Your Pathway to Health Care Leadership

A Master of Health Administration (MHA) from Dartmouth provides the skills and knowledge you need to advance your career, the health of your community, and the mission of your organization.

  • A flexible 12- or 24-month degree program brought to you by a top-ranked business school and historic medical school, designed so you can advance your career on your schedule.
  • Centered on management and business concepts through a health care lens, lessons are delivered by renowned faculty while you build connections with peers from across the industry.
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  • MHA students are professionals ready to make a bigger impact in health care. Seeing the need for change at an administrative level, they want to grow their training and skills to become leaders who can bridge gaps across teams. Each student arrives at Dartmouth with a background that informs their contributions to a diverse and rich class discourse, in roles including clinicians, managers, and industry professionals.
  • An innovative combination of online learning and brief on-campus course sessions characterize the hybrid delivery structure of the Master of Health Administration (MHA) at Dartmouth, providing the flexibility you need while allowing you to build networks and strong bonds with the cohort and faculty.
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  • Health Care Management Education at Dartmouth offers two distinct master's programs. Discover which is right for you.
  • The Master of Health Administration (MHA) is for early and mid-career professionals in their first decade of work experience. The program prepares students to lead across teams and projects while building their careers through a focused, rigorous curriculum. Blending the right balance between health care and business topics, the MHA curriculum includes health systems, accounting, economics, finance, population health equity, strategic planning, and operations management.
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  • The Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) is designed for accomplished clinical and executive leaders with significant professional experience (10+ years). Students are trained in high-level concepts to design and lead sweeping transformations throughout their organizations and the industry. The curriculum develops competencies in health care strategy and innovation, finance, managing people and organizational change, health economics and policy, and leadership.
    EXPLORE THE MHCDS DEGREE

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12 or 24 months

Time to Complete Your Degree

Students can choose to earn their degree in the standard 24-month program or pursue the accelerated track, earning their degree in only 12 months.
$101,340

Median Salary for Medical and Health Services Managers in the US

US Bureau of Labor Statistics in May of 2021
28%

Growth in Demand

This fast-growing field is expected to grow 28% through 2031.

If you already know you want to pursue an MHA at Dartmouth

What makes a Dartmouth MHA distinct?

Health Care Management Education at Dartmouth

Experience the fusion of excellence in Dartmouth's Master of Health Administration program, where faculty from two of Dartmouth’s distinguished institutions – the Tuck School of Business and the Geisel School of Medicine – collaborate to redefine health care leadership. Benefit from the cross-pollination of Tuck's strategic business insights and Geisel's clinical and health policy expertise. This powerful combination equips you with a multifaceted skill set, enabling you to navigate health care's intricate challenges with precision.
  • Faculty

    Katherine Milligan, MBA, PhD

    Associate Dean for Health Care Management Education at Dartmouth
    Dartmouth College

    The career benefits of a Dartmouth MHA go beyond the classroom. Students leverage the deep industry and alumni connections of the Geisel School of Medicine and the Tuck School of Business as well as the greater Dartmouth community. MHA graduates have both the opportunity and the resources to forge outstanding careers in health care management.

  • Class of 2026

    Sophia Castaldo

    Project Coordinator
    Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

    "Dartmouth’s MHA is mission-driven, focused on developing thoughtful leaders within health care. This attracts students who are committed to promoting equity and access, who are also deeply passionate about the transformation of the health care industry. Learning alongside them offers a wealth of experiences and perspectives, that will shift the way you approach problems and develop solutions."

 

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Dartmouth is taking every step to ensure our newly-launched program is up to the most rigorous of standards for health management education. We currently hold Commission on Accreditation Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) Candidacy status.

CAHME Note: Candidate status is an indication that a program in healthcare management has voluntarily committed to participate in a plan of self-improvement and is actively progressing toward the status of accreditation. Candidate status is not accredited status and does not guarantee eventual accredited status.

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