PhD IN HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
The PhD in Health Administration prepares students to conduct health services research and/or teach at a university level. The program of study is designed around the interests of the individual, taking previous academic training and professional experience into account. Emphasis in the program is in research methods, statistics, and advanced concepts in health policy and management.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
- Applicants should have a Master's degree in Health Administration, Business Administration, Public Health, or Public Administration. Exceptions to this will be considered by petition to the faculty, which must approve by a majority vote. A strong student may be admitted with only a Bachelor's degree, but will be required to complete all requirements for the MPH degree before beginning the doctoral program.
- Applicants are expected to have taken graduate level courses in health care finance, statistics, organizational behavior, health economics, and epidemiology. An admitted student with deficiencies in any of these areas must take courses to make them up. A student with three or more deficiency areas will be given a conditional admission, contingent upon making up the deficiencies. Courses taken to make up deficiencies do not count towards the degree program. .
- The applicant must have earned a 3.0 grade point average (based on a 4.0 scale) in previous graduate course work.
- Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or GMAT scores must be submitted.
- Foreign applicants whose native language is not English must submit the results of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) scores. If prior academic experience in the U.S. illustrates that the student is proficient in English, this requirement may be waived.
- Three letters of recommendations must be submitted, from persons who can reflect upon the applicant's prior academic and professional performance.
- The applicant must provide a career goal statement and a current curriculum vita with the application.
- An interview with the departmental faculty is highly recommended.
ADMISSIONS:
Apply to the PhD in Health Administration program online through the Schools of Public Health Application Service (SOPHAS). Please also send Sonja Snowdon an e-mail with your contact information.
SAMPLE CURRICULUM:
(subject to change)
Sutdents in the PhD program must complete 61 semester credit hours. It is strongly recommended that students begin their studies in the fall semester.
| Curriculum Requirements (61 hours) |
| Advanced Topics In Health Policy & Management (6 hours) |
| HSPM 845 - Advanced Topics In Health Policy & Management I |
| HSPM 846 - Advanced Topics In Health Policy & Management II |
| History of Public Health & Health Politics (6 hours) |
| HSPM 710 - History of Public Health |
| HSPM 711 - Health Politics |
| Statistics & Research Methods (6 hours) |
| BIOS 757 - Intermediate Biometrics |
| HSPM 719 - Health Services Research Methods |
| Statistics & Research Methods Cognate (12 hours) |
| After completing BIOS 757 and HSPM 719 |
| Concentration (15 hours) |
| Designed by student |
| Dissertation (12 hours) |
| HSPM 899 - Dissertation/Project |
| Doctoral Seminar (4 hours) |
| HSPM 800 - Doctoral Seminar |
CONTACT:
For further information about this program, please contact Mitchell Taylor, phone: (803)777-1627.