

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Nonprofit Management

Liberty University’s online master’s in healthcare administration – nonprofit leadership and management is an excellent choice for students who are looking to work for a nonprofit group that is active within the healthcare industry. Our MHA degree in nonprofit management can help you identify and address a variety of nonprofit healthcare concerns.

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Project Management

Liberty University’s online master’s in healthcare administration – project management is an excellent choice for deadline-driven students who enjoy managing others and have an interest in the healthcare industry. The valuable skills you gain through this health administration degree in project management can help you gain an edge as a healthcare executive and empower you to oversee all facets of a project.

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Public Administration

Liberty University’s 100% online master’s in healthcare administration – public administration is designed to provide you with advanced training in health services and healthcare administration. By pursuing this healthcare administration master’s degree in public administration, you can learn about how government affects healthcare companies.

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Public Relations

Liberty University’s online master’s in healthcare administration – public relations can help you gain an understanding of how a healthcare organization can build relationships and loyalty with prospective clients. You will engage in a comprehensive investigation of public relations theory and study how to be successful in the corporate, private, and nonprofit healthcare sectors.

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Strategic Management

Supply Chain Management and Logistics

Liberty University’s online master’s in healthcare administration – supply chain management is designed to help students gain an understanding of the logistical side of healthcare. You will study a multidisciplinary function of supply chain management focused on efficiency and cost-effectiveness. This involves the design, execution, and control of internal processes required to take a healthcare product or service from conception to final delivery.

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Your success is our success, which is why we are committed to providing quality academics at an affordable tuition rate. While other colleges are increasing their tuition, we have frozen tuition rates for the majority of our undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs for the past 9 years – and counting.

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Admission Information for Liberty’s Master of Science in Healthcare Administration Online Degree

Admission Requirements

Apply online or over the phone with an admissions counselor by calling (800) 424-9596.
- A non-refundable, non-transferable $50 application fee will be posted on the current application upon enrollment (waived for qualifying service members, veterans, and military spouses – documentation verifying military status is required).
Send official college transcripts (mailed as sealed, unopened copies or sent via a direct electronic transcript system). A regionally or nationally accredited bachelor’s degree with at least a 3.0 GPA is required for admission in good standing. Applicants who have earned a master’s degree or at least 12 graduate credits from an accredited institution will be assessed on the basis of the master’s-level degree work.
- Unofficial transcripts can be used for acceptance purposes with the submission of a Transcript Request Form.
Applicants whose native language is other than English must submit official scores for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or an approved alternative assessment. For information on alternative assessments or TOEFL waivers, please call Admissions or view the official International Admissions policy.

Preliminary Acceptance

If you are sending in a preliminary transcript for acceptance, you must:

Be in your final term and planning to start your master’s degree after the last day of class for your bachelor’s degree.
Complete a Bachelor’s Self-Certification Form confirming your completion date. You may download the form from the Forms and Downloads page or contact an admissions counselor to submit the form on your behalf.
Submit an official/unofficial transcript to confirm that you are in your final term. The preliminary transcript must show a minimum of 105 completed credit hours.
If you are a current Liberty University student completing your undergraduate degree, you will need to submit a Degree/Certificate Completion Application.
Send in an additional, final official transcript with a conferral date on it by the end of your first semester of enrollment in the new master’s degree.

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Unofficial College Transcript Policy

Unofficial transcripts combined with a Transcript Request Form can be used for admission. Official transcripts are required within 60 days of the admissions decision or before non-attendance drops for the first set of matriculated classes, whichever comes first, and will prevent enrollment into future terms until all official transcripts have been received.

Before sending unofficial college transcripts, please make sure they include the following:

Your previous school’s name or logo printed on the document
Cumulative GPA
A list of completed courses and earned credit broken down by semester
Degree and date conferred (if applicable)

Official College Transcript Policy

An acceptable official college transcript is one that has been issued directly from the institution and is in a sealed envelope. If you have one in your possession, it must meet the same requirements. If your previous institution offers electronic official transcript processing, they can send the document directly to luoverify@liberty.edu.

If the student uses unofficial transcripts with a Transcript Request Form to gain acceptance, all official transcripts must be received within 60 days of the admissions decision or before non-attendance drops for the first set of matriculated classes, whichever comes first. Failure to send all official transcripts within the 60-day period will prevent enrollment into future terms until all official transcripts have been received.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What skills can I learn in Liberty’s MSHA degree?

Liberty’s online master’s in healthcare administration offers you a holistic education in business and health management that can equip you with skills needed to succeed in many career paths. The skills taught in this degree – which can help make you a valuable asset to an organization – include:

Crisis management techniques
Health administration and benefits management strategies
Leadership and management skills
Organizational behavior expertise

Why earn a master’s in health administration online?

