Master of Business Administration with track in Healthcare Administration
Deepen your business knowledge to lead, manage, and market healthcare organizations through the lens of high-quality patient care.
Program Overview
Learn to be a leader with the online MBA Healthcare Administration degree program
Today’s complex healthcare environment requires leaders, managers, and marketers with strong business foundations and specialized expertise to strengthen care delivery. The Longwood University online Master of Business Administration with track in Healthcare Administration program will enable you to move into advanced management and marketing roles that demand patient-centered leadership, data-informed decision-making, and practical problem-solving.
Guided by expert faculty, this 100% online program features an accelerated format ideal for working professionals. You will broaden your business acumen with eight core courses and utilize two targeted courses to expand your expertise to prepare you for leadership roles in healthcare. Upon completion of this MBA Healthcare Administration online program, you will be ready for higher-level responsibilities, such as managing costs, enhancing patient access, improving quality of care, and developing patient-focused marketing plans.
The online MBA in Healthcare Administration track, offered through the AACSB-accredited College of Business and Economics at Longwood University, upholds rigorous standards for high-quality education in business programs.
The College of Business and Economics at Longwood University is accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International).
Graduates of the MBA – Healthcare Administration track will:
- Use core healthcare management and marketing skills to make informed decisions about services, strategy, communication, and patient engagement across healthcare organizations
- Understand how healthcare policy, regulation, financing, workforce issues, and quality and access concerns influence organizational strategy and day-to-day operations
- Analyze information from healthcare data, information systems, and analytics tools to support ethical, evidence-based management and marketing decisions
- Apply ethical judgment, patient-centered thinking, and clear communication when addressing challenges that affect patients, teams, and other healthcare stakeholders
- Develop problem-solving, analysis, and communication skills vital for leadership and advancement within healthcare organizations
- Use core healthcare management and marketing skills to make informed decisions about services, strategy, communication, and patient engagement across healthcare organizations
- Understand how healthcare policy, regulation, financing, workforce issues, and quality and access concerns influence organizational strategy and day-to-day operations
- Analyze information from healthcare data, information systems, and analytics tools to support ethical, evidence-based management and marketing decisions
- Apply ethical judgment, patient-centered thinking, and clear communication when addressing challenges that affect patients, teams, and other healthcare stakeholders
- Develop problem-solving, analysis, and communication skills vital for leadership and advancement within healthcare organizations
Possible careers in healthcare administration:
- Medical and Health Services Manager
- Hospital Administrator
- Pharmaceutical Project Manager
- Medical and Health Services Manager
- Hospital Administrator
- Pharmaceutical Project Manager
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Tuition
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The MBA – Healthcare Administration track offers affordable, pay-by-the-course tuition. The application fee is $40. All other fees are included in the total cost.
Tuition breakdown:
Virginia students
| Program | Per Credit Hour | Per 3-Credit-Hour Course | Per Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| MBA - Healthcare Administration track | $450 | $1,350 | $13,950* |
Out-of-state students
| Program | Per Credit Hour | Per 3-Credit-Hour Course | Per Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| MBA - Healthcare Administration track | $460 | $1,380 | $14,260* |
Having spent my first 20 years in my career in the healthcare business, I often get asked what helped me take my role to a national level working for a Fortune 10 company. The answer is my recent graduation from Longwood’s MBA program.
-Christine Jordan, Longwood University MBA graduate
Calendar
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The Longwood University online MBA program is delivered in an accelerated format ideal for working professionals, conveniently featuring multiple start dates each year.
Now enrolling:
| 7 Week Courses | Application Deadline | Document Deadline | Registration Deadline | First Class Day | Final Tuition Deadline† | Last Class Day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall A | 8/7/26 | 8/14/26 | 8/21/26 | 8/24/26 | 8/27/26 | 10/12/26 |
| Fall B | 10/2/26 | 10/9/26 | 10/16/26 | 10/19/26 | 10/22/26 | 12/7/26 |
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Admissions
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We've streamlined the admission process for the Longwood University online MBA program to help you get started quickly and easily. Please read the requirements for the MBA – Healthcare Administration track, including what additional materials you need and where you should send them.
The requirements include:
Admission Requirements
Prior to starting their graduate program, students must hold a conferred bachelor's degree or international equivalent from a college or university accredited by the appropriate institutional (formerly regional) accreditation agency. Applicants must meet one of the following for consideration for admission:
- Completed bachelor's degree from a university accredited by the appropriate institutional (formerly regional) accreditation agency with minimum 2.75 GPA.
