Healthcare Management

The College of Staten Island offers a program leading to the degree of Master of Science in Healthcare Management -- an enormously important and rapidly growing business sector. The degree provides specialized content for those working in health care, and those who wish to enter the healthcare industry. It is designed for new graduates and mid-career professionals to acquire in-depth training in the area of management focused on the needs of healthcare providers. We welcome students from a range of disciplines such as dentistry, gerontology, medicine, nursing, nutrition, occupational and physical therapies, pharmacy, and social work as well as students who are non-clinical professionals working in health care or who have an interest in working in the healthcare industry. The MS in Healthcare Management is designed to 1) help newly promoted and rising healthcare professionals to make an effective transition from clinical and technical roles into broader managerial roles, and 2) enable people with an educational or professional background in business to apply business knowledge to the healthcare industry.

The MS in Healthcare Management is designed to: 

1. help newly promoted and rising healthcare professionals to make an effective transition from clinical and technical roles into broader managerial roles, and  

2. enable people with an educational or professional background in business to apply business knowledge to the healthcare industry. 

Graduates of the Master’s degree program in Healthcare Management will be able to:

• Apply business knowledge to the healthcare industry

• Demonstrate leadership intelligence

• Apply ethical standards to management decisions

• Communicate clearly and work effectively in a pluralistic group setting

Graduate Course Double Counting Policy

Undergraduate students majoring in Accounting, Business, or Economics at the College of Staten Island and satisfying the following criteria may be granted permission to take up to three graduate courses at undergraduate tuition to be counted towards their bachelor’s degree. These graduate courses may be used only to substitute for 400-level courses that satisfy elective requirements for the undergraduate major. All graduate courses at the 600-level in the Healthcare Management program are eligible. This allows students to earn two degrees, the bachelor’s and the master’s degrees in five years.

Criteria:

• Current enrollment in the bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, or Economics at the College of Staten Island and completion of three years of study with 90 or more earned credits. 

• Cumulative GPA 3.3 or above.

• Two letters of recommendation, at least one from a full-time College of Staten Island Business School faculty under whom the applicant has studied. 

• Permission from the course instructor, the coordinator of the graduate program, and the department chairperson.

• Application for admission and conditional acceptance into the Healthcare Management graduate program.