Healthcare Administration - Business Administration
Why earn a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with a concentration in healthcare administration at Coe College?
Prepare for a career in healthcare administration while earning your business administration degree.
Get ready for a leadership role in the ever-expanding health industry with our flexible, hybrid classes. You’ll be ready for careers in healthcare through on-campus research opportunities and extensive hands-on experiences with expert leaders in the MedQuarter Regional Medical District, a 55-square-block district with 500+ medical providers. Coe is located within this district!
Students within the healthcare administration concentration will take up to six courses online, with remaining coursework in the core curriculum completed in person on campus. The hybrid model combines a robust campus life and in-person learning experience with the flexibility of some online learning.
The hybrid courses are offered in partnership with Rize Education. Rize will allow Coe to tap into industry expertise and curriculum designed specifically for workforce preparation. Rize courses are taught by a partner institution within a learning consortium. This partnership offers students cutting-edge curriculum, greater scheduling flexibility and access to nationwide experts in the field.
What is healthcare administration like at Coe?
Find your niche within the wide scope of healthcare and cultivate your skills.
Become a leader in complex environments, systems economics, organizational management and policy. With this concentration you can support patients and healthcare workers to improve operational structures, data-driven decision-making and financial sustainability. Healthcare administration courses combine economics, management, communication and analytical skills with healthcare-specific expertise to prepare students for leadership roles in administration, consulting, operations, human resources or a pathway to future graduate study.
With a location within the dynamic MedQuarter, internships, job shadows or part-time work opportunities are plentiful. We want you to learn if healthcare is the fit for you quickly. Our location is across the street from Physicians of Iowa (PCI) and St. Luke’s Hospital - Unity Point, where you can walk to your hands-on work opportunity in under two minutes.
“It is our goal to continue to open up more opportunities for our students and simultaneously serve workforce needs...”
Angela Ziskowski Provost
How you can diversify your professional options
Expand your professional pathway with experience throughout our wide community of health and wellness institutions in the MedQuarter next to campus.
Through hands-on coursework and internship opportunities, gain the hands-on knowledge and experiences to begin building your resume for roles in healthcare leadership.
- Secure your place within the ever-growing world of healthcare, where medical and health services managers are growing by 23% (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics).
- Nearly 100% of reporting Coe graduates have been employed or enrolled in graduate school within nine months of graduation.
- Coe has ranked as a Top 25 Best Private Schools for Internships for 6 of the last 8 years according to The Princeton Review.
Advance to the next level of your career and discover new roles:
- Hospital Administrator
- Community Health Coordinator
- Health Education Specialist
- Health Information Technologist
- Healthcare Social/Support Worker
- Human Resource Specialist
- Medical Services Manager
- Occupational Health and Safety Specialist
- And more
Secure employment within walking distance from campus with nearby institutions:
- Cedar Rapids Pediatric Dentistry
- Community Health Free Clinic
- His Hands Free Clinic
- Iowa Eye Center
- Mercy Medical Center
- MercyOne
- Physician’s Clinic of Iowa (PCI)
- St. Luke’s Hospital - UnityPoint
- Tanager Place
- UIHC Pediatrics - Cedar Rapids
- And more
