28% Growth
Complete in less than 12 months and for under $11,000.
Make an impact on the business side of healthcare. From marketing and IT to policy and economics, our Master of Health Administration (Competency-Based) is designed to equip you with 36 key skills to help you shape your healthcare facility from the top down.
Self-governed, with the assistance of your instructor, this program is designed for working professionals who have a bachelor’s degree and three years of experience in a healthcare environment. To be successful in the program, you’ll also need strong organizational and time management skills.
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Education should hold practical value. That’s why our courses meet rigorous academic standards and provide you with skills and knowledge immediately applicable to your career.
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In a competency-based program, you earn credit by demonstrating your knowledge of a core skill, or competency. Since there are 36 credits in this program, one competency equals one credit, three credits per course.
Admissions requirements for this program:
4 courses at a time
16 weeks per course
12 courses per year
Your academic counselor will help schedule your courses for a Master of Health Administration (Competency-Based).
Learning shouldn’t take years to put into practice. That’s why we’re empowering you to build career-relevant skills with every course.
We’ve worked with labor market researchers like Lightcast to find in-demand skills for occupations and mapped those to our related associate, bachelor’s and master’s degree programs.
Learning shouldn’t take years to put into practice. That’s why we’re empowering you to build career-relevant skills with every course.
We’ve worked with labor market researchers like Lightcast to find in-demand skills for occupations and mapped those to our related associate, bachelor’s and master’s degree programs.
Keep the same fixed, affordable tuition from start to finish of your degree program, even if it takes longer than you planned. That’s our promise: no matter what surprises life brings, you can count on us. That's your Tuition Guarantee.
COA Components | Master's Credit-Based CBE |
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Tuition and Fees¹
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$7,200
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Books, course materials, supplies and equipment
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$48
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Transportation
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$1,088
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Miscellaneous personal expenses
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$440
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Living Expenses²
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Food
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$2,120
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Housing³
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$4,096
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Federal student loan fees
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$72
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Dependent care expenses
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$0
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Disability related expenses
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$0
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Total COA
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$15,064
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1The tuition component is based on a per credit weighted average for the credential level across the entire University.
2The University allows the same living expense amounts for students in all living arrangements and dependency statuses.
3The living expense component for students receiving Military Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) only includes an allowance for food.
Discover where your degree might take you and make informed choices about your future.
An MHA can help prepare you to be a:
Student outcomes can be viewed by clicking on the following link to the CAHME website.
Top skills learned in this program:
Health Administration
Business Management
Communications
Leadership
Professionalism
Strategic Planning
Start your application for free or request additional information.
When you earn your online degree, you’ll be equipped with a concrete set of skills you can apply on the job. You’ll learn how to:
28% Growth
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, job growth for medical and health services managers is projected to be much faster than average between 2021 and 2031.
The BLS Projected Growth for 2021-2031 is published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This data reflects the BLS’ projections of national (not local) conditions. These data points are not specific to University of Phoenix students or graduates.
The Master of Health Administration prepares early- to mid-careerists in the health sector, who desire to pursue a degree while employed, with the competencies necessary to grow professionally, facilitate cross-system transformation of the sector as driven by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) Triple Aim, and engage with their communities.
Creating a new type of health sector leader who is authentic, transparent, and creative – who thinks critically and with agility, comfortable at the intersection of industry expertise and academic scholarship.
Starting your degree is a big decision — and we want you to feel great about it. That’s why we remove obstacles from your application.
How to enroll at University of Phoenix
Gabriel G., Enrollment Rep
You’ll have a support team of real people you can lean on to encourage your success as a student. Start a conversation about your future with one of our enrollment representatives today.
Call us at 844-937-8679 or chat with us 7 days a week.
Work toward your degree without giving up what matters most. Start your degree year-round and take one class at a time.
Enroll in online classes and attend class whenever it fits your life, day or night.
You have a support team available up to 20 hours a day, 5 days a week. And our academic counselors, who are with you every step of the way, have earned a 5-star rating from 90% of our surveyed students.1
[1] Transactional Survey, August 2021-22 (18,645 respondents)
Your success is a top priority for our deans and faculty members. They bring an average of 26 years of experience and hands-on perspective to the classroom, and help bridge the gap between academics and industry knowledge.
The Master of Health Administration (MHA) program is programmatically accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME), PO Box 911, Spring House, PA 19477,
301-298-1820.
Accredited since November 2019.
While widely available, not all programs are available to residents of all states. Please check with a University Enrollment Representative.