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Strayer BBA, Health Services Administration**

In your Strayer online BBA in Health Services Administration concentration, you'll explore the forces and trends affecting the U.S. healthcare industry.  Your coursework will guide you to apply business strategies and tools to health services management, for a positive impact on healthcare management firms, hospitals, clinics, and long-term facilities.  You'll work on problem-solving strategies to address critical factors such as law, policy, ethics, quality, and cost.

As part of this concentration, you'll learn how to apply management and technical skills to the administration of healthcare systems and organizations.  In addition, you'll develop tools to analyze current administrative and management challenges in health service organizations and recommend solutions that incorporate strategic use of resources.

Maintaining effective services in the field of healthcare is essential to the well-being of individuals and society as a whole.  Our online health services administration concentration can provide you with a background that can help you take on a role in oversight and management within a healthcare organization.

**The Health Services Administration concentration is not available in Maryland campuses.  This concentration is offered online only to students in Maryland.

Sample of core courses

  • Introduction to Business
  • Effective Communication Skills
  • Management Concepts
  • Business and Society
  • Principles of Marketing

Concentration courses

  • Health Services Organization Management
  • Health Services Marketing
  • Health Information Systems
  • Healthcare Human Resource Management
  • Healthcare Policy and Law

Employment settings to explore*

  • General medical and surgical hospitals
  • Insurance carriers
  • Colleges, universities, and professional schools
  • Nursing care facilities
  • Offices of physicians

Job titles/positions to explore*

  • Clinic administrator
  • Health care administrator
  • Health care billing manager
  • Health care coordinator
  • Health care management consultant
  • Health care policy analyst
  • Health claims examiner
  • Hospital administration

*These are examples intended to serve as a general guide. Some positions may prefer or even require previous experience, licensure, certifications, and/or other designations along with a degree. Because many factors determine what position an individual may attain, Strayer cannot guarantee that a graduate will secure any specific job title, a promotion, salary increase, or other career outcome. We encourage you to research requirements for your job target and career goals.

Apply new skills

  • Learn how to apply management and technical skills to the administration of health care systems and organizations.
  • Develop tools to analyze current administrative and management challenges in health service organizations.
  • Recommend solutions that incorporate strategic use of resources.
  • Comprehend the features of the U.S. health care system and how policy and law shape organizations that provide health services.

Why BBA?

The Bachelor of Business Administration* prepares graduates to pursue a wide range of managerial positions in business, government, and non-profit organizations. Business Administration students can acquire fundamental, practical and professional skills in all phases of business including decisionmaking and problem-solving capabilities. The program also provides a strong liberal arts component that develops communication skills, information literacy, abstract thinking and critical analysis while fostering historical, political and social awareness.

The Bachelor of Business Administration program offers concentrations that enable students to tailor their degrees to their career and educational goals. Concentrations are available  in:

Accounting****

Acquisition and Contract Management

Entrepreneurship

Finance

Health Services Administration***

Hospitality and Tourism Management**

Human Resource Management

Joe Gibbs Performance Management

Management

Marketing

Project Management

Retail Management

Social Media Marketing*****

*Arkansas, Maryland, and New Jersey students enrolled in the Bachelor of Business

Administration program must follow the program requirements as set forth in the state-specific sections of the catalog.

**Hospitality and Tourism Management Concentration is not available in Arkansas or Delaware.

***Health Services Administration is not available in Maryland campuses. This concentration is offered online only to students in Maryland.

****Accounting Concentration is not available in Arkansas.

*****The Social Media Marketing Concentration is not yet available in North Carolina.

******This offer is not available to: (a) continuing students; (b) employees of Strategic Education, Inc. And its subsidiaries, and family members residing in the same household of such employees; or (c) students enrolled through Strayer@Work or Degrees@Work. For all other students, laptop available only to Strayer University students who: (1) are a new or readmitted student in a Strayer University bachelor’s-level program; (2) have at least six courses to complete in their program; and (3) enroll for classes starting fall 2019 quarter or later. Students must complete three of their first four quarters of enrollment, or return the laptop to avoid a $350 charge. This offer is subject to change at any time. Only one laptop will be provided per student. In the event the laptop is damaged, lost, stolen, or incapacitated, strayer will not provide a replacement. All returns subject to return policy. Complete details are available in the bachelor’s laptop agreement or the bachelor’s laptop Verizon and Verizon Wireless loaner agreement, as applicable. Students receiving tuition assistance from Verizon or Verizon Wireless may only borrow and use a laptop subject to the terms of the bachelor’s laptop Verizon and Verizon Wireless loaner agreement. Limitations for other corporate-sponsored programs may also apply. Please contact your home campus or strayer online for more information.

Why Strayer?

  • Online and Campus options
  • 13 Concentrations
  • Start a bachelor's and receive your Strayer laptop******
  • Transfer up to 28 classes of previous coursework toward your degree
  • Credit for Work and Life Experience: Challenge Exams and Portfolio Review options (fees apply)
  • Strayer Studios Documentary-Style Video Content
  • Support along the way: An Admissions Officer will guide you through the Admissions process and then a Student Services Coach will help you navigate from your first quarter through to graduation