Healthcare Management MBA
Explore the role of managers and leaders in healthcare services – and take the next step in your career.
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Modern healthcare is complex and requires highly skilled leaders and managers.
With rapid advances in treatments and information technologies, demand for quality healthcare is growing. At the same time, resources can be limited.
Healthcare leaders need skills in financial management, strategic planning, and organisational design. Confidence in organisational decision-making and managing change is also key.
Study MBA Healthcare Management at ARU and get the skills you deliver healthcare services for the 21st century.
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Learn to enhance the quality of health services
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Discover ways to manage complex change
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Open up career opportunities in senior management and leadership
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Study in a way that suits you, with full- and part-time options available
Study at an award-winning university
We were named Times Higher Education University of the Year 2023. We've also been awarded a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework – a reflection of the outstanding education we offer our students.
Careers
Prepare for operational and senior managerial positions in the UK or internationally.
If you’re a recent graduate, or a professional with experience in health or social care, this MBA could be the vital next step in your career.
It’s a great way to deepen your knowledge of a subject you’re passionate about.
When you graduate, you’ll have the skills and insight to enhance service provision and manage complex change.
Teaching and modules
Explore the role of the leader, the importance of strategy, and the challenges facing decision-makers in health and social care.
On this MBA, you'll learn more about issues that are faced by managers and leaders worldwide.
Drawing on management theory and research, we’ll cover topics including organisational behaviour, entrepreneurship, innovation, health economics and health information systems.
You’ll examine key areas of business – such as finance, accounting and marketing – in the context of healthcare provision.
Having gained skills in research design, you’ll also address a research question of your own in your Major Project.
Modules are subject to change and availability, and may vary by location. If you have the choice of optional modules, these are indicated with a *.
- Organisational Behaviour in Healthcare
- Financial Management in Healthcare
- Managing and Leading Healthcare Organisational Change
- Postgraduate Research Design
- Strategic Management in Healthcare
- Major Project Healthcare Management and Health Informatics
It's possible to study this course part-time. You'll take the same modules as MBA students, but sometimes in a different order or in different years.
As a part-time student you'll typically study for twice as long as full-time students. For example, if the MBA course takes one year, you can expect to study over two years, though for some courses this may vary.
- Finance, Accounting and Marketing in Health Care
- Advancing Decision Making for Healthcare Professionals
- Enabling Leadership in Health Care
- Strategy Healthcare Management
- Postgraduate Research Design (30 credits)
- Major Project Health Management and Health Informatics
Read profiles of teaching and research staff on this course.
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Dr Senaka FernandoSenior Lecturer
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Dr Bachchu Kailash KainiSenior Lecturer
Facilities
Enjoy a range of facilities designed to support your studies and career development.
These include extensive library and IT resources, and careers support through our Employability Service. After you graduate, you’ll have lifelong access to our Alumni Career Centre.
You can also access support, should you need it, with study skills, health and wellbeing, and more.