Vanderbilt has a vision to shape the future of the health care industry.
The key to change is equipping tomorrow’s leaders with a comprehensive understanding of the health care system combined with a solid foundation of business basics. The Vanderbilt Health Care MBA Program is an experiential, university-wide, community-supported opportunity focused on producing graduates with the knowledge, skills, and resources to revolutionize the health care system.
No other university can match the quality of resources, research, and relationships that exist here. It’s a place that combines a nationally ranked business school, a top academic medical center, and a large and growing concentration of entrepreneurial health care companies. These elements converge at Vanderbilt University, located in Nashville – a major hub of health care in the United States.
The industry is in search of well-trained leaders who understand health care. If you are looking to further your career with an MBA degree that combines a world-class core business education with unrivalled immersion into the health care industry, we invite you to discover what Vanderbilt has to offer.
Traditional health care education programs perpetuate the fragmented nature of the industry; for example, physicians and financial managers with conventional degrees often don’t understand each other’s business. To create real change, managers must fully grasp how all of the pieces of the health care puzzle fit together, and how each decision affects the entire system. The Vanderbilt Health Care MBA program provides a unique insight into this complex world through a blend of solid business basics plus experiential and integrative learning.
Students complete the Vanderbilt Health Care MBA program in two years by fulfilling the MBA core requirements, along with the requirements for a traditional MBA concentration in addition to the Health Care specialization.
Because effective managers in all sectors of health care need solid grounding in management disciplines, Health Care MBA students take a set of core courses emphasizing business fundamentals. The core curriculum equips Vanderbilt students with exceptional analytical, strategic thinking, and teamwork skills.
Health Care MBA students select from one of the following concentrations, each of which requires 12 credit hours beyond the core: Accounting, Finance, General Management, Human and Organizational Performance, Information Technology, Marketing, Operations or Strategy.
To earn the Health Care specialization, students complete a rigorous curriculum of 17 credit hours that requires more health care courses than other programs of its kind. In addition, the innovative seven-week modular framework allows students the flexibility to take a variety of health care electives.
Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management is a business school unlike others. Here you will discover a rigorous, market-focused program of study in a unique and intimate atmosphere that is supportive and collegial. When you attend Owen, we will know your name and we will help you discover your potential. We will challenge you as we help you fulfill that potential—holding you accountable yet supporting you each step of the way.
Here you can shape your world, however you define it. Whether you are a prospective student looking to catapult your career, a faculty or staff member wanting to make an impact in your chosen profession, a recruiter needing top talent for your organization, or an alumnus—whom we value highly as part of this enduring community—you have Our Promise: a promise to do everything within our power to help you achieve your professional goals.
Owen’s reputation for research and the prestige of Vanderbilt University have enabled the school to attract and retain faculty excelling in both research and teaching. Owen faculty offer students cutting-edge knowledge of how business theory and practice come together in the world’s leading companies. What’s more, the spirit of respect and intellectual curiosity that binds faculty and students in the classroom often extends beyond the B-school walls and leads to lifelong bonds and friendships.
The Owen School is also home to several distinguished Centers of Excellence that unite academic and business communities for a common cause and mutual betterment. These Centers have their own impact in our national and global markets and are one more opportunity to enrich the Owen Experience.