Liberty’s online MHA program is an excellent way to earn your degree while staying active in your current schedule. We know that students choose to pursue a master’s degree in healthcare administration online with various career goals in mind. Liberty’s online MHA degree gives you the flexibility to personalize your degree with an area of study.

With more than 10 unique areas of study, you can customize your degree to meet your career goals. Whether you are interested in the financial, management, or marketing side of healthcare administration, our program can help you!

Liberty’s MHA online degree program can help equip you with the in-demand skills you need to thrive. Partner with us and take your career in healthcare to new heights!

What can you do with an online MSHA degree?

With Liberty’s Master of Science in Healthcare Administration, you can gain a balanced background of business and healthcare industry skills and knowledge. This in-depth and flexible skill set can help equip you for many business settings, but places an emphasis on roles in business that:

Administer health services and benefits
Develop and manage health records and research
Manage hospitals and healthcare services
Manage human resources

Even if a business is not in the healthcare industry, if they have employees, they likely deal with insurance and healthcare benefits. This common business reality means that having healthcare management expertise can make you a valuable asset in any industry.

What degree is needed to run a hospital?

It is difficult to say that one exact degree is the degree you need to run a hospital or become a healthcare administrator. Experience and familiarity with an organization are 2 critical components taken into consideration when hiring managers look to bring in or promote administrators.

A degree in nursing, healthcare informatics, or a related program of study could be your ticket into a healthcare facility — as could a masters in healthcare administration. Earning a masters degree in healthcare administration can go a long way in helping you pursue positions of added responsibility.

Every work environment and employer is different. No position is identical to another, and each job has its unique demands. That’s why our masters in healthcare administration online offers several specializations. That way, you can personalize your degree program to fit your career goals and unique strengths, grow in areas you’re most passionate about, and confidently pursue niche positions of added responsibility when they arise.

What’s the difference between a Master of Public Health and a master’s in healthcare administration?

A master’s degree in healthcare administration is not a business degree, but it does focus more on the business and administrative side of healthcare. This online MHA will cover legal issues, organizational behavior, financial analysis of healthcare administrations, and economics. If you’re interested in pursuing our master’s in healthcare administration degree online, you’re probably not looking to become a doctor or a scientist. Rather, you’re interested in running a facility where scientists work.

On the other hand, a Master of Public Health degree is more rooted in science, disease prevention, biostatistics, and research pertaining to your community’s physical health. If this is a career path that you would like to pursue, Liberty’s online Master of Public Health program may be a great fit for you!

Which is better: MBA or MHA?

Asking yourself whether an MBA is better than an MHA likely isn’t the best question you can ask yourself. The best question you can ask is, “Does an MBA or an MHA fit my career goals and interests better?”

At Liberty, we offer both a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA). Our online MBA is a versatile degree highly sought after by business professionals who are seeking career advancement opportunities in corporate settings. On the other hand, a MHA degree is ideal for professionals who have a shared passion for administrative work and healthcare. While both degree programs cover business concepts, a master’s in healthcare administration does so in a healthcare context.

Does this online MSHA degree require any field experience?

Though we encourage you to complete internships or acquire real-world experience outside of school, this online MSHA program does not require any field experience requirements, practicums, or internships.

If you’re interested in applying for and completing internships throughout your degree, our career center exists to help students prepare to pursue real-world opportunities – internships and full-time jobs alike. In addition, Liberty has partnered with Handshake to connect you to hiring managers.

Master of Science in Healthcare Administration Online Empowering Leaders for Tomorrow’s Healthcare Challenges

Become a Leading Force in Medical Organizations with Our Master’s in Healthcare Administration Degree

What is an MHA Degree?

What Will You Study in Liberty’s MSHA Degree Online Program?

Featured Courses

Degree Information for the Online MSHA Program

Why Choose Liberty’s Online Degree?

What Sets Us Apart?

Potential Career Options in the Field of Healthcare Administration

MS in Healthcare Administration Degree Options

Generalized Track: 42-credit-hour (No Specialization)

Accounting

Finance

Healthcare Law and Compliance

Human Resources

Leadership

Marketing

Nonprofit Management

Project Management

Public Administration

Public Relations

Strategic Management

Supply Chain Management and Logistics

Not sure what to choose?

Tuition & Aid

Financial Aid & Scholarships

Admission Information for Liberty’s Master of Science in Healthcare Administration Online Degree

Admission Requirements

Preliminary Acceptance

Dual Enrollment

Transcript Policies

Admissions Office Contact Information

Military

Frequently Asked Questions

What skills can I learn in Liberty’s MSHA degree?

Why earn a master’s in health administration online?

What can you do with an online MSHA degree?

What degree is needed to run a hospital?

What’s the difference between a Master of Public Health and a master’s in healthcare administration?

Which is better: MBA or MHA?

Does this online MSHA degree require any field experience?

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