Masters in Hospital Administration

[DPTATC06]

Sorry to be a snooze in the middle of what has been an incredible Marquette run...

I am looking into possibly getting a Masters in Hospital Administration and curious if anyone here has done so and if the extra education was worth it.  Any information would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

[Eldon]

Never heard of it.  Which schools offer the degree?  If you're looking into management of any kind, I would think MBA is the way to go.  MBA is much more flexible than a degree that pigeon-holes you solely to the health care field. 

If you want to focus on health care within the MBA, I'm sure there are some electives that you could take to get you the relevant experience/knowledge.  After your first year, try to get an internship with a hospital or healthcare provider.

[GGGG]

There are Healthcare MBA programs.

[jesmu84]

A good friend of mine, and fellow Marquette grad, got his Masters in Public Health at SLU. Really enjoyed the academics and loves his hospital admin job.

[Wareagle]

All depends on what you want to do afterwards.  Do you want to work in healthcare the rest of your life?  If so, it's a good way to become management. 

Do you work in healthcare now?  It may be a good idea to put in a couple years and then see if it's something you want to stick with.  An MHA wouldn't have that much applicability to other fields.

Full disclosure, I work for a large consulting firm and only work w/healthcare providers.

[exercisevanity]

I'm happy to discuss. I got my mha and JD from SLU, now an admin fellow. Postgraduate fellowships are phenomenal and really only available to MHA's and some rare MBA's

[mr.MUskie]

Take a look at the Time magazine article from a few week's ago.  They pretty much devoted a whole issue to hospital finances.  Hospital administrators making ridiculous money.  The article is way too long to post here, but here's just a random sentence I came across:  And in our largest cities, the system offers lavish paychecks even to midlevel hospital managers, like the 14 administrators at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center who are paid over $500,000 a year, including six who make over $1 million.