MBA Healthcare Management
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- Programme length : 2 years part-time
- Total programme fees : £13,440
An MBA aimed at aspiring healthcare leaders
Nowhere is effective leadership more important than in healthcare contexts, where, as recognised by the UK’s National Health Service, good management is vital to ensuring maximum healthcare value is delivered from the often-limited resources available.
At York, we’re passionate about sharing our healthcare management insights with students. This online postgraduate programme focuses on the unique challenges faced by healthcare leaders working within a complex, professional and diverse environment. In addition to fundamental business and leadership knowledge, it also overviews the policy and managerial strategies needed to improve healthcare organisations and outcomes. You will be actively encouraged to apply your workplace experience to your learning activities.
Delivered entirely online and part-time, the programme is designed to help working healthcare professionals balance the requirements of an MBA with important life responsibilities including work, family and friends.




What you’ll learn on the MBA Healthcare Management:
- Management strategy
- Financial resources and risks within an organisation
- Marketing in a global society
- Leading and managing change
- Improving quality in healthcare
- Healthcare management and organisation
- Healthcare policy challenges
- Economics in healthcare management
- Business consultancy
Advancing your career
This online MBA Healthcare Management is designed to equip you with the diverse skills, knowledge and competencies needed to enhance your career prospects and capability to lead and manage in healthcare contexts. The programme combines business and leadership essentials including strategy, finance and marketing with knowledge and skills in areas unique to healthcare management including quality, policy and economics.
Your learning will also be enhanced by insights from the University of York’s key research themes affecting the modern workplace including globalisation, the ongoing revolution in information technology, risk and financial stability, ethics and business behaviour and the transformation of public services.
- Career opportunities
- healthcare manager or healthcare consultant
- hospital administrator
- pharmaceutical project manager
- healthcare marketing manager
- clinical manager
- medical director or administrative director
- health information manager


Entry requirements for home and international students
- 2:2 undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification and managerial work experience within health & social care or related setting over a minimum of three years.
- Applicants with no or lower grade undergraduate degree can be considered if they have substantive professional experience.
If English isn't your first language you may need to provide evidence of your English language ability. We accept the following qualifications:
- International English Language Testing System (IELTS): 6.5, with 6.0 in each component
- TOEFL IBT (internet-based and special home edition): 87, with 21 in each component
- Trinity ISE: Level 3, with Merit in each component
- PTE Academic: 61, with 55 in each component
- Cambridge B2 First: 176, with 169 in each component
- LanguageCert SELT B2: 33/50 in each component
- LanguageCert Academic: 70, with a minimum of 65 in each component
- Duolingo: 120, with 105 in each component
- KTE: 478-509, with 444-477 in all other components
- Skills for English B2: Merit overall, with Pass with Merit in each component
- Oxford ELLT: 7, with 6 in each component
- Oxford Test of English Advanced: 136, with 126 in each component
- GCSE: B/6 or above
You need to have completed the test within two and a half years of the start date of your programme. You cannot combine scores from more than one sitting of the test.
You may not need to provide evidence of your English language abilities:
- If you’re from a specified majority English-speaking country
- If you’ve completed a degree in English in a specified country within seven years of your intended start date


Modules
This module provides a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary, global healthcare policy challenges, including analysing policy development processes, evaluating stakeholder engagement, exploring public health principles, examining digital health and analytics, addressing workforce development issues, enhancing critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and developing effective communication and collaboration abilities in the context of healthcare policy.
This module introduces students to health economics and its relevance to key agents, institutions and structures within healthcare. It provides a toolkit for evaluating interventions in terms of their ability to deliver value for money and a framework for understanding, measuring and addressing health inequalities.
This module aims to develop a critical and practical understanding of leading continuous improvement within health and care systems in topics including: variation and its impact on care delivery, applying lean operations to health and care service delivery, how to foster and maintain an improvement culture and more.
This module examines change practices within organisations. It aims to provide a critical introduction to theories of change and explores, through a variety of cases both real and simulated, how they can shape effective practice.
This module aims to develop a critical and practical understanding of the challenges of organising, managing and leading change in healthcare as a distinctive sector or area of activity. You will learn about the wider policy context within which healthcare organisations operate, organisational culture in shaping practice and delivery and more.
This module specially aims to give you an understanding of financial management, and the financial resources and risks within an organisation. It enables the interpretation of financial statements from business, facilitates investment and funding decisions perspectives, and explores a range of possible financial risks.
This module examines marketing for businesses in a global society and explores the marketing challenges that all organisations face. It aims to study marketing management for businesses in global settings and to develop the capacity to learn and engage with the opportunities and challenges of communicating brand images and corporate values across national, linguistic and cultural borders to a variety of consumers. It also considers a variety of methods, including new social media, as a mechanism of distributing knowledge and information.
This module explores management strategy and focuses on being a leader for the future. It provides an overview of strategic management theories and pays particular attention to ethical leadership and global citizenship and their impact on organisations.
This module focuses on the research skills needed to perform consultancy within an organisation. It provides an introduction to a range of research skills which will enable consultancy work to be conducted within an organisation.
This module encourages your creativity to produce a valid and robust proposal for a consultancy project and to pitch your idea in a Dragon’s Den style environment. It provides the opportunity to create a valid and robust proposal for carrying out a consultancy piece of work within an organisation, including rigorous consideration of the ethics process.
This module is the culmination of the MBA journey. It encapsulates all the knowledge and experience that you have learned throughout your course and is presented in the framework of a portfolio exploring a management problem or issue. It allows you to apply your knowledge and skills learned throughout the course to a specific issue(s) identified within an organisation, to establish a method of researching it and to be able to present a rigorous and sound solution.
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