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Executive MHA Course Sequence

Starting with the Fall 2024 cohort, the Executive Track will have a mandatory orientation program prior to the first day of classes, and it will be held in College Station.

 

The 15 courses are taught in the following lockstep sequence, with no electives and no courses allowed to be taken out of sequence.

Courses

Year 1

 

Fall

PHPM 601: Foundations of Population and Public Health (7 weeks)

 

PHPM 606: Health Systems Management (7 weeks)

 

PHPM 623: Health Care Financial Management (15 weeks)

Spring

PHPM 614: Strategic Planning and Marketing (7 weeks)

 

PHPM 617: Quality and Process Improvement (7 weeks)

 

PHPM 633: Health Law and Ethics (15 weeks)

Summer

PHPM 616: Management of Human Resources (10 weeks)

 

PHPM 603: Managing Health Care Data and Information (5 weeks)

 

PHPM 681: Seminar* (5 weeks)

Year 2

 

Fall 

PHPM 630: Operations Management (7 weeks)

 

PHPM 661: Introduction to Health Economics (7 weeks)

 

PHPM 636: Project Management (15 weeks)

Spring

PHPM 640: Health Policy and Politics* (7 weeks)

 

PHPM 653: Health Insurance and Managed Care (7 weeks)

 

PHPM 680: Health Systems Leadership (Capstone, 15 weeks)

 

*Immersion course