Welcome - About the FAU Health Admin Program

You have made it this far in your search for master’s programs so I will assume you already have a good idea of employment prospects in the healthcare industry.  Therefore you will be spared data on the number of workers, nationwide, in various sectors and the U.S. Dept. of Labor’s estimates of how many more jobs will be available in the future.

What I will say about the field is:

1.  Healthcare is chock full of educated people, education is expected and appreciated.  From janitors to CEOs, from nurses’ aides to brain surgeons, virtually everyone has undergone, and continues to undergo, some degree of specialized training.  That makes it a challenging vocation and puts a premium on your education.

2.  Healthcare is highly regulated.  You must be adept at interpreting regulations to continually changing events and circumstances.

3.  Healthcare continually changes.  Those regulations and ever continuing advances in procedures and technology make it imperative you be able to modify your business model at the drop of a hat.

4.  Healthcare pays well.  You won’t get rich, but you will live well and, if you can adapt to those continuing changes, you will enjoy employment stability.

5.  Healthcare makes a difference in peoples’ lives in a way no other profession can.

A career in healthcare management is hard, often stressful, and gratifying; what’s not to like?  I hope to see you in class.

Bob Hays,

Director, Health Administration Programs

College of Business, Florida Atlantic University

1.  All of our core courses are taught by full time faculty.  To be honest, our course in Health Law is taught by a lawyer who currently practices health law but then it is a very specialized field.

2.  Our MHA electives are taught by:  the former CEO of a large health system in the northeast; a former professor in a prestigious Midwestern university and author of a textbook on operations management in healthcare; and, a physician of 35 years who retired, went back to school and earned a law degree.

3.  We are part of the College of Business rather than an appendage of a School of Health Sciences.  Treating and caring for patients is a science (and part art), managing an organization in which patients are treated and cared for is a business (and part art).  The twain must meet, but they should live in different houses.  Health management at FAU is not the odd man out; we are one with the purpose of the college.

4.  As part of the FAU College of Business we are fully accredited by the AACSB, one of only about 450 colleges of business in the US to be so rated.

5.  And, let’s be practical, we are inexpensive.  We are part of the State of Florida University System, and as such, for Florida residents, one of the best bargains in the country.