Health Care Administration Graduate Certificate

Program Outcomes:

Students will be able to

• manage people and processes in health care organizations by assessing, developing and applying leadership styles in real-world situations.
• drive health care strategy and improvement by leveraging knowledge of policies, economics, finance and systems to implement strategic enhancements in an organization.
• confirm that required policies are applied to health care organizations by exploring areas of policy, law and ethics, management ideas, theories and case studies in health care.
• apply principles of economics to manage finances in a health care organization by leveraging knowledge in financial and insurance information.
• develop a foundation to optimize information systems or human resource administration in a health care organization by choosing one of the following electives:
  • Health Informatics
  • Human Resources Administration in Heath Care

Admission Criteria:

To be eligible to apply to graduate certificate programs, you must:

• have an undergraduate degree from a regionally accredited institution.
• have an undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or higher (waivers can be granted based on professional work experience and other factors).

How to apply:

• Complete the application via the online portal
• Submit a $25 nonrefundable application fee. (Waived for Elizabethtown College graduates).
• Upload your current resume.
• Request official transcripts from all undergraduate institutions attended.
• Upload a 1-2 page essay addressing your:
  • motivation for pursuing the graduate certificate
  • statement of professional goals
  • goals for the application of the graduate certificate to your professional life

Those students who successfully complete a graduate certificate and wish to pursue a full master’s degree program will benefit from an abbreviated admission process (see below). Degree-seeking students must meet all of the established criteria for admission into their desired master’s degree program.

Advance to Stacked Graduate Certificate/Degree

After successfully completing their primary graduate certificate, students may complete the Advance in Graduate Certificate or Degree form in the JayWeb student portal to apply to a future graduate certificate or graduate degree. Additional materials may be required, depending on the program of interest.