Master of Business Administration with Healthcare Analytics Certificate Online

Stand out as a healthcare leader who specializes in making data-driven decisions to improve patient and organizational outcomes. This affordable online MBA Healthcare Analytics program prepares you for in-demand roles in a fast-growing field.

Apply by: 12/16/24
Start class: 1/13/25

Program Overview

Discover the advantages of our online MBA in Healthcare Analytics

Total Tuition $15,270*
Duration As few as 12 months
Credit Hours 30

Earn your Master of Business Administration with Healthcare Analytics Certificate 100 percent online and distinguish yourself as a specialized leader who knows how to strategically leverage data to drive better decision-making. Learn how to extract meaningful insights from data generated by digital systems such as electronic health records, electronic billing systems and healthcare informatics applications so you can help stakeholders at every level of an organization improve outcomes.

This affordable MBA online program prepares you for upper-management opportunities in a variety of settings including hospital systems, telemedicine organizations, insurance companies, and pharmacies. With the flexibility of multiple start dates and no GMAT required, you can finish in as few as 12 months.

Graduates of the online MBA Healthcare Analytics will:

  • Hone critical thinking and problem-solving skills within healthcare organizations, ultimately improving the delivery of healthcare services
  • Delve into the functional areas of businesses (accounting, finance, marketing, operations, etc.) to better understand and communicate with specialists in those areas
  • Develop expertise in current and trending tools used to generate insights for decision-making
  • Develop and refine data preparation, management and analysis skills to tell more effective data stories within the healthcare industry
  • Understand how to develop predictive models for healthcare decision-making
  • Focus on developing data visualizations in order to tell interesting or important business stories
  • Understand data management systems and data warehouses, along with preparing data for analysis
  • Hone critical thinking and problem-solving skills within healthcare organizations, ultimately improving the delivery of healthcare services
  • Delve into the functional areas of businesses (accounting, finance, marketing, operations, etc.) to better understand and communicate with specialists in those areas
  • Develop expertise in current and trending tools used to generate insights for decision-making
  • Develop and refine data preparation, management and analysis skills to tell more effective data stories within the healthcare industry
  • Understand how to develop predictive models for healthcare decision-making
  • Focus on developing data visualizations in order to tell interesting or important business stories
  • Understand data management systems and data warehouses, along with preparing data for analysis

Career Opportunities:

  • Healthcare Analytics Manager
  • Senior Healthcare Analytics Consultant
  • Healthcare Reporting and Analytics Director
  • Clinical Operation Analytics Director
  • Health Performance Director
  • Healthcare Analytics Manager
  • Senior Healthcare Analytics Consultant
  • Healthcare Reporting and Analytics Director
  • Clinical Operation Analytics Director
  • Health Performance Director

Accreditation

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The College of Business and Management at the University of Illinois Springfield is accredited by AACSB International (AACSB). Fewer than 6% of business schools worldwide have earned this symbol of the highest standard in management education.

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Total Tuition $15,270*
Duration As few as 12 months
Credit Hours 30

Accreditation

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The College of Business and Management at the University of Illinois Springfield is accredited by AACSB International (AACSB). Fewer than 6% of business schools worldwide have earned this symbol of the highest standard in management education.

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Tuition

Stay on budget with affordable tuition

Earn a world-class education for less than you’d expect. Our pay-by-the-course tuition fits easily into your budget.

Tuition breakdown:

Total Tuition $15,270*
Per Credit Hour $509
*Total cost is estimated at $1,527 per course based on a semester fee schedule. Please note that students in the online MBA are not eligible to participate in the GA programs or use University of Illinois Employee/Child of Employee Tuition Waivers.
*Total cost is estimated at $1,527 per course based on a semester fee schedule. Please note that students in the online MBA are not eligible to participate in the GPSI/GA programs or use University of Illinois Employee/Child of Employee Tuition Waivers.

Full estimated cost of attendance is listed here: https://www.uis.edu/financial-aid/cost-attendance

Tuition breakdown:

Total Tuition $15,270*
Per Credit Hour $509

Calendar

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Designed for working professionals, UIS Online programs feature multiple start dates per year, so you can begin at the time that best fits your schedule and complete your degree quickly.

