Difference between mha and mba in hospital management

“The MHA is health care intensive,” says Spedding. “It’s designed as a program for someone coming from a health care or practitioner background.”

The MHA provides a deeper dive into health care management and leadership. Its curriculum involves core business classes, but unlike the MBA, the core classes are focused on the health care market. That means that the MHA graduate will be heavily rooted in the business side of health care and prepared for a career focused on health care leadership.

Master of Business Administration in Health Care Management

An MBA in Health Care Management has more of an overall business focus, with its core business courses covering skills transferrable to any industry.

“The MBA has big buckets of core business operations, such as analytics, leadership, accounting, and finance.” says Sankovich. “All the core MBA courses will have faculty practitioners in various business fields, including, but not limited to, health care. The health care specialization courses more mirror and overlap the MHA, but the MBA is more deeply focused on business itself.”