Health Management & Policy 
Dual Masters Degree in Business - Dearborn
Master of Health Services Administration-UMAA
Master of Business Administration-UM Dearborn (M.H.S.A./MBA-Dearborn)
The UM-Dearborn School of Management (SOM) and the UM-Ann Arbor School
of Public Health (SPH) offer a jointly administered Dual Degree program
leading to the Master of Health Services Administration (M.H.S.A.) and the
Master of Business Administration (MBA). This program takes advantage
of many areas of overlap between the two curricula, and allows admitted
students to receive both degrees upon completion of a minimum of 81 graduate
credits. (The department also offers a dual M.H.S.A./MBA in collaboration
with the UM Ann Arbor Business School.)
The UM-Dearborn MBA requires a minimum of 60 credits. This is offered
in two formats – through evening courses targeted to full-time
working professionals taking part-time course loads; and through web-based
courses.
The program is currently open only to residential M.H.S.A. students.
Program Benefits
The MBA offers a number of skills beyond the M.H.S.A., including expanded
coverage of finance, marketing, and strategies as practiced in industries
other than health care. It is valuable to understand the management of
for-profit corporations in health care, and it provides a broader foundation
for senior management positions in all sectors.
The MBA-Dearborn opportunity offers students great scheduling flexibility
from being able to take evening and web-based MBA courses and an opportunity
to earn both degrees with a total of 81 credits. (The MBA is available
in a fully web-based format.) These advantages allow students who are
accepted to both programs to pursue full-time work during the latter
years of their study.
Admissions, Student Services, and Administration
Students must apply to and be accepted by each school to pursue the
dual degree. Students already enrolled in either degree may apply for
the second degree before completing one-half of their degree requirements.
Applicants submit either GRE or GMAT test scores in support of their
applications. Admission to the MBA requires two years full-time professional
work experience. Admission to the residential M.H.S.A. does not require experience,
although relevant experience is considered in the admission decision.
The residential M.H.S.A. assumes students will carry full-time class loads.
The Dual M.H.S.A./MBA is co-directed by the Director of the M.H.S.A. residential
program and the Director of Graduate Programs for the SOM. Students will
have an advisor in each school.
Curriculum
The courses taught for the M.H.S.A. are tailored to the health care industry,
while MBA courses generalize to a broader range of business and industry.
For two areas of study -- organizational behavior and information systems – dual M.H.S.A./MBA students may choose either the
relevant M.H.S.A. course or the MBA course. Students take M.H.S.A. courses in
the areas of law, operations, managerial accounting, advanced finance and health economics;
and take MBA courses in the areas of advanced statistics, financial accounting,
marketing, and finance. The rest of the curriculum includes courses offered
solely by the SOM (e.g. strategy, strategic innovation), or solely by
the SPH (e.g. health services systems, epidemiology).
Depending upon where students choose to take their three “either-or” courses,
the curriculum allows from one to four MBA elective courses, and from
zero to three M.H.S.A. elective courses. To earn both degrees, students must
complete at least 36 credits from the SOM and 45 credits from the SPH
(note that 4 of the 45 SPH credits are for basic statistics, which is
an admission prerequisite for the MBA). |
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