Health Care Management and Policy

专业详情

The Health Care Management Department offers the “Health Care Management and Policy” concentration to Wharton undergraduates who wish to learn about health care markets and factors that significantly influence decision making both at the policy level and at the level of the firm or organization. Health care management is an exciting field, which to the undergraduate major, offers excellent career opportunities in private health care corporations, non-profit organizations, and government agencies. Four courses are required for the concentration. With eight health care electives and the opportunity to take selected MBA-level health care management courses, students are able to integrate core general management skills with sophisticated understanding of the institutions of health care, a combination which health care leaders and executives value highly in new graduates. Additional information can be found at Health Care Management and Policy Concentration.

The concentration in health care management and policy focuses on the management, financing, and economics of the health care sector. Students learn about health care markets and factors that significantly influence decision making both at the policy level and at the level of the firm or organization. The health care sector includes government agencies, non-profit institutions, major private corporations, medical practices and partnerships, and many small and early-stage health care service and product firms.

This concentration prepares students for careers as managers in health care companies or health care service firms such as consulting, banking or health care IT companies, or government agencies. Students planning careers in the health professions such as medicine, nursing, or dentistry have found the concentration very useful in understanding the context in which they will be working.