University of Baltimore

Health Systems Management (M.S.)

also offered at the Universities at Shady Grove in Rockville, Md.

You need advanced skills to manage today's health systems. And you need to develop them on your schedule.

Because leaders in the health systems field must excel as multidisciplinary professionals, you'll delve deeply into management, finance, epidemiology, qualitative methods, organizational behavior, ethics, law and information systems and more.

Your classes meet Saturdays in rapid 10-week sessions, enabling you to balance professional, family and school commitments and to complete your degree in two years.

This program is designed to help you become a highly effective administrator in a health-related environment and is ideal for you if you are:

  • a health-care manager or program administrator in search of professional advancement
  • a nurse or technician needing a master's degree to move up the earnings scale
  • a supervisor seeking the in-depth strategic knowledge that a master's-level education provides.