MBA (Healthcare sector) 2021/22 entry
Overview
Studied on campus or 100% online, this MBA is aimed specifically at current and aspiring managers who wish to develop their career in healthcare, social care and third sector organisations. It provides you with the opportunity to gain the knowledge and skills required to progress to senior management and leadership roles. With a strong practitioner focus, personal and career development is an underlying theme running through this course.
The MBA draws from your current and past experience, encouraging you to constantly apply theory to practice. It aims to enhance your capabilities to think critically, deal with ambiguity and seek solutions to complex problems. You can develop the core knowledge of concepts and business models, with a strong understanding of processes and practices, in order to develop your leadership, financial and project management skills within the healthcare management sector.
Note: This course is part of the MBA Master of Business Administration
As part of this degree, you will have the opportunity to investigate the way management practice relates to wider societal and intercultural issues. You will consider the need for responsible, ethical and culturally sensitive practices in today’s global economy and the challenges it may present. The course will explore the wider external consequences of decisions and actions taken within the organisation, in order to develop your responsible management practice and help you with career progression.
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All the support you need, in a top student cityStudy on campus
If you choose to attend our campus study option, you may be taught through a blend of online learning, timetabled lectures, tutorials and seminars, which could take place face-to-face with other students.
Study 100% online
You can choose to study remotely. You will have timetabled classes, online tutorials and seminars, with all your learning activities available on-demand so that you can learn at the best time and location for you.
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What our tutors say
Many students choose an MBA because they want to become entrepreneurs and learn how to run a business. This degree will help develop the skills and knowledge necessary to start a new business or help an existing business grow.
The global cohort of students on this course will allow you to explore the importance of culture-sensitive management and emerge as a well-rounded global leader able to act and succeed anywhere in the world.
Course information
Health and Social Care is a substantial and growing service sector, with new government investments giving it a higher profile than ever. Rapid changes within the industry mean that there is likely to be demand for well-trained and multi-skilled individuals.
The aim of this course is to equip you with the personal and professional skills to enable you to think creatively about the delivery of existing health care services and to respond to future demands. You will address the unique challenges and complexities facing managers and leaders in health and social care organisations.
This pathway includes two healthcare management specialist modules and your project will also be in this field. There will be no reference to healthcare management on your degree certificate, however your transcript will show all the modules you have studied and the grades you received.
The course consists of three distinct but interconnected stages:
- The Certificate phase will develop a resource-based view of the business enterprise and examine how value is created, including the impact of the wider business environment on the enterprise’s value creation activities.
- In the Diploma stage the focus shifts to considering the manager’s role in the development of an enterprise in response to the internal and external context, to create sustainable value.
- The Masters phase of the programme will focus more specifically on the healthcare sector and /or healthcare management roles. The emphasis will be on exploring, critically evaluating and applying a range of sector specific models and concepts within a healthcare setting.
The course will also support you in clarifying and developing your career goals and will encourage reflection on how those goals might be met.
Course Specification
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In more detail...
The MBA for the Healthcare Sector is delivered as a collaboration between the Coventry Business School and the School of Nursing Midwifery and Health, drawing on subject expertise from both faculties. You will be taught by highly qualified academics from a variety of backgrounds and with considerable practical experience in industry, including healthcare, law, accounting, business and commerce.
One of the key aims of the programme is to provide you with the experience from real-life organisations. You will be exposed to real-life case studies and simulations, learning from engaging guest speakers from the industry who will share their expertise and experiences of developing strategies, managing change and growth in their organisations, bringing both contemporary and theoretical aspects to life.
As healthcare becomes a focus for government initiatives and investments all over the world, this pathway is designed to give you the opportunity to learn how to apply quality improvement theories and techniques to health and social care services in differing cultures and contexts.
You will have the opportunity to gain knowledge on the theories of leadership and understand how to apply them in a health and social care setting.
