The MBA with concentration in Health Services Management is a cooperative program offered by the UNT College of Business Administration and the UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth School of Public Health. This program prepares students to facilitate the practice of health care and align the business of health care with its healing purpose. The program provides students with solid business management skills and industry specific knowledge needed to effectively lead today's health care organizations. The broad spectrum of health care services in the Dallas-Fort Worth region affords students employment opportunities from a wide array of settings including hospitals, ambulatory care centers, managed care organizations, surgical care centers, medical group practices, pharmaceutical firms and consulting firms. Click here (link to forms & documents page) for a printable MBA HSMG information sheet.
Career Possibilities with an MBA in Health Service Management
| Emergency Management Specialist | Management Analyst |
| Health Educator | Medical and Health Services Manager |
| Hospital Administrator | Medical Records & Health Info. Technician |
| Industrial Safety and Health Engineer | Occupational Health and Safety Specialist |
Professional Organizations
Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and the Institute for Supply Management (ISM)
Course Requirements
**Note: In order to enroll in HMAP or EPID courses, students must be admitted to the UNTHSC School of Public Health. For more information, please contact the HSM program coordinator, Dr. Mark Davis
Background Courses* (18 hours)
*Note: Background course may be required if your undergraduate degree did not prepare you for current master level courses. Background courses are assessed on an as needed basis after evaluation of undergraduate transcripts.
| ACCT 5020 (3 hrs) |
Accumulation and Analysis of Accounting Data |
| BCIS 5090 (1.5 hrs) |
Intro. to Business Computer Info. Systems |
| BLAW 5050 (1.5 hrs) |
Legal, Reg., and Ethical Env. Of Business |
| DSCI 5010 (1.5 hrs) |
Statistical Analysis |
| ECON 5000 (3 hrs) |
Economic Concepts |
| FINA 5040 (1.5 hrs) |
Intro. to Finance and Financial Mathematics |
| MATH 1190 (3 hrs) |
Business Calculus |
| MGMT 5070 (1.5 hrs) |
Management Issues |
| MKTG 5000 (1.5 hrs) |
Marketing Concepts |
Core Courses (18 Hours)
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ACCT 5130 |
Accounting for Management |
| DSCI 5180 |
Introduction to Decision Making |
| FINA 5170 |
Financial Management |
| MKTG 5150 |
Marketing Management |
| MGMT 5140 |
Organizational Behavior & Analysis |
| BUSI 5190 |
Administrative Strategy (last semester) |
Concentration Courses (15 hours)
Required Courses (6 hours)
| MGMT 5530 |
Physical Practice Organizations |
| HMAP 5350 |
Health Economics |
Select 3 courses (9 hours) from this group:
| HMAP 5270 |
Health Services Management* |
| HMAP 6215 |
Health insurance and Managed Care* |
| HMAP 5255 |
Health Finance I* |
| HMAP 5256 |
Health Finance II |
| HMAP 5260 |
Health Information Systems |
| HMAP 5240 |
Health Politics & Policy |
| HMAP 5272 |
Strategy Planning & Marketing |
| EPID 5100 |
Epidemiology |
*Recommended; ECON 5180 Economics of Health Care (UNT Denton) may substitute for three of the 9 hours of supporting coursework.
Concentration Elective (3 hours)
In addition to the above courses, you will need to select one course (3 hours) to add breadth to your program. This selection must come from UNT Denton 51XX-level course listings.
