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Healthcare Policy and Management
Overview
Official Name of Program
Department(s) Sponsoring Program
Degree Designation
This degree accommodates students with diverse interests in healthcare while supporting their entry from a variety of backgrounds—high school, associate-level degrees, and career paths transferrable to healthcare operations such as hospitality, business, and law. It prepares students with minimal or no healthcare experience to enter a robust labor market in healthcare planning, operations policy and management, as well as the ability to pursue related graduate studies.
Learning Outcomes
The ability to:
Analyze policies, economic trends, and determinants of health to strategically plan health services delivery.
Plan and organize resources essential for the efficient operation and the equitable delivery of health services.
Develop healthcare financial management plans applicable to the healthcare business setting.
Use industry standard health technology applications for managing administrative and clinical information.
Apply computational methods to analyze and improve processes in healthcare organizations and systems.
Integrate policy, management, and finance in applied administrative settings.
Articulation Agreements
The program has an articulation agreement with the AS in Public Health from BMCC and an option to earn a graduate degree from CUNY School of Public Health with one additional year of full-time study.
Please refer to the college website to see the full text of the agreements.
Distance Learning Information
The BS in Healthcare Policy and Management has been approved by NYSED and MSCHE to be offered as a fully online program.
This degree program does not accept international students needing an F-1 visa, because we cannot guarantee that students will be able satisfy the Department of Homeland Security requirement that students maintain their full-time status and do not take more than 3 credits online each semester (dhs.gov). A significant component of this program is offered online.
Before applying, an international applicant who wishes to study at City Tech under an F-1 visa should email Vanessa Villaneuva, VVillaneuva@citytech.cuny.edu.
Advisement Information
Please consult the department website for full details.