The George Washington University Master of Health Administration | Online

Earn Your Master of Health Administration From a No. 9 Best Health Care Management Program in the U.S.

Graduate with your MHA in as few as 24 months, on a full- or part-time basis.

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Go Further With an MHA From GWSPH

Two Start Dates

January and September

#12

Best public health school

11,460+

Milken Institute SPH alumni

15:1

Student-to-faculty ratio

Join Our CAHME-Accredited Program

MHA@GW is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME).

Career Opportunities in a Field Projected to Grow 29% by 2033

A master’s in health administration enables health care professionals to gain the skills they need to elevate their current clinical or administrative leadership position. Earning an MHA prepares you to pursue a number of career paths in directorial and managerial positions, such as:

Clinical Administration

C-Suite Executive

Health Care Planning and Management

Advance Your Leadership in Health Care

MHA@GW features a multidisciplinary curriculum designed to educate health care professionals seeking to improve health care structures across the globe.

Optimize health care systems and operations

Analyze health care economics and markets

Develop financial strategies in health care

Shape health care policy and regulation

Three Immersions

Two on campus in D.C. and one at a health organization

Online Since 2014

One of the earliest online MHA’s

Work Experience Required

At least three years or two years in health care

Faculty Spotlight

The coursework that students complete in the MHA program is designed by expert faculty in D.C. — the heart of health policy.

Ricky D. Allen, Ph.D., MHA, B.S.

Adjunct Professor

Dr. Allen is an Adjunct Professor of Health Policy and Management at GWSPH. His teaching and workplace interests are focused on leadership, ethics, health care administration, public health and health care policy, operational performance and examining structural and interpersonal dynamics which are key to transforming organizations into workplaces that proactively establishes itself as a place that meets its mission while simultaneously valuing and developing its workforce.

Guenevere Burke, M.D., M.B.A

Associate Professor

Dr. Burke is executive director and co-founder of the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity at the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity in the Department of Health Policy and Management at GW. Dr. Burke is an associate professor of emergency medicine, health policy and management at GW. She is passionate about bringing people together to advance innovative solutions to complex problems, and has served on boards and committees of organizations and educational initiatives including the Atlantic Institute at Oxford University and Care Lab.

Candice Chen

Associate Professor

Dr. Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, focused on health workforce, primary care and health professions and graduate medical education research and policy. She has both national and global expertise. Her research includes examination of the role of medical schools in addressing high priority workforce needs in primary care, underserved communities, and diversity; the role of graduate medical education in the cost practice patterns of physicians; and the status and challenges faced by medical schools in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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