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Healthcare MBA Online

The George Washington University Healthcare MBA online prepares ambitious and visionary healthcare providers with advanced knowledge and skills to make sound business decisions unique to the healthcare environment. Get the tools for finding real solutions and propel yourself to the forefront of innovation and positive change in the healthcare industry.

The GW Healthcare MBA has business and healthcare at its core. It is delivered 100% online and taught by world-renowned faculty who bring both healthcare and business experience.

This program is an excellent way to expand your skill set beyond your technical know-how of healthcare systems or healthcare delivery.

You can grow your abilities as a manager, supervisor, executive, or policymaker. The program is designed to fit the busy schedule of working professionals just like you.

Our candidates are healthcare professionals seeking success in the boardroom, an entrepreneurial venture or policy in both the private and non-profit sectors. The GW Healthcare MBA recognizes this diversity and includes a curriculum that is practical for a broad range of careers.

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At a Glance

Completely Online: Earn the premier degree of its kind 100% online. Our Healthcare MBA has helped advance business leaders for more than 15 years. It’s designed to be flexible and provide convenient course options that work with your busy schedule.

Comprehensive & Customizable: Build your personalized curriculum from an array of robust options. Choose electives from our distinguished schools in business, health sciences, public health, law and more. Your elective courses can also serve to add a graduate certificate to your MBA.

Diverse Network: Join a diverse network of professionals, including health directors, doctors, nurses, consultants and more. The majority of our graduates report more than 10 years of health industry experience. Your online MBA also provides study abroad opportunities.

Prestigious & Military Friendly: Earn a distinguished online Healthcare MBA from one of the best business schools in the nation, as consistently ranked by Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal and Forbes. It’s also a top option for active military members and veterans.

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Curriculum

The GW Healthcare MBA presents effective business and management strategies and applies them to healthcare environments, connecting these new concepts with your existing experience. The program is 46.5 credit hours and consists of 31.5 credit hours of core courses, 3 credits hours in technology electives, with the remaining 12 credit hours reserved for healthcare-focused elective courses. Students have up to five years to complete all degree requirements.

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Core Courses

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6205: Business Essentials for Dynamic Markets | 1.5 Credits
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Introduction to the foundations of business. Business models and design, dynamic capabilities, and strategy. Identify opportunities, lead individuals, groups, virtual teams, and organizations effectively.
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6240: Competition in the Global Economy | 3 Credits
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Analysis of political risk using insights from practice and political science. Introduces international macroeconomics, geopolitics, frameworks for analyzing firm-level investment, and trade decisions. Overview of the global business environment.
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6211: Financial Accounting | 3 Credits
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Basic concepts and methods used in financial reporting for understanding their content, context, and related processes. Income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Detailed accounting procedures, calculations, and choices.
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6250: Technology for Business in DC | 1.5 Credits
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Real-world applications and management of technology such as business-IT alignment, digital transformation, strategic IT, cloud outsourcing, digital platform strategy and big data analytics. Students work on projects from DC metro area organization.
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6213: Accounting for Internal Decision Making* | 1.5 Credits
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Effective use of internal generation, communication and interpretation of information for both operational and strategic decision-making purposes. Restricted to students in the MBA program.
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6263: Organizations and Human Capital | 3 Credits
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Formal and informal organizational dynamics related to leading and managing human capital. Motivation and compensation, managing diversity, power and employee relations, organizational culture and change, leadership and decision making, and staffing and performance management. Restricted to MBA students.
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6224: Decision Making & Data Analysis | 3 Credits
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Elements of decision making that enable managers to characterize their strengths, assess the competition, and forecast the future. Deterministic and probabilistic decision models. Analytical approaches involving uncertainty, multiple objectives, and multiple stakeholders. Probability concepts are used to develop and apply statistical models, with both exploratory and inferential statistical techniques used, including sampling, estimation, and hypothesis testing.
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6274: Marketing | 3 Credits
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Marketing as an organizational function creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers, while managing customer relationships in ways that benefit both the organization and its stakeholders. Formulation and implementation of the elements of marketing strategy through the application of concepts of marketing, analytic perspectives, and decision tools.
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6223: Operations Management* | 1.5 Credits
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Concepts and techniques related to manufacturing and service operations. Process mapping, capacity analysis, production control, quality management, and supply chains. Integration of operations with a firm’s overall business strategy as a powerful competitive weapon.
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6289: Business Ethics and Public Policy | 3 Credits
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Political, legal, social, economic, and ethical forces acting upon business. Interaction of the market system and public policy process in the development of law and regulation.
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6235: Finance* | 3 Credits
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Financial management examined through financial analyses, fund sources, investing, capital planning/budgeting, dividend policy, and working capital management. Money and capital markets, primary and secondary markets, and cash and futures markets.
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6288: Strategic Management* | 3 Credits
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An integrative approach to strategic management; general manager’s perspective, strategy formulation, implementation of strategy and policy, and evaluation and control of strategy in various types of organizations.
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6242: Microeconomics for the World Economy | 1.5 Credits
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The economics of supply and demand in product markets. Theory of the firm (production and cost structure) and its competitive environment (perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, and monopolistic competition)
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ANALYTICS AND TECHNOLOGY SELECTIVES:

Students will complete three one-credit hour technology related courses.

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HEALTH CARE-FOCUSED ELECTIVES:

Health care-focused electives will be chosen from the School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS). Students may petition to have up to 12 credits of GW graduate-level health care-focused courses outside of SMHS applied to their MBA health care-focused elective requirements. This maximum includes approved transfer credit (up to 6 credits) and graduate-level courses completed at GW but outside the GWSB and SMHS. Availability of electives may vary by term.

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ELECTIVE EXAMPLES:

Credit Hours 12.0

It is expected that students will complete their core course requirements prior to starting the elective portion of their program.

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CERTIFICATION OPTIONS:

In addition, students may choose to complete one of seven certificates offered by the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. All courses required for the certificates may be applied toward the Health Care MBA health care-focused and/or general elective requirements.

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Admission Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from a college or university in the United States that is accredited by one of the six regional accrediting bodies. If you completed your degree outside the United States, it must be the equivalent of a four-year United States bachelor’s degree. If you have any questions, please contact your advisor.

At least two years of full-time, post- undergraduate professional experience in the healthcare field is strongly preferred. However, GW does not have a minimum work experience requirement for admission.

Applicants who have not completed a degree in a TOEFL exempt country must submit one of the following: an official TOEFL score of at least 100 (internet-based test) or 600 (paper-based test), or an official IELTS score of 7.0 with no individual band score below 6.0. Test date must be within the past two years. Scores are not required for U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents and U.S. board-certified physicians.

Your application will only be submitted for review through a member of the Admissions Team.

The completed application file must include:

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Rankings and Accreditation

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Military Friendly

For nine years in a row, the George Washington University has been distinguished as “Military Friendly” by G.I. Jobs and “Best for Vets” by Military Times Edge. We’re also a proud participant in the Yellow Ribbon Program.

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AACSB Accredited

The George Washington University School of Business is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International). AACSB ensures that quality management education is maintained around the world through a rigorous accreditation process.

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MSCHE Accredited

Located in Washington, D.C., the George Washington University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE). The commission examines institutions to determine that educational programs maintain and promote the highest standards as part of the accreditation process.

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U.S. News & World Report
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Best Online MBA Programs

U.S. News & World Report ranks the George Washington University School of Business #55 for Best Online MBA Programs and #43 for Best Online MBA Programs for Veterans in 2025.

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Call 866-477-0363 or schedule an appointment with an advisor to learn more about the George Washington University’s online Healthcare MBA program.