Preparing business leaders to shape the future of health care.
Traditional health care education programs perpetuate the fragmented nature of the industry; for example, physicians and financial managers with conventional degrees often don’t understand each other’s business. To create real change, managers must fully grasp how all of the pieces of the health care puzzle fit together, and how each decision affects the entire system. The Vanderbilt Health Care MBA program provides a unique insight into this complex world through a blend of solid business basics plus experiential and integrative learning.
Students complete the Vanderbilt Health Care MBA program in two years by fulfilling the MBA core requirements, along with the requirements for a traditional MBA concentration in addition to the Health Care specialization.
The MBA Core
Because effective managers in all sectors of health care need solid grounding in management disciplines, Health Care MBA students take a set of core courses (28 credit hours) emphasizing business fundamentals. The core curriculum equips Vanderbilt students with exceptional analytical, strategic thinking, and teamwork skills.
A Focused Concentration
Health Care MBA students select from one of the following concentrations, each of which requires 12 credit hours beyond the core: Accounting, Finance, General Management, Human and Organizational Performance, Information Technology, Marketing, Operations or Strategy.
The Health Care Specialization
To earn the Health Care specialization, students complete a rigorous curriculum that requires more health care courses than other programs of its kind. In addition, the innovative seven-week modular framework allows students the flexibility to take a variety of health care electives.
The following courses are required to complete the specialization:
Health Care Clinical Immersion
Health Care Landscape
Health Care Delivery and Insurance
U.S. Health Care Industry: Health Care Policy
Health Care Regulation
Health Care Ethics (also satisfies school ethics requirement)
Plus choose one of the following:
Health Care Technology
Health Care Information Technology
Customize your degree with the following electives:
Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Finance and Accounting Financial and Strategic Analysis: Applications to Health Care Services Health Care Innovation Health Care Marketing Health Care Operations Learning by Doing
The Vanderbilt Health Care MBA offers a groundbreaking approach to educating health care business leaders with its focus on experiential and integrative learning. Students are actively engaged in real-world health care settings, “learning by doing” instead of just passively receiving information. Through immersion courses, students are encouraged to discover and create, integrate and interpret knowledge from different disciplines, and apply what they learn within real health care organizations. This unique learning experience is designed to educate the whole person, encouraging a broader outlook, the ability to see connections, and make sound decisions.