You should gain the ability to critically analyse the shifting relationships between professional identity, managerial essentials and social entrepreneurship in your own practice.
You will have the opportunity to develop a broad and holistic view of the way businesses operate and the impact of the external environment. You will look at an organisation from a different perspective: the organisation as a learning entity made up of individuals, as a combination of inter-related processes focused on adding value, and as a financial entity focused on creating monetary returns. You will focus on exploring the role of the manager as a strategic leader and the role managers play in organisations to transform and adapt to environment changes. As part of this course, you will be required to create innovative approaches and solutions to work-based problems, which should help you develop the ability to be entrepreneurial in your professional practice.
The course is primarily designed to be studied part-time by students currently in employment.
For each module, we will provide engaging video lectures and a variety of interactive content and activities. The online contact between lecturers and colleagues aims to help you stay motivated and committed to learning.
Each module runs with 15 credits across an academic semester of 13 weeks, requiring an estimated 10-15 hours of study time per week, with the flexibility for students to study from one to two modules per academic semester.
The underlying focus is on developing your ability to think critically and strategically and to enable you to develop solutions to complex problems within an ever changing and ambiguous business environment. You can benefit from the innovative and interactive content and activities provided on our online platform FutureLearn. This opens up opportunities to participate in projects with students from around the world. The online contact between you, your lecturers and fellow students will help you stay motivated and committed to learning.
Mixed assessment modes offer students a range of opportunities to demonstrate their achievement of learning outcomes. You will be assessed through a combination of coursework assessments, business plans and activities, all completed online.
As part of the degree, you will initiate and lead a change project within a practice setting. In order to do this successfully you will be required to apply the knowledge drawn from across the course and to demonstrate the strategic thought and leadership capabilities which are core to the course.
On successful completion of this course you should be able to:
- Demonstrate an appreciation of the social and environmental impact of an enterprise and the need to develop ethical and responsible management practices.
- Act in a culturally sensitive manner towards all of an enterprise's stakeholders through having an understanding of the interconnected global nature of the business.
- Demonstrate reflective practice for the development and achievement of personal career goals.
- Critically assess the basis of an enterprise’s value creating activities and the impact of the external environment on value creation.
- Critically assess the manager’s role in ensuring that an enterprise creates sustainable value in the context of dynamic internal and external environments.
- Demonstrate the ability to think strategically and explore potential solutions to complex and ambiguous problems.
- Explore, critically evaluate and apply a range of sector/role specific models and concepts within a practice setting.
- Formulate potential solutions to complex and ambiguous problems while acknowledging the risks and evaluating potential outcomes.
- Initiate and lead a healthcare sector/role specific change management project.
Each 15 credit module will consist of 150 hours of activities. The activity time will be made up of a mixture of guided and self-guided study. You will have access to an experienced team of tutors and lecturers who will support your studies. Each module will have dedicated online tutorials to support your learning.
You will have opportunities to collaborate with students from around the world through our online platform FutureLearn. The international nature of our course design and delivery will provide you with a diverse range of experiences from across the globe.
What our tutors say
Many students choose an MBA because they want to become entrepreneurs and learn how to run a business. This degree will help develop the skills and knowledge necessary to start a new business or help an existing business grow.
The global cohort of students on this course will allow you to explore the importance of culture-sensitive management and emerge as a well-rounded global leader able to act and succeed anywhere in the world.
Entry Requirements
What our tutors say
Many students choose an MBA because they want to become entrepreneurs and learn how to run a business. This degree will help develop the skills and knowledge necessary to start a new business or help an existing business grow.
The global cohort of students on this course will allow you to explore the importance of culture-sensitive management and emerge as a well-rounded global leader able to act and succeed anywhere in the world.
Tuition Fees
We pride ourselves on offering competitive tuition fees which we review on an annual basis and offer a wide range of scholarships to support students with their studies. Course fees are calculated on the basis of what it costs to teach each course and we aim for total financial transparency.
