Master of Health Administration

The Master of Health Administration will help you develop the skills and experience you need to lead and manage projects, health agencies, services and programs. We'll prepare you to advance into leadership and management in the public and private sectors in general management and in specialist roles in areas such as project management, quality management and the management of particular health professions.

Our teaching staff have clinical qualifications in areas such as medicine, physiotherapy, nursing, organisational psychology and statistics, and in health administration research. They've worked in senior healthcare management roles in Australia and overseas, with organisations such as the Toronto Hospital (Canada), Inner and Eastern Healthcare Network (Melbourne) and various consulting firms, as well as having extensive governance experience.

The range of electives allows you to further explore health economics and finance, health law and ethics, and process redesign.

The subject timetable is designed to give you the flexibility you need to successfully balance study with your other commitments: the combination of evening, block and online study modes mean that you can choose when and how you study.

HM002CI is the traditional Master of Health Administration with the choice of face-to-face or online study. HM002O is the fully online version.

The qualification awarded on graduation is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) as Level 9 - Masters Degree.

This course is designed to advance your career in healthcare management and will prepare you for a range of senior management roles in the public and private sectors.

Our graduates have taken on roles in prominent healthcare organisations including Cancer Council Victoria, Northern Health, Western Health, Cabrini Health, Australian Red Cross Blood Service and Beijing Cancer Hospital.

Professional recognition

The Master of Health Administration is accredited by the Australasian College of Health Service Management (ACHSM). Graduates of the Master of Health Administration may apply for membership with the ACHSM. Membership may be subject to additional or ongoing requirements beyond the completion of the degree. Please contact the relevant professional body for details. Depending on subject choice, the Master of Health Administration is recognised by the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA) as providing the theoretical underpinning to the experiential components of the Fellowship Training Program in medical administration.

Please note, the following course structure is indicative and subject to change depending on your course location, offer year or how you tailor your course with specialisations, majors, minors and electives. Structures for the following year are not normally finalised until October, so the sample provided is based on the most recently approved structure.

To qualify for the award of Master of Health Administration, students must complete a total of 240 credit points across 2 years.

Year 1

Year 1 requires the completion of 120 credit points

including:

• 120 credit points from chosen Core

Year 2

Year 2 requires the completion of 120 credit points

including:

• 60 credit points from chosen Specialisation
• 60 credit points from chosen Electives

This is a StudyFlex course

Whether your course is considered on campus, online or a mix of both, a StudyFlex course provides:

• at least one-third of its subjects on campus or online; and/or
• at least two StudyFlex majors - that is two eight-subject sequences that offer at least half of their subjects on campus or online.

Specialisations

A specialisation is a sequence of related subjects studied in your course. In some courses, you need to complete at least one specialisation to attain your degree.

Students to select one specialisation

• Advanced practice StudyFlex
• Ageing strategy and policy StudyFlex
• Applied research StudyFlex
• Data for decision making StudyFlex
• Digital health StudyFlex
• Health promotion StudyFlex
• Health strategy and policy StudyFlex
• International development StudyFlex
• Public Health StudyFlex