As part of its Health Administration program, UMT offers the Bachelor of Health Administration (BHA) degree. The main objective of the BHA is to provide a coherent curriculum of studies that will result in students being able to demonstrate their:

• Understanding of foundation concepts and advanced topics in health administration and related disciplines.
• Understanding of management theory and practice, especially as applied to health administration.
• Ability to conduct health information searches using up-to-date information technology.
• Knowledge of general education topics consistent with graduates of bachelor degree programs, including knowledge of English composition and technical writing, history and world civilizations, economics, psychology, sociology, government, mathematics, and statistics.
• Ability to understand basic statistics and research methods and to apply this knowledge as an informed consumer of research in health administration.

A maximum of 90 credit-hours may be transferred toward the degree and of these, up to 30 may be for relevant professional and work experience.

Curriculum

The BHA degree requires completion of a total of 120 credit-hours of instruction. The curriculum is divided into three areas:

• Core courses (30 credit-hours)
• BHA Electives (60 credit-hours)
• General Education Electives (30 credit-hours)

The core courses address the fundamental topics that are relevant to health administration, including health services, healthcare law and ethics, epidemiology and community health, information technology for healthcare, health organization management, healthcare management, health services marketing, managed care, long-term care management and health politics and policy. BHA Electives provide more in-depth coverage in the management discipline to meet the needs and interests of students. Within the required 120 credit-hours, a student must also complete at least 30 credit-hours in General Education to receive a BHA degree

BHA Core Courses

HA 100. Introduction to Health Services
HA 102. Introduction to Healthcare Law and Ethics
HA 104. Epidemiology and Community Health
HA 120. Information Technology for Health Professions
HA 130. Healthcare Organization Management
HA 140. Health Services Marketing
HA 150. Healthcare Management
HA 151. Managed Healthcare
HA 152. Long-Term Care Management
HA 199. Health Politics and Policy

BHA Electives

HA 101. Essential Medical Terminology^$
FIN 101. Finance Management
MGT 115. Operation management
MGT 132. Human Resources Management
MGT 133. Organizational Communications*
MGT 150. Project Management
STAT 100. Basic Statistics*
STAT 150. Research Methods
COMM 100. Business Communications*
PSY 100. Psychology*

* Earns general education credit.

^$ HA101 is mandatory for students who neither have prior work experience in the field of Health Administration nor have taken similar course prior to enrolling in this program.