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Curtin University

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Master of Health Administration

  • Masters (Coursework)

This course equips students with leadership and management skills to address challenges in modern healthcare environments, focusing on quality, safe, and effective care delivery. It is tailored for clinicians, managers, and administrators aiming to improve healthcare systems.

Key details

Degree Type
Masters (Coursework)
Duration
2 years full-time
Course Code
MC-HLADMN, 006110A
Intake Months
Feb, Jul
International Fees
$42,740 per year / $85,480 total

About this course

Overview

Lead the way! Healthcare systems across the world aim to deliver quality, safe and effective care to the population. However, many systems face challenges of limited resources, changing healthcare needs and rapidly advancing technology. Our postgraduate courses in health administration will develop the practical leadership and management skills needed to address challenging issues in these changing healthcare environments, and to manage relationships with other service providers, consumers and policymakers.

This course will equip you with the skills and knowledge needed to navigate the complexity of delivering and planning for services in a modern healthcare environment.

It is designed for clinicians, managers and administrators who want to deliver high quality, safe and effective healthcare.

It is possible to exit this course with a Graduate Certificate in Health Administration or a Graduate Diploma in Health Administration once you have completed certain units.

Entry requirements

Admission criteria

What you need in order to get into this course. There are different pathway options depending on your level of work and education experience.

Specifically, a Bachelor degree from a recognised tertiary institution in a field relevant to health management, health administration, business administration of healthcare organisation, clinical governance, medical administration, human resource management for health, health information management, health financial management, public health and leadership in health policy

AND

work experience equivalent to two years full-time professional or volunteer experience. Work experience may also include equivalent professional experience acquired as part of a degree of four or more years duration (e.g., MBBS, MD)

OR

an undergraduate degree plus an honours or postgraduate degree in a field relevant to health administration, health leadership, health services management, health information management, business administration, public administration, public policy and public health.

English requirements

Curtin requires all applicants to demonstrate proficiency in English. Specific English requirements for this course are outlined in the IELTS table below.

IELTS Academic (International English Language Testing System)

  • Writing: 6
  • Speaking: 6
  • Reading: 6
  • Listening: 6
  • Overall band score: 6.5

What you will learn

What you'll learn

  • Apply advanced disciplinary knowledge and empirical research evidence to effectively lead and manage the delivery of quality services, thereby improving the population's health and well-being at the local, national and global levels.
  • Develop and demonstrate innovative, creative, business-oriented, and entrepreneurial competencies in leading and managing change in healthcare organisations in an ever-changing environment.
  • Demonstrate advanced digital competencies relevant to effective communication and analytic skills in interpreting data, developing innovations to drive organisational change and improvements, evidence-informed practice in decision-making in the health industry, and digitally driven organisational culture and society.
  • Demonstrate critical analytical skills to evaluate health system challenges in a competitive environment and develop resilient, high-performing healthcare organisations that significantly contribute to society's economic and social value.
  • Critically investigate the significant histories and paradigms underpinning current health leadership and management practices and their impact on the health of Indigenous peoples and internationally diverse population groups.
  • Demonstrate exceptional professionalism, the ability to align personal and organisational conduct with legal, ethical and professional standards for leading and managing healthcare organisations, services, consumers, and communities, and a commitment to lifelong learning and improvement.

Credit for prior study or work

Finish your course sooner with credit for your previous study or work experience.

How to apply

Please review information on how to apply for the campus of your choice

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Health Services & Support courses at Curtin University.
86%
Overall satisfaction
83.3%
Skill scale
74.7%
Teaching scale
74.4%
Employed full-time
$75k
Average salary