MHA Curriculum

“Healthcare administrators are the invisible partners of our healthcare system. They focus on the organization’s health — putting systems in place to keep facilities open and thriving, to ensure the delivery of quality services, and to make it easy for providers and patients to make the right decisions.”

LaVonna Lewis, Ph.D.
Teaching Professor

The USC Price MHA is built around a rigorous curriculum that includes in-class and experiential learning. To earn the MHA degree, students must successfully complete a total of 48 units, split between required and elective courses.

Required Core Courses (40 units)

• Introduction to Microeconomics – Applications in Health (PPD 506)
• Problems and Issues in the Health Field (PPD 509)
• Financial Management of Health Services (PPD 510a)
• Health Information Systems (PPD 511)
• Health Administration Residency Seminar (PPD 512)
• Legal Issues in Health Care Delivery (PPD 513)
• Economic Concepts Applied to Health (PPD 514)
• Strategic Management of Health Organizations (PPD 515)
• Financial Accounting for Health Care Organizations (PPD 516)
• Concepts and Practices in Managing Health Care Organizations (PPD 517)
• Quality of Care Concepts (PPD 518)
• Human Behavior in Public Organizations (PPD 545)
• Multivariate Statistical Analysis (PPD 558)

Electives

In addition to the 40 required units, students complete 8 units of electives.

Statistics Prerequisites

The Price MHA program requires all entering students demonstrate proficiency in relevant statistical methods. The statistics prerequisite must be satisfied prior to enrollment:

• Completion of a college-level statistics or econometrics course with a grade of “B” or better within three years of matriculation. At minimum, prior coursework must have included essential topics in descriptive and inferential statistics such as measures of central tendency and precision, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing.
• If relevant statistical coursework was completed more than three years prior, a waiver may be granted based on the level of statistical training completed and the degree to which currency with this material was maintained through subsequent professional use.

View MHA 2-year course sequencing & list of elective courses »

For questions about the MHA curriculum, please contact Program Administrator Jennifer Kim at [email protected].