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Healthcare Administration

Masters

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Accelerate your career opportunities and earning potential in a complex and exciting field that’s growing by leaps and bounds.

» Program Overview

Healthcare leaders for the Digital World

Accelerate your career in the rapidly growing field of healthcare administration, where you’ll enhance your earning potential and take on exciting challenges. You’ll have the opportunity to shape the future by managing systems, improving patient care, and driving efficiency.

With an aging population and rising healthcare costs, the demand for visionary healthcare administrators is skyrocketing. At Lawrence Tech, you’ll develop the leadership and strategic planning skills to excel in health services and systems management. Prepare for rewarding opportunities locally, nationally, and globally in a high-growth field with an average annual salary of over $100,000.

Why Healthcare Administration?
  • Expanding Opportunities: With increasing healthcare demands, administrators are needed across hospitals, clinics, and organizations locally, nationally, and globally.
  • Leadership Potential: This field offers a pathway to executive roles, enabling you to influence policy and strategy at the highest levels.
  • Transformational Impact: By optimizing healthcare delivery, administrators ensure better outcomes for patients and communities alike.
Why LTU?
  • Earn your degree with flexibility and focus through Lawrence Tech’s 30-credit program. Designed to accommodate the busy schedules of working professionals, it offers:
    • Two 15-Credit Certificates:
      • A Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Administration.
      • Your choice of a Healthcare Data Analytics Certificate or a Health Science Data Certificate.
      • Certifications awarded upon completion of each module.
    • 100% Online Program: Learn at your own pace while balancing your career and education.
    • Tailored for Leaders: Develop the skills and knowledge to advance into senior managerial and planning roles in health services and systems.

» Admission Requirements

Applicants to the Healthcare Administration Program must possess an undergraduate degree from an accredited university or its equivalent in another country.

Application Materials Required:

  • Online application which can be found at   ltu.edu/admissions/graduate
  • Non-refundable application fee of $50 that can be paid online
  • Official transcripts must be submitted from all post-secondary institutions attended
  • Professional resume showing your work experience and education history
  • A GMAT or GRE score is not required if your undergraduate cumulative GPA is 3.0 or better (waived if a graduate degree was earned)
  • If your GPA is lower than a 3.0, please submit a one-page purpose/goal statement and one letter of recommendation

Students seeking admission into the program may be admitted on a regular or conditional basis. The admissions committee will review the student’s educational background and work experience to determine the student’s admission status based on the following criteria:

  1. Completion of a baccalaureate degree or equivalent from an accredited institution of higher education
  2. Quality of the student’s academic record and educational background
  3. The nature and extent of the student’s work experience

» Curriculum

Healthcare Administration Graduate Certificate (15 Credits) – Required for MSHA Degree
COURSE NAME COURSE # CREDITS
Human Resource Management
MBA6013
3
Fundamentals of Healthcare Finance
HHS6053
3
Healthcare Administration
HHS6013
3
Healthcare Policy
HHS6023
3
Managerial Epidemiology
HHS6033
3
Healthcare Data Analytics Graduate Certificate (15 Credits) – Option 1
COURSE NAME COURSE # CREDITS
Management Information Systems
INT6043
3
Python for Data Analy & Vis
INT6103
3
Statistics for Data Analytics
MBA6103
3
Health Informatics and Data Privacy
HHS6043
3
Data Science for Business
INT7623
3
Healthcare Data Science Graduate Certificate (15 Credits) – Option 2
COURSE NAME COURSE # CREDITS
Programming Concepts for CS
MCS5003
3
Advanced Data Science
MCS5733
3
Statistics for Data Analytics
MBA6103
3
Health Informatics and Data Privacy
HHS6043
3
Machine Learning and Text
MCS5223
3

» Document Viewer

Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.