Become a compassionate healthcare leader

Grow your management and leadership skills

With Webster's Master of Health Administration—accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP)—you'll learn from practitioner professors who are current and former leaders of healthcare organizations and gain professional experience through a unique capstone project. Earn your degree in as few as 16 months. Graduate ready to:

• Explain healthcare leadership styles and demonstrate effective communication skills that are required in managing effective teams and in predicting human behavior in an organization.
• Apply health care management skills in problem solving, decision making, planning, delegating and managing time.
• Incorporate strategic thinking to set priorities, focus energy and resources, and strengthen operations, in order to ensure that employees and other stakeholders are working toward common goals, and to operationalize healthcare organization's mission and vision.

Why a Master of Health Administration from Webster?

Make a difference in healthcare

Summon your natural abilities and gain knowledge to be the kind of compassionate leader who is in high demand and who motivates and inspires others. This program is ideal for:

• Mid-level employees seeking a leadership role within their organization
• Professionals looking to transition and pursue a new career

Turn potential into reality

Through Webster's Master of Health Administration, you'll gain the academic and professional preparation needed to achieve upward career mobility in the various healthcare sectors, mainly in health systems, hospitals and related healthcare organizations.

• Expand your skills in community engagement, management and strategy
• Prepare to guide organizations toward greater efficiency, effectiveness and patient-focused care
• Gain professional experience with a unique capstone project

Benefit from a curriculum focused on emerging trends in healthcare

You must complete 42 hours to graduate with your Master of Health Administration.

Designed for your busy life

Don’t enter a classroom; experience a live virtual interaction every week with your professor and classmates. Complete your MHA 100% online through a combination of online synchronized two-hour weekly live virtual class and online asynchronized readings, learning activities, and assignments.

With no previous classes or GRE required, all you need to bring is your passion for healthcare.

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Achieve your personal and professional goals

We’re here to help

Webster is committed to your success, and you'll never be alone as you pursue your Master of Health Administration.

• Enrollment coaches help you navigate the application, financial aid and enrollment process so you can start your classes with confidence.
• Faculty members provide personalized support, thanks to Webster's intentionally small classes.
• Tutors and other academic support staff can help you tackle particularly tough assignments and classes.
• A global education broadens your perspective and gives you both the knowledge and experience to thrive, no matter where you are.

An education nationally recognized for quality

Earn your ACBSP-accredited Master of Health Administration from Webster, a private, non-profit university accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and ranked #16 in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” list in the Midwest Regional University category.

Professors. Professionals. Mentors.

Learn from faculty members who work as senior executives in hospitals, insurance companies and healthcare consulting firms. Our professors serve as mentors eager to support your career goals and connect you to opportunities.