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You may want an MHA if you’re looking to “understand the industry as a whole”. An MBA is really focused on foundational business knowledge then going beyond. Did I learn more about healthcare, yes but I could have gained the cursory knowledge from Google. My healthcare classes did focus on me going beyond and challenging the industry but I opted to get an MBA for other reasons. Maybe consider a dual degree.
Do you have an idea of a job you’d want post degree?
Ohio state has a great dual Mba/Mha
I’m in a part-time healthcare MBA right now. It’s an exec-focused program, so the goal is to learn enough about balance sheets and finance and accounting to read the reports that your team prepares, but not necessarily to prepare them yourself. It’s perfect for where I am in my career and the knowledge gaps I feel I have, and has the added benefit of nearly all of your case studies and project work being healthcare-focused. My finance class was about cost analyses and overhead calculations for independent radiology groups, which was directly applicable to my day-to-day work. My cohort is about 50% clinicians in some leadership capacity or another, practice managers, researchers, rev cycle managers, and administrators, so I have a wealth of healthcare experience to learn from in them, too. Happy to talk about it if you want to drop me a line.
Ehhh I have an MHA, but have learned everything on the job. At best, the degree opened up doors/opportunities for me. Other than that, I definitely don't feel like it's worth the investment if you're just trying to go back and learn about healthcare in general. You can self-study for that, tons of free resources out there.
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Graduate degrees don’t teach you anything that google and job can’t. It’s all about the network and the 3 letters it gives you after your name.
Not true at all. It's all about how the individual maximizes the opportunity. Put yourself in the best position to be successful based on your learning and development needs. People in my cohort came from all different paths- career pivot, undergrad, clinical practice etc. It's all about your reasoning for pursuing the degree aligning that with the opportunities, whether professional or educational, that you will be afforded.