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Professional and Continuing Education

Online Master of Community Health Administration
MCHA

Flexible Format

With a 100% online format, the MCHA program at Keck Graduate Institute (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø) relies on highly interactive asynchronous sessions and part-time and full-time enrollment options, giving you more flexibility in your graduate education.

Diversify Your Skills

To match the pace of an evolving healthcare landscape, our program curriculum incorporates a range of courses in community health, healthcare economics, leadership, and more to broaden your industry knowledge and hands-on skills.

Guidance from Healthcare Experts

Receive personalized support from Keck’s renowned faculty, who infuse your learning with real-world insights. Guided by their expertise, you will grow as an aspiring healthcare leader and changemaker.

About ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s Online Master’s in Health Administration Program

Establish yourself as a healthcare leader by earning your online Master of Community Health Administration degree at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. Our 100% online program offers maximum flexibility with engaging asynchronous courses and part-time or full-time enrollment, so you can learn at your own pace and complete your degree in as little as one year.

Through ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s online MCHA program, you:

  • Prepare to work in hospitals and healthcare facilities in underserved and underrepresented communities, improving health outcomes, preventing illness and injury, and detecting treatable medical conditions early.
  • Undergo professional development, which will equip you to work in diverse health service settings, such as community clinics, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), public health departments, NGOs, and more.
  • Build a robust skill set in healthcare problem identification and response, healthcare systems management, healthcare economics, and leadership.

Wherever your career path leads, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø helps you pursue innovation, manage diverse teams, and make a lasting impact on patient care and community health.

What You’ll Learn

Drive healthcare innovation by earning your master’s in community health degree. Our 33-credit curriculum takes a career-oriented approach and equips you with strategic critical thinking skills, practical leadership techniques, and a well-rounded understanding of how the healthcare industry functions. 

Through the training you receive, you graduate ready to manage community-based health initiatives, navigate complex health policy and regulation, leverage data for informed decision-making, and measure health outcomes effectively.

The online MCHA curriculum, comprising stackable certificates, allows you to tailor your graduate degree to your unique healthcare career aspirations. Our graduate certificates focus on relevant areas, including Health Systems, Community Health, Health Economics, and Leadership. Through your coursework, you study infectious and chronic diseases within communities, how to optimize health systems, and how to analyze healthcare economics, including drug pricing, and more.

You can further customize your expertise by choosing elective courses and a capstone project aligned with your interests.

Your time in the master’s in health administration program culminates in a six-credit capstone project. This hands-on project allows you to work directly with a local healthcare organization and bring transformative change that improves patient and community outcomes. As you put your theoretical knowledge into application, you gain a deeper understanding of the complex challenges, practical problem-solving, and how influential well-informed leadership can be in improving community health.

Upon completion of the online master’s in health administration, you gain: 

  • Medically focused business acumen, including advanced healthcare economics, finance, systems management, and medical affairs courses.
  • A comprehensive understanding of how to transform community-based care at the local level.
  • Effective leadership and management skills to enhance collaboration and grow your team within a healthcare environment.
  • Lead and manage community-based health initiatives and services, analyze health systems and design sustainable interventions, navigate health policy and regulatory frameworks, use data to inform decision-making, and measure health outcomes.

Careers in Health Administration

As a healthcare professional with an MCHA degree, you possess a highly transferable skill set that prepares you to lead. Understanding complex health systems, strategic decision-making, managerial methods, and core business principles ensures you can promote health initiatives, run organizations, and help keep communities healthy. 

With these competencies, you can work as a:

  • Community health director
  • Clinic manager
  • Public health administrator
  • Policy analyst

How to Apply to the MCHA Program

Ready to take the next step? Start applying to the online master’s in health administration program today. To be considered for admission, you must have earned your bachelor’s degree by the beginning of the program. 

Additionally, we utilize rolling admissions and offer fall and spring program start dates.

When applying to ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s community health graduate program, you must include: 

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  • Personal statement
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  • Letter of recommendation
  • Transcripts from all previously attended institutions
  • English language proficiency (TOEFL, PTE, IELTS, or iTEP is required for international applicants)

What’s the Application Review Process?

After you submit your application, our team will review your materials and contact you to schedule an admissions interview. This interview helps us get to know you as an applicant, learn about your academic and career goals, and discover if ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø is the right fit for you.

Our Admissions Committee is made up of faculty and senior administrators who thoroughly review each application. We consider your application in the context of the total applicant pool and in relation to our general admissions standards. We do not use arbitrary GPAs or test score cutoffs.

All admissions decisions are final for the academic year in which they are rendered.

Applying from outside the U.S.? Learn more about our international admissions process.

Financing Your MCHA Degree

At ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, we demonstrate our commitment to accessible, high-value education by offering generous financial assistance, helpful resources, and enduring support. Last year, 100% of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø students received scholarships, lowering the cost of their degree and empowering them to achieve their career dreams.

Discover how Keck Graduate Institute can help you invest in your future.

Financing Your Studies

Keep Communities Healthy: Earn Your Health Administration Master’s Degree Online

ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s online Master of Community Health Administration program delivers an interdisciplinary education that spurs transformative professional growth. With the skills and industry connections you cultivate during the program, you graduate ready to advance healthcare delivery and improve patient care in communities worldwide.

and get one step closer to a fulfilling career that brings real-world change.

Scholarships Available! For a limited time. Apply today.

Program Course Overview

These courses may also be taken as individual certificates separately.

Community Health
9 credits

  • MSCM 5001 Infectious Diseases and Community Health (3 credits)
  • MSCM 5002 Chronic Diseases and Community Health (3 credits)
  • MSCM 5302 Community Health Challenges (3 credits)

Health Systems
6 credits

  • MSCM 5015 Health Systems Sciences (3 credits)
  • MSCM 5501 Direct to Community Medicine (3 credits)

Healthcare Economics
6 credits

  • BUS 5200 Healthcare Economics (1.5 credits)
  • BUS 6210 Advanced Healthcare Economics (1.5 credits)
  • BUS 6220 Drug Pricing & Reimbursement (1.5 credits)
  • Health Economics Elective (1.5 credits)

Leadership
6 credits

  • BUS 6400 Organizational Behavior (3 credits)
  • MSCM 5601 (3 credits) OR
    BUS 6410 Leadership in Organizations (1.5 credits) + Elective (1.5 credits)

Community Engagement Capstone
6 credits

  • MSCM 5997 Community Engagement Capstone Project (6 credits) OR
    MSCM 5998 Community Engagement Capstone Project (6 credits)

Program Faculty and Staff