Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA): Concentration in Healthcare Management

Combining courses in management, finance and communications with a specialized healthcare track, CTU’s Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Healthcare Management focuses on building the skills that can help a person learn how to oversee daily functions. You can learn proven principles for managing operations, directing human resource policy and enacting change, while fortifying your leadership skills. Additionally, you can learn innovative strategies in marketing, e-business, data management and informatics that you can readily apply to your organization.

To maximize your experience, CTU covers current legal, ethical and regulatory issues, as well as global communications.

Colorado Technical University's Bachelor's Degree Completion Program is designed to enable completion of a Bachelor's degree in as little as 17 months.*

Successful completion of the BSBA with a concentration in Healthcare Management can provide students with an applicable foundation of relevant qualifications, including how to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of the basic functional areas of management.
• Assess personal leadership style and adapt to needs of situations, employees and co-workers.
• Demonstrate the critical skills necessary to solve business problems.
• Apply appropriate concepts and principles of finance, accounting and statistics to make effective decisions.
• Understand the impact a global and electronic marketplace has on management practices, human resources and strategic decision-making.
• Understand the legal and global environments in which businesses operate.
• Act as a change agent to assist organizations, individuals and teams to adapt successfully to continuous change.
• Employ tools, principles and techniques of continuous process improvement in order to achieve quality and excellence in the workplace.
• Participate as a collaborative solution finder in a team environment.
• Demonstrate the ability to work comfortably and effectively in multicultural teams.
• Demonstrate a sense of responsibility for one’s own learning and the ability to assess and continuously improve.
• Demonstrate the application of management information systems including spreadsheets and database applications.
• Develop the skills to address healthcare related issues.
• Learn the functional aspects of the healthcare field.
• Develop a generalist foundation that emphasizes the application of critical thinking skills to healthcare related issues.
• Apply the management, legal and ethical issues of diversity, affirmative action, employee and labor relations to the design of organizational decision models and policies.
• Focus on skills specific to managing the healthcare environment.
• Human resource and financial management skills needed for planning and coordinating health services are addressed, as well as regulatory issues governing the field.

Core Courses

Lower Level

• Accounting I
• Macroeconomics
• Microeconomics
• Introductory Human Resource Management
• Principles of Business
• Introduction to Business Law
• Management Fundamentals
• Fundamentals of Marketing
• Introduction to Project Management
• Personal Finance Concepts

Upper Level

• Managerial Accounting Practices
• Introduction to Corporate Finance
• Managing Human Resources
• Organizational Change
• E-Business
• International Business Communications
• Statistics: Data-Driven Decision Making
• Organizational Behavior Principles
• Operations Management Principles
• International Business Practices
• The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
• Business Strategy
• Marketing and the Virtual Marketplace
• Ethics: The Hallmark of Leaders at All Levels

Concentration courses in this program are focused on providing an industry-current overview of the healthcare industry. For example:

• In The Healthcare Organization, students may explore the organizational structure of healthcare institutions and healthcare delivery as they examine the interrelatedness of psychological, social, cultural and political factors in healthcare delivery, organizational culture and healthcare management.
• In Management Principles in Healthcare, the coursework emphasizes planning in areas such as risk assessment, technology, information systems, staffing requirements, unique needs of specialized providers and resource allocation.
• In Fiscal Management in Healthcare Services, students are introduced to concepts and techniques of managerial accounting for general health services managers, including fiscal planning and performance, budgeting, control and reporting.

Other concentration courses in this program include:

• The Health Care Industry
• Current Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues in Healthcare
• Legal Issues in Human Resource Management

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