This process in Eastern Nazarene College’s case is guided by the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. ENC established formal teach-out partnerships with five schools along with a secondary list of approximately 30 more schools that were offering help…
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With ENC’s Online management programs, you’ll not only gain tools to become a more effective leader, but you’ll also gain a better understanding of complex business challenges and how to develop successful solutions.
The Healthcare Administration and Management program was developed around three key priorities crucial to today’s healthcare workforce: project-based learning, data-driven decision making and analysis, and service operations. Students will be able to complete a strategy capstone that asks them to synthesize knowledge and skills to plan a strategic transition in a simulated healthcare system. In addition, students will have a significant project in most of their classes intended to allow them to practice the skills covered by that class.
Field of Study: Healthcare Administration
Division: Traditional Undergraduate
Locations: Fully Online
Options: Skilled Pathway
Degrees: Other
The program includes a dedicated course in Healthcare Service Operations which Healthcare Administration professionals have consistently flagged as an area of high priority, due to the increasing complexity of healthcare systems.
Students who wish to pursue more senior roles in these areas may need to complete a Master of Healthcare Leadership or a Master in Management in Healthcare Administration degree after obtaining some work experience. However, most roles in this area, including Hospital Administrator, Health Services Manager, Nursing Home Manager, and Health Administrator, are accessible to students upon completion of a bachelor’s degree or with two or fewer years of employment.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median annual salary for Medical and Health Service Managers is $104,280. With the increasing age of the Baby Boomer generation, the number of jobs in this field is expected to increase by 32% over the next 10 years – approximately 7 times faster than the national average – outstripping traditionally high–growth fields like Software Development (22%) by a wide margin.
Upon completion of the Healthcare Administration skilled pathway, graduates will be able to:
Almost all entry-level healthcare administration jobs require a bachelor’s and having educational training in Healthcare Administration specifically provides a massive advantage in earning potential and salary. People with a bachelor’s degree also have a 50% lower rate of unemployment, and on average, they make an additional $630,000 to $900,000 over their lifetime, even more in high-growth fields like this one.
Yes! The only way to make sure our program gives you the skills you need to get hired and teaches you to work through real-world problems is to partner with the people out there who are actually doing it. Our collaboration with Fortune 500 companies and subject matter experts means that their multi-billion-dollar expertise is reflected in everything you’ll study here.
Healthcare Administration is huge, and you can use the coveted skills from this program to secure many different kinds of high-growth employment. If the idea of helping facilitate a process that serves a large number of patients appeals to you, you may want to work as a hospital administrator. If you want a smaller scale and more personalized workplace, you may point towards being a nursing home or private practice administrator. In this field, the possibilities available to you are essentially endless.
A flipped classroom is one where the focus is not on lectures but on discussion, projects, and problem-solving. Students in flipped classrooms get the chance for more instructor feedback and, as a result, have been found to learn much, much faster.
If you are interested in developing your leadership skills, if you have a passion for helping people live healthy and fulfilling lives, if you are looking for a degree that opens a ton of doors to different high-growth careers, if you want to have a job that never gets boring, and if you want to gain a skill set that makes you more and more valuable as your career progresses, you should consider this field.
Flexibility. Optional Synchronous means our Healthcare Administration courses can be attended together at one time with other students or on your own schedule. Many students prefer the learning that comes with live interactions, while other students love the flexibility of doing their courses whenever it fits into their schedule.
The courses in this program are part of an exclusive partnership between ENC and Rize Education, which means you’ll be learning with students from your campus, as well as students from a selective consortium of schools across the country. That means you get to enjoy the small Christian college environment while also building a national network of people in your industry before you’ve even graduated.
We are offering these high demand, skills-focused programs through an innovative nationwide consortium of over 75 colleges and universities much like ENC. As a student in these programs, you enjoy the opportunity to attend a small Christian college while developing specialized skills that will prepare you for careers in some of today’s fastest-growing fields. In your major and your general education coursework, you will have the opportunity to develop a strong Christian worldview while the courses in the RIZE partnership programs will supplement that work by exposing you to industry experts who will teach you and students at other consortium institutions virtually. We refer to these programs as skilled pathways because they emphasize the in-demand skill-sets that employers are saying they need. Students who complete all of the courses in a particular program will have their completion of the courses recorded as a minor on their transcript upon graduation, but many of the individual courses and programs offer opportunities to complete industry certifications or prepare you to complete certification exams that can also be valuable additions to a resume.
For course descriptions, requirements, focus areas, options, and other program details see our full course catalog.
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