Career Success

An MHA degree is a significant investment and you need to know you'll receive not only a great education, but also the industry connections, applied learning for real-world settings, and superior resources to get ahead and advance in your career. Dartmouth’s comprehensive approach to your professional development is multifold and begins the very first day of your degree program.

Mentorship Program

Our MHA students are uniquely positioned to build substantial industry connections through one-on-one mentoring with senior-level professionals in health care. Students are strategically matched with graduates from our Master of Health Care Delivery Science program, who are executive leaders with an average of 20+ years of experience in health care.

The structured yet open-ended mentor meetings provide MHA students with a space for meaningful reflection on their goals for the program as well as practical strategies for achieving career aspirations. Each conversation also serves as a way for students to understand how concepts from the curriculum manifest in the real world and how to present their new knowledge in pursuit of new opportunities. 

Capstone & Applied Learning

The MHA curriculum emphasizes applied learning that is immediately implementable into students’ current roles and utilized throughout their careers. Site visits to health facilities are an opportunity for students to connect with senior leaders and learn more about the challenges, efforts, and day-to-day operations of various facilities. This experience sees students build a deeper understanding of how interconnected health systems work together while broadening their prospective career possibilities as successful health administrators.

The Capstone is a longitudinal, self-directed learning experience which serves as a culmination of the MHA curriculum. Working with a field-based host site in a “consultant-like” role, students analyze a defined problem, gap, dilemma, or need identified by the site. They then create a project plan employing financial analysis, operations, strategic planning, and more to build a final recommendation for the partner site. The Capstone reinforces skills students gained throughout the program, expands students’ professional networks, and delivers insights for host sites. Learn more about the Capstone in the introductory video below.

Career Services

As students discover new avenues of personal and professional growth throughout their MHA experience, dedicated career services staff are there to help develop personalized career plans that give students actionable paths toward their career goals. Students leverage career services through one-on-one career coaching, events to prepare for job searches, and connections to Dartmouth’s extensive resources. In addition to relationship building with Dartmouth alumni, faculty and staff, our team assists with identifying and reaching out to potential employers.

Career services is a resource to reflect on your professional endeavors and provide guidance throughout your search for your best next step.

Alumni Events

Our students are a passionate community of life-long learners. Along with alumni of our Master of Health Care Delivery Science degree program, MHA students and graduates have access to continued learning and networking opportunities in both online and in-person formats. Offerings include virtual seminars that dive deep into timely topics affecting the health care landscape, learning expeditions to prominent health systems, and alumni conferences known as “symposia” where past students come together to discuss and explore innovation in health care delivery. To explore past seminars and symposia, visit the Health Care Management Student/Alumni Hub here.

With more than 13 years of graduates from our degree programs, our alumni services and networking events present abundant opportunity for past students to continue learning and growing their professional connections.

Dartmouth’s Extensive Network

The strength of Dartmouth, Tuck, and Geisel alumni network is legendary and provides the strongest possible entrée into fast-track careers in health care.  Our graduates are senior physician and executive leaders in health care organizations such as Cleveland Clinic, Dartmouth Health,  UnitedHealthcare/Optum, Northwell Health, Mass General Brigham, the Chartis Group, Intermountain Health,  the Veteran's Administration, Novartis, the World Health Organization, and many more. Existing relationships between Dartmouth and these organizations mean ready opportunities for MHA recruitment.