To complete this degree, you will take a combination of required health administration courses that total 51 credits.
Executive MHA curriculum
Executive MHA schedule
Our Executive MHA program allows you to develop the skills you need to take the next step in your career.
Depending on the number of courses a student wants to take in a semester, the sequence below may change.
Candidates in the executive track may receive up to nine credit hours for their experience. Please contact the MHA program director, Dr. Antionette Smith Epps, at antsepps@iu.edu for more information.
Health Administration Executive program required courses
- H507 Management of Individual and Group Behavior (3 credits)
- H508 Managing Healthcare Accounting Information for Decision-Making (3 credits)
- H509 Financial Management Principles of Healthcare (3 credits)
- H514 Health Economics (3 credits)
- H516 Health Services Delivery and the Law (3 credits)
- H518 Statistical Methods for Health Services (3 credits)
- H521 Management Science for Health Services Administration (3 credits)
- H523 Health Services Human Resources Management (3 credits)
- H531 Population Health Management and Value-based Health Insurance (3 credits)
- H610 Lean Principles for Healthcare (3 credits)
- H612 Marketing Health Services Delivery (3 credits)
- H623 Healthcare Applications of Strategic Management (3 credits)
- H624 Developing Strategic Capability (3 credits)
- H628 Healthcare Information Systems (3 credits)
- H646 Operations Management for Healthcare Organizations (3 credits)
- H670 Leadership in Healthcare Administration (3 credits) *three 1 credit courses
- H702 Internship (3 credits)
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[Words appear on a white background under the IU trident: IUPUI, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health]
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[Video: A time-lapse of students walking on the IUPUI campus is shown for several seconds.]
[White words appear on a red banner in the center of the time-lapse: Master of Health Administration Curriculum Highlights]
[Video: A male begins speaking.]
Male: Our program’s been around for almost 50 years.
[Video: People walk and traffic passes the front entrance of Riley Hospital for Children.]
Male: We’ve trained some of the top healthcare leaders in our state, in our region.
[Video: Van drives pass the entrance of Methodist Hospital.]
Male: In fact, all across the united states.
[Video: The campus lawn and front entrance of Eskenazi Hospital appears, as people run along the sidewalk. A female begins speaking while Eskenazi Hospital is on screen]
Female: We, actually very intentionally, spoke with stakeholders.
[Video: Woman wearing a blue and white blouse and blue necklace appears. She is sitting in a room with green walls.]
[Words appear to the right of the IU trident: Dr. Ann Johnston, MHA Program Director]
Ann: So in terms of alumni, students, faculty, practitioners in the field and really surveyed them for what skills, knowledge they thought that future healthcare leaders would need.
[Video: Man wearing a blue shirt and tie appear, sitting in an office with beige walls.]
[Words appear to the right of the IU trident: Dr. Nir Menachemi, Professor and Department Chair]
Nir: We’ve made changes to the curriculum, we’ve recruited faculty members, with the expertise to meet those needs…
[Video: Dean of Fairbanks talks in an office with several people sitting around a table.]
Nir: … and we are now proud to say we’re training our students for all of those things at a world class level.
[Video: Male professor teaches a stadium class of students, then a girl is shown walking in a hospital hall holding a folder. A different male begins speaking]
[Words appear to the right of the IU trident: Matt Relano, Student: Lean Priniciples]
Matt: My favorite class so far in the MHA program has to be my Lean class.
[Video: Woman, sitting in an office with blonde hair and a pink jacket, begins speaking.]
[Words appear to the right of the IU trident: Alicia Schulhof, Course Instructor: Lean Principles]
Alicia: Lean, if I were to describe it, is basically enabling team members, or in this case students, to become problem solvers. It teaches the fundamental techniques for problem solving and it does so in a very systematic form.
[Video: Young man with glasses sits in an office with green walls, wearing a suit and tie, and begins speaking.]
[Words appear to the right of the IU trident: Vikram Sidhu, Student: Lean Principles]
Vikram: And it’s basically founded around two different principles: one is continuous improvement and the second is respect for people. And so, that class applied those principles in the field of healthcare.
[Video: Matt is shown speaking again.]
Matt: She taught us the lean principles but she also taught us the leadership way of how to be a lean leader. So I got a lot of value from that class.
