Healthcare Management
Bachelor of Science | COLLEGE FOR ADULTS
About the program
Are you passionate about using business knowledge to improve healthcare? Do you have some work or educational experience in healthcare and want a bachelor’s completion option that will accelerate your career?
Consider a bachelor’s in Healthcare Management from St. Kate’s College for Adults. Acquire ethical management and leadership skills. Learn essential business knowledge to help healthcare organizations operate more effectively and improve patient care.
What can I do with a degree in Healthcare Management?
Healthcare systems need skilled professionals to help them lead and manage in a time of rapid change. Almost a quarter of all new jobs created within the next ten years are projected to be within the healthcare sector.
Healthcare Management graduates are prepared to become administrators, managers, planners in organizations across the health sector such as:
• Hospitals and clinics
• Accountable care organizations
• Health information technology companies
• Biomedical firms
• Community, public health and social service agencies
• Long term care facilities
• Insurance providers
• Medical device companies
• Pharmaceutical companies
• Fortune 500 companies with healthcare divisions
The projected growth of healthcare management positions is 28 percent from 2022 to 2032, much faster than the average for all occupations, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In 2023, according to the BLS, the median annual earnings for medical and health services managers was $110,680.
Class scheduling / time to completion
The major courses meet online, with a combination of synchronous and asynchronous learning formats.
The Healthcare Management major may be completed in 21 months. You may need longer to complete liberal arts and elective courses.
What will I study?
In the Healthcare Management major, you will study business practices, leadership skills and support services used by successful professionals, gaining the skills that employers want:
• Healthcare analytics
• Interprofessional teamwork
• Healthcare finance
• Healthcare quality and innovation
St. Kate’s healthcare management students benefit from abundant resources as they move through the program towards their career goals. Exceptional instructors, both full-time professors and practicing professionals with a broad range of experience, provide a balanced theoretical and applied business curriculum.
Business portfolio
In your portfolio, you will integrate the experience you bring with you as an adult student with knowledge gained in the Healthcare Management major. You’ll validate your experiences at St. Kate’s and reflect on how you’ll connect them to your work. The portfolio is cumulative you’ll complete most aspects during course work throughout the program.
Bachelor’s-to-MBA Pathway
While pursuing your bachelor’s degree in the College for Adults, you may be eligible to substitute up to three courses from St. Kate’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) for courses required for the Healthcare Management major. Credits earned will count toward both your bachelor’s and your future MBA. Depending on your previous transfer credits, it may be possible to complete the Healthcare Management major and MBA in as few as 33 months.
Credit for prior learning
St. Kate’s values the business and healthcare expertise that students bring with them to the program. You may be eligible to earn credit for your professional experience through the Credit for Prior and Alternative Learning (CPAL) portfolio option, saving time and money on your bachelor’s degree.
Your program of study
Major courses
• *BUSI 4750: Business Practicum (2 credits)
• BUSI 4800: Business Portfolio (0 credits)
• LEAD 2202: Leadership and Influence (2 credits)
• *LEAD 3400: Leadership, Effective Teams and Change Management (4 credits)
• *MGMT 2402: Principles of Management (2 credits)
• *MGMT 3850: Healthcare Policy (4 credits)
• *MGMT 4850: Senior Seminar in Healthcare Quality and Innovation (2 credits)
• Select one (2 credits):
o ACCT 3202: Business Finance
o ACCT xxxx: Healthcare Finance
• Select one (2 credits):
o BUSI 2012: Business Analytics
o BUSI xxxx: Healthcare Information Systems and Analytics
• Select one (2 credits):
o BUSI 3642: Legal Environment of Business
o BUSI xxxx: Ethical and Legal Issues in Healthcare
• Select one (2 credits)
o HLTH 2050: Foundations in Public Health
o IPE 1030 Healthcare Teams Foundations and Medical Terminology
o IPE 1040 Healthcare Teams and Quality Outcomes
• Select one (2 credits):
o MKTG 2302: Introduction to Marketing
o MKTG xxxx Marketing and Entrepreneurship in Healthcare
Supporting courses
Note: Students must complete supporting work with a grade of C- or higher.
• ACCT 2110: Financial Accounting (4 credits)
• *ACCT 2130: Managerial Accounting (4 credits)
• Select one of the following (minimum 2 credits): ECON 1080: Statistical Analysis for the Social Sciences
ECON 1090: Statistical Analysis for Decision Making
HLTH 1090 Biostatistics
PSYC 1090: Statistical Methods in Psychology
STAT 1090: Statistical Analysis
• *Select one course in Economics, such as ECON 3250: Healthcare Economics (4 credits)
School of Business
Healthcare Management is a major in the University’s School of Business, offering certificates, bachelor’s and master’s programs through the St. Kate’s College for Adults, College for Women and College of Graduate Studies.
All information is subject to change
The information in this document applies to students entering the College for Adults in Fall 2024 or later. Provisions of this document are subject to change at any time. Consult the St. Catherine University Undergraduate Academic Catalog for official requirements
Core liberal arts courses
• CORE 1000W: The Reflective Woman: The Reflective Practitioner (4 credits)
• CORE 3990W: Global Search for Justice (4 credits)
• Behavioral and Social Sciences: choose one from communication studies, economics, political science, psychology or sociology (except ECON 1080, 1090, or PSYC 1090)
• Mathematics or Logical Reasoning: choose one from ECON 1080, ECON 1090, HLTH 1090, PSYC 1090, PHIL 2150, STAT 1089, STAT 1090, or any four-credit MATH course numbered 1000 or higher, except MATH 2500 and MATH 2510
• Natural Sciences: choose one course with a laboratory and/or field component in biology, chemistry, or physics
• Arts and Humanities: choose two courses from different disciplines: philosophy (except PHIL 2150), literature, history, foreign language, studio art, art history, creative writing, classics.
• Theology: choose one 1000 or any 2000-level theology course (except 2994 Topics)
Electives
Additional courses, as needed, to accumulate a minimum of 120 semester credits required for your bachelor’s degree
Core course exemptions
Students seeking a B.A., B.S. or B.S.N. degree who have completed:
• an A.A. degree from a regionally accredited institution, or the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum, can satisfy the LIFE core curriculum requirement by taking CORE 3990
• a previous bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution prior to enrollment at St. Catherine University are exempt from the LIFE core curriculum requirement
*Course substitutions within the major may be available for students who are eligible for CPAL credits or the Bachelor’s-toMBA pathway.
Next steps:
• Contact your admission counselor
• Ask for a free transfer evaluation
• Apply to start in Fall, Spring or Summer stkate.edu/adult 651-690-8700
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