Health Care Management Certificate

Millicent Nelson, Program Director
(615) 898-2033
M.Nelson@mtsu.edu

The curriculum of the certificate program in Health Care Management is designed to (1) offer support for individuals interested in the health care field who may or may not want to pursue a graduate degree to obtain recognition for a coherent body of graduate-level study in the field of health care management, (2) provide for interdisciplinary collaboration in teaching, learning, and practice, and (3) encourage qualified students to pursue graduate degrees related to their specific field of interest or practice.

Admission Requirements

Admission to the Health Care Management certificate program requires

an earned bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college;
an acceptable grade point average in all college work taken.

Application Procedures

All application materials are to be submitted to the College of Graduate Studies.

Applicant must

submit application with the appropriate application fee (online at www.mtsu.edu/graduate/apply.shtml);
submit official transcripts of all previous college work.

Certificate Requirements

Candidate must

complete 18 hours of graduate courses (see Curriculum section below for specifics);
maintain a cumulative graduate grade point average of 3.00 in courses leading to the certificate.

Curriculum: Health Care Management

Candidate must complete 18 hours in the following course of study:

Required Core (9 hours)

MGMT 6000 - Management and Operations Concepts 3 credit hours
MGMT 6780 - Health Care Management 3 credit hours
SOC 5040 - Health Care Delivery Issues 3 credit hours

Electives (9 hours)

Student should select 9 hours from the following courses in conjunction with career goals and aspirations.

BLAW 6430 - Legal Environment of Management 3 credit hours
ECON 6400 - Economics of Health Care 3 credit hours
HLTH 6510 - The Nation’s Health 3 credit hours
HLTH 6850 - Methods in Epidemiology 3 credit hours
HLTH 6860 - Program Planning for Health Promotion 3 credit hours
MGMT 6750 - Business Ethics 3 credit hours
MKT 6900 - Health Care Marketing 3 credit hours
NURS 5035 - Special Topics 3 credit hours
NURS 5055 - Informatics for the Health Care Professional 3 credit hours
SOC 5020 - Sociology of Aging 3 credit hours
SOC 5030 - Topics in Gerontology 3 credit hours
SOC 5040 - Health Care Delivery Issues 3 credit hours

Program Notes

Students may transfer up to six (6) credit hours of approved coursework into the certificate program. The time limit for use of credit toward the certificate is six years from the date of enrollment in the earliest course applied toward the certificate, including transferred courses.

Candidate must file a Notice of Intent to Graduate form in the College of Graduate Studies within the first two weeks of the semester in which candidate intends to graduate.