[Video: Young female, wearing a gray suit, sitting in an office room and begins speaking.]
[Words appear to the right of the IU trident: Alexandra Simonton, Alumna: Strategic Planning]
Alexandra: I really liked our strategy class because we were able to work on a case and...
[Video: Alexandra is shown sitting in a class with students. She smiles at what the others are saying. She is then shown sitting and talking in a group circle with students in the class.]
Alexandra: … it just gives you really good experience for learning how to problem solve anf approach a complex situation.
[Video: Nir is shown speaking again.]
[Words appear to the right of the IU trident: Dr. Nir Menachemi, Course Instructor: Strategic Planning]
Nir: In many ways, leaders have to position their organizations for harmony given the changing environment that they’re in.
[Video: Nir is shown teaching a class.]
Nir: And so, strategic planning is the process by which a leader of an organization identifies what needs to happen for that organization to continue to be successful.
[Video: While Nir’s class is being shown, a female voice begins speaking in voiceover.]
Woman: I had to take two accounting courses and the second one is a healthcare finance course by Gary Brumitt and I really enjoyed that class.
[Video: The woman speaking is shown and she has short hair, is wearing a suit jacket, and is sitting in front of a window.]
[Words appear to the right of the IU trident: Mackenzie Szymanski, Student: Health Care Finance]
Mackenzie: I am terrible at math and it was really difficult. So it was a challenge within itself which was kind of tough but fun.
[Video: Man in a white shirt and tie begins speaking. He is sitting in an office in front of a whiteboard.]
[Words appear to the right of the IU trident: Gary Brumitt, Course Instructor: Health Care Finance]
Gary: What I try to do is, I try to demystify finance.
[Video: The outside of the Human Sciences Building on the IUPUI campus is shown and a truck drives by the entrance. Mackenzie begins speaking, and then she is shown again.]
Mackenzie: I liked him a lot because I felt like he knew how to take the concept and apply it to a situation…
[Video: Voiceover of Mackenzie continues as Alexandra is shown walking through an office carrying a folder to someone. She hands the folder to them and they begin talking.]
Mackenzie: … and looking at healthcare from a whole new perspective for me that I haven’t done before.
Gary: Irrespective of where you go in healthcare, having a good set of finance skills work to sustain those organizations’ existence.
[Video: Voiceover of Gary starts as students are shown conversing in a class, a female instructor teaches a class while writing on a whiteboard, and then a female voiceover begins.]
Woman: We have used the human resources course to bring in the whole governance structure for healthcare organizations because really human resources strategy starts with governance…
[Video: A woman wearing glasses, a blue blouse and scarf begins speaking. She is sitting in an office.]
[Words appear to the right of the IU trident: Sarah Johnson, Course Instructor: Human Resources Management]
Sara: … and how the organization is governed by a board of trustees.
[Video: A young male wearing glasses, a gray suit, and tie begins speaking. He is sitting behind a desk in a meeting room.]
[Words appear to the right of the IU trident: Kalob Gossett, Student: Human Resources Management]
Kaleb: I really enjoyed that because it gives you some aspects and insights into theories as to why people say and do the things they do.
[Video: Kaleb is shown in a classroom of students as they listen attentively to an instructor while his voiceover from the meeting room continues. He is then shown again speaking in the meeting room.]
Kaleb: Being a part of an industry that is very people-driven and focused, I think that’s essential to at least understanding that to the best of your ability so that it makes your job easier and you can give better quality of care to people as well.
[Video: Ann Johnston appears again in the room with the green walls.]
Ann: I think the most exciting conclusion we’ve come to in the past year is the curriculum needs to be dynamic. And we’re all committed to consistently get harvesting feedback from the practitioners and alumni…
[Video: Students walking through the skywalk tunnel on IUPUI’s campus are shown, as wells as cars passing through campus. An IUPUI pole flag on campus in front of the cityscape is zoomed in on.]
Ann: … and students and faculty to make sure that we’re constantly adjusting the curriculum to meet the future needs.
[Video: Students walking through the skywalk tunnel on IUPUI’s campus are shown, as wells as cars passing through campus. An IUPUI pole flag on campus in front of the cityscape is zoomed in on.]
[Words appear on a white background under the IU trident as music plays: IUPUI, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health]
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