- Completed bachelor's degree from a university accredited by the appropriate institutional (formerly regional) accreditation agency with 2.50 - 2.74 GPA and five years of professional level work experience. * Professional experience is defined as paid work experience that includes some combination of complex decision-making or analysis, management of people or projects, and at least moderate impact on the work unit or firm.
- All other prospective students are strongly encouraged to apply. These applicants must submit a one-page maximum letter of interest briefly indicating their reason(s) for obtaining a Longwood MBA along with their transcripts, resume, and optional GMAT score.
Transcripts from all institutions where you obtained a degree, bachelor or higher, and any post-baccalaureate coursework to be submitted at the time of application and subject to verification and approval by the MBA Director.
Resume including years of professional level work experience to be submitted at the time of application and subject to verification and approval by the MBA Director.
*International applicants may be required to submit additional test scores and documentation.
** Application fee waived for military (active and former). Verification must be submitted with application (ID or other form).
Official transcripts, test scores and other documents should be sent from the granting institution(s) to:
Email address: [email protected] (preferred and quickest)
Mail address:
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Courses
View the topics in your accelerated MBA Healthcare Administration online program
For the MBA – Healthcare Administration track, you must complete 10 courses totaling 31 credit hours, including 25 credit hours of core courses, and 6 credit hours of electives.
You must take all courses listed below.
Learning Outcomes:
- Apply the principles of financial reasoning to business situations and assess business problems using time value of money techniques
- Perform quantitative and qualitative analysis of risk and return component
- Demonstrate general understanding of financial markets and instruments
- Apply the basic principles of security analysis and perform capital budgeting analysis
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand and explain the relationships between strategy with firm mission, vision, and objectives
- Analyze the general, competitive/industry, and internal environment through conducting systematic research with various analytical tools
- Assess the multiple facets of business issues to derive data-driven solutions
- Understand strategic decision-making and develop strategic plans at the business, corporate, and entrepreneurial level
- Create action plans with recommendations to implement and control strategic decisions
Learning Outcomes
- Apply appropriate terminology for IT systems to be able to communicate effectively regarding IT issues.
- Understand the role that IT plays in attaining and maintaining a competitive advantage in today’s rapidly changing business environment.
- Apply IT concepts to typical business situations and analyze cases to determine proper and improper application of IT principles.
- Critique positions on IT-related issues and debate the relative importance of technology applications in creating business value.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and explain theories, concepts, and research in leadership
- Analyze various leadership-related principles and topics including Leadership traits, Leadership Behaviors, Communication, Teamwork, Ethics, Power and Influence, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict
- Apply leadership concepts and theories to their everyday life, organizations, and current topics
- Develop their personal leadership philosophy
Learning Outcomes
- Apply theories and models to real-world situations
- Use statistics the correct way to deliver the information you need
- Learn how to use the data the right way
- Use statistics to make informed decisions
- Use models and techniques to create valuable information
Learning Outcomes:
- Use marginal analysis and thinking in optimization problems and distinguish different types of cost and their applicability in optimization problems
- Analyze the impact of changes in demand and supply conditions on the profit maximizing output and pricing decisions and calculate the price elasticity of demand and relate it with the profit maximizing price
- Demonstrate the value of framing managerial decision-making using a demand function
- Present univariate and multivariate patterns in data and perform regression analysis to estimate causal relationships; interpret regression output, including R-square, coefficients, p-values, and confidence intervals
- Conduct basic forecasting using regression output and be able to describe the strengths and weaknesses of ordinary least square (OLS) regression analysis
- Differentiate strategic from non-strategic decisions and analyze a strategic game and solve for equilibrium strategies and apply game theory to oligopolistic market structures
Learning Outcomes
- Explain marketing concepts in the context of marketing problems
- Design and debate proposals for solutions to marketing problems
- Construct a formal marketing plan
Learning Outcomes:
- Articulate how cost management helps organizations meet their strategic goals by managing costs
- Assign costs to production jobs or projects using different costing systems
- Assign activity costs to goods and services
- Build a basic cost-volume-profit (CVP) financial model and use a cost-benefit approach to common business decisions
- Demonstrate ethical reasoning in accounting and describe the importance of ethical behavior for managers and managerial accountants
*Price includes in-state tuition and fees. For students from outside Virginia, tuition and fees total $14,260.
**A resume verifying professional-level work experience must be submitted at the time of application and is subject to verification and approval by the MBA director.
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