Master of Health Administration (MHA) — In Person and Live Virtual (synchronous)
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Learn the business of health care and expand your abilities to ensure optimal patient care. At Webster University, our Master of Health Administration (MHA) provides the knowledge and skills you need to make strategic decisions and lead diverse personnel in their critical efforts. Discover how Webster’s MHA degree program has made it possible for thousands of medical and health care professionals like you to balance work and life while expanding their career horizons.
Introduced in 1975, Webster’s Master of Health Administration program has continually evolved to meet the needs of our students. Today, we offer you true convenience with our Live Virtual MHA courses for a unique program that features:
While you enjoy this flexibility, you’ll also benefit from the collaboration and support of your cohort classmates made up of around 20 working health care professionals. Together, you’ll explore a wide range of business areas — from finance to marketing to health informatics — to develop skills and competencies specific to health care operations. Learn to lead organizations to be more efficient and effective in patient-centered care with our Master of Health Administration degree designed for you.
MBA, ’11, MHA, ’13
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.
Through live, virtual MHA courses, you’ll engage with professors and cohort classmates — working health care professionals in various functional areas. You’ll take part in discussions, hear diverse perspectives and make lasting connections.
Collaborate within your cohort to explore the operations of health care organizations, assessing complex issues and developing strategic solutions. You’ll be in direct contact with health administrators who may serve as mentors and further expand your network.
At the core of your MHA courses is Webster’s business education, which is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs and named among global programs for teaching excellence and a commitment to improvement.
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.
Webster offers an MBA/MHA dual degree program to build on your business education and expand your career possibilities.
The MSN/MHA dual degree is designed for the nurses desiring to earn a master's degree, and who have interest in nursing leadership and health care administration. The program focuses on the business of health care with an emphasis on high quality and safe patient care delivery and outcomes.
"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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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.
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Douglas Whitman: A business school class is going to teach great detail about running the financial side of a business…
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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.
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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.
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Whitman: The Webster MHA can be done in the live virtual format in as little as 16 months.
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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.
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Webster University 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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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.
Find out more about the overall curriculum, electives and learning outcomes for an MHA degree at Webster.
As a graduate of Webster’s Master of Health Administration program, you’ll have a broad understanding of the health care industry and specific health care administration skills to help organizations succeed. Demonstrate your expanded knowledge when you add these key competencies to your resume:
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 such as:
Webster graduates with a Master of Health Administration degree are in high demand. Positions for health care leaders are expected to rise by 32% — about three times faster than average — by the year 2030. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data also reports the 2021 median pay topped $100,000. It’s the perfect time to fulfill your personal and professional goals with an MHA degree.
MHA Admission Rate: In the 2022-2023 academic year, Webster University admitted 83% of applicants to its MHA program.
Take the next step toward earning your MHA. We are here to help you get started.
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If you have more questions about the program, your application or other enrollment-related inquiries, contact our Admissions Office.
Call 314-246-7800 or 800-753-6765 or send an email to admit@webster.edu.