Now enrolling:

Next Apply Date 12/16/24
Next Class Start Date 1/13/25
TermStart DateApp DeadlineDocument DeadlineRegistration DeadlineTuition DeadlineClass End DateTerm Length
Fall 2024-2nd Half10/21/249/30/2410/8/2410/19/2410/20/2412/14/248 weeks
Spring 2025-1st Half1/13/2512/16/241/2/251/8/251/12/253/15/258 weeks
Spring 2025-2nd Half3/17/252/24/253/4/253/12/253/16/255/10/258 weeks
Summer 2025-1st Half6/2/255/12/255/20/255/28/256/1/257/26/258 weeks

Now enrolling:

Next Apply Date 12/16/24
Next Class Start Date 1/13/25

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Admissions

Key steps for admission to our online MBA in Healthcare Analytics program

We’ve streamlined our admission process for the MBA Healthcare Analytics online program to save you time and effort. Just follow these simple steps to apply.

Admission Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university
  • All official transcripts
  • No GMAT required

Applicants to the UIS Online MBA must meet at least one of the following combinations for admission.

  • Master’s degree or higher from a regionally accredited college or university
  • Bachelor's degree in business from a regionally accredited college or university with a 2.5 GPA or higher
  • Bachelor's degree with a non-business major from a regionally accredited college or university with a 2.5 GPA or higher and completion of gateway prerequisite courses BUS 501 Business Perspectives and ACC 505 Fundamentals of Business Decisions Making

Note: Students in the online MBA are not eligible to participate in the GA programs or to use University of Illinois Employee/Child of Employee Tuition Waivers.

Courses

Here’s what you will study in our online master’s in healthcare analytics program

For the online MBA Healthcare Analytics, you must complete 10 courses totaling 30 credit hours.

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Study of planning and internal management decision making and the use of accounting systems for control.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Study of the conceptual foundations and practices of contemporary marketing as well as the planning, implementation, and control of the marketing function. Topics include situation analysis; marketing objectives; target market selection; and product, promotion, pricing, and physical distribution decisions.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Operations management concerns the production and delivery of goods and services. This course focuses on those business processes, procedures and strategies used to transform various inputs into finished goods and services. Focus is on both understanding how the provision of goods is organized and managed and recognizing potential areas of improvement in the management or production of goods and services. Also of major study will be how operations management interfaces with other functional areas and the various issues and problems that traditionally arise in the field of operations management, including those related to technology, globalization, and ethics. Students who have not completed Managerial and Finance Accounting, Microeconomics and/0r Macroeconomics will be placed in ACC 505.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course will cultivate familiarity with a broad range of managerial as well as technical issues, technologies, and terminologies such as information systems high-level architecture and life cycle, information flow within organization, managerial decision making tools, data quality control and assurance, ethical and legal aspects of IS, and successful implementation of IS projects.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examination of impacts of individuals, groups, and structural attributes on behavior within organizations.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course emphasizes the formulation of organizational missions and the implementation of policies and strategies to assure their achievement. This course focuses on the oversight of entire operations in light of stakeholder expectations and legal and ethical considerations. Capstone Course

Course Objectives

  • Develop and practice the ability to think strategically and define business strategy
  • Evaluate the effects of political, cultural, legal, market and socioeconomic forces and analyze industry environment
  • Conduct an analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
  • Identify ways to create competitive advantage and superior firm performance
  • Develop business-level and corporate-level strategies
  • Analyze complex business problems, evaluate possible solutions, apply various frameworks
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Concepts and variables include those used in financial analysis, planning, and control. Topics include financial forecasting, capital budgeting, leverage, valuation, cost of capital market and related legal/ethical issues.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course consists of discussions of key concepts and practices of healthcare informatics on how information technology supports patient care and healthcare organizations. Topics include ethics, electronic health records, information infrastructure, data and information, basic research design, interoperability, privacy and security for health information, consumer health informatics, and trends and emerging technologies.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course introduces database theory and development techniques where the focus is on Data Retrieval and Data Preparation. Topics discussed include data modeling theories (entry-relationship diagrams), Normalization Theory, Structure Query Language (SQL), Report Writing, and a Survey of Contemporary Database Eco-Systems. The main goal is to build knowledge foundation to assume role as a data analyst.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Students and instructors will discuss data mining concepts, processes and techniques to develop and analyze exploratory and predictive models to generate meaningful insights in healthcare domain. Data-driven healthcare applications will be implemented with hands-on projects using data mining techniques. Prerequisite is HCI 542.
UIS ranked #5 among Regional Universities Midwest where students graduated with the least amount of debt by U.S. News & World Report (2021)

UIS ranked #5 among Regional Universities Midwest where students graduated with the least amount of debt by U.S. News & World Report (2021)

*Total cost is estimated at $1,527 per course based on a semester fee schedule. Please note that students in the online MBA are not eligible to participate in the GA programs or use University of Illinois Employee/Child of Employee Tuition Waivers.

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