100% online MBA Healthcare Management
Gain the skill set to excel as a healthcare leader
Credits:
180
180
Two years, part-time
£13,440
£13,440
Member of the prestigious Russell Group of universities
Integrates international healthcare research from developed and developing economies
Access healthcare research hub, with leading-edge research across healthcare and management
Pay-per-module
Total programme cost: £13,440
Ranked 18th in UK for Business and Management Studies (Complete University Guide 2025)
Next start: 13 January 2025
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.
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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 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
Why York?
- Part of the elite Russell Group of major research-intensive universities
- Over 20,000 students and 4,000 staff from 150 countries
- Ranked joint 10th in the UK for research quality (Research Excellence Framework 2021)
- 17th overall in the Complete University Guide 2025
- University of the Year shortlisted (Times Higher Education Awards 2021)
- University of the Year shortlisted (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022)
Entry requirements for home and international students
- 2:2 undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification. If you earned your degree outside the UK, our country-specific pages can help you check if it’s equivalent to a 2:2.
- Three years of managerial work experience
Or:
- Applicants with no or lower grade undergraduate degree may be considered if you have substantive professional experience
English language requirements
If English isn’t your first language you may need to provide evidence of your ability, we accept:
- International English Language Testing System (IELTS): 6.5, with a minimum of 6.5 in Writing and no less than 6.0 in all other components
- TOEFL IBT (internet-based and special home edition): 87, with a minimum of 23 in Writing and a minimum of 21 in all other components
- Trinity ISE: Level 3 with Merit in all components
- PTE Academic: 61, with a minimum of 61 in Writing and no less than 55 in all other components
- Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) and Cambridge Proficiency (CPE): 176, with a minimum of 176 in Writing and no less than 169 in all other components
- GCSE: B / 6 or above
- Duolingo: 120, minimum 120 in production and 105 in all other components
- LanguageCert B2 Communicator: Pass with 33/50 in all other components
- LanguageCert Academic: 70 with a minimum of 70 in Writing and no less than 65 in all other components
- KITE: 459-494, with 459-494 in writing and 426-458 in all other components
- Skills for English: B2: Merit overall, with Merit in writing and Pass with Merit in all other components
- Oxford ELLT: 7 with a minimum of 7 in writing and 6 in all other components
Applicants who have completed a degree in English in the last seven years or who have completed work experience at an English-speaking organisation within the last two years may also be considered.
Modules
Strategy in Practice (15 credits)
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.
Managing Financial Resources and Risk (15 credits)
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.
Leading and Managing Organisational Change (15 credits)
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.
Marketing and Society (15 credits)
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.
Improving Quality in Healthcare (15 credits)
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.
Managing and Organising in Healthcare (15 credits)
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.
Contemporary Challenges Healthcare Policy (15 credits)
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.
Health Economics for Healthcare Managers (15 credits)
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.
Foundations of Business Consultancy (15 credits)
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.
Consultancy Proposal and Pitch (15 credits)
This module encourages your creativity to produce a valid and robust proposal and pitch for a consultancy project. 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.
MBA Consultancy Portfolio (30 credits)
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.