You can study this course on a part-time basis. The cost is based on the credits studied per year. For further information please contact our Admissions team.
For students commencing this course from September 2021, please note that the University’s and CU Group’s Tuition Fee and Refund Terms and Conditions will be updated for the 2021/2022 academic year. The updated Terms and Conditions will be sent to students in their offer letter and will be updated on the website.
What our tutors say
Many students choose an MBA because they want to become entrepreneurs and learn how to run a business. This degree will help develop the skills and knowledge necessary to start a new business or help an existing business grow.
The global cohort of students on this course will allow you to explore the importance of culture-sensitive management and emerge as a well-rounded global leader able to act and succeed anywhere in the world.
Career prospects
Graduate Immigration Route visa
Based on current information from the UK Government, international students whose study extends beyond summer 2021 may be eligible for a visa under the UK Government’s Graduate Immigration Route, which will enable students to stay and work, or look for work, in the UK at any skill level for up to two (2) years. Check the most up to date guidance available to check your eligibility and any updates from the UK Government before making an application or enrolment decision.
The School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health has excellent and established links with health, social care and third sector organisations. Graduates from this programme can enter positions which come with great personal and financial rewards.
Earning an MBA is an excellent way to propel your career to reach higher management positions in the world of health and social care. The learning and development offered by this qualification prepares graduates for employment at director level, either in discrete service departments and hospital units, private or publically funded hospitals, and services and healthcare companies around the globe.
Where our graduates work
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Graduates from the on-campus version of this course have gone on to work in senior management and executive roles in UK-based NHS hospitals and community trusts worldwide. They work in management posts within local, regional, national and international government policy-making bodies (Clinical Commissioning Groups, NHS England Professional Bodies, Ministries of Health, World Health Organization). Some graduates have found opportunities within health-related industries, for example the pharmaceutical industry, senior management roles within third sector organisations, and charities. |
What our tutors say
Many students choose an MBA because they want to become entrepreneurs and learn how to run a business. This degree will help develop the skills and knowledge necessary to start a new business or help an existing business grow.
The global cohort of students on this course will allow you to explore the importance of culture-sensitive management and emerge as a well-rounded global leader able to act and succeed anywhere in the world.
Disclaimer
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
The University may deliver certain contact hours and assessments via emerging online technologies and methods across all courses. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, we are prepared for courses due to start in or after the 2021/2022 academic year to be delivered in a variety of forms. The form of delivery will be determined in accordance with Government and Public Health guidance. Whether on campus or online, our key priority is staff and student safety.
Due to the ongoing restrictions relating to Covid-19, some facilities (including some teaching and learning spaces) and some non-academic offerings (particularly in relation to international experiences), may vary from those advertised and may have reduced availability or restrictions on their use
Disclaimer
By accepting your offer of a place and enrolling with Coventry University, a Student Contract will be formed between you and Coventry University. A copy of the student contract will be made available to you via the dedicated Admissions Teams, during the enquiry/application stage and upon enrolment. The Contract details your rights and the obligations you will be bound by during your time as a student and contains the obligations that the University will owe to you. You should read the Contract before you accept an offer of a place and before you enrol with the University.
Postgraduate Home students
The tuition fee for the course that is stated on the course webpage and in the prospectus will apply. If the duration of the course is longer than one academic year, we may increase the fee for each subsequent year of study but any such increases will be no more than inflation. Following the UK’s exit from the European Union, EU students should be aware that there may be a change to UK laws following the UK’s exit, this may change their student status, their eligibility to study part time, and/or their eligibility for student finance. We will act in accordance with the UK’s laws in force in relation to student tuition fees and finance from time to time.
Postgraduate International students
The tuition fee that is stated on the course webpage and in the prospectus for the first year of study will apply. We will review our tuition fees each year. For international students, we may increase fees for each subsequent year of study but such increases will be no more than 5% above inflation.
