Health and Life Sciences Majors at IUPUI

Undergraduate Majors : Health Services Management (Bachelor degree)

Description

A Bachelor of Science in Health Services Management will give you a foundation in business while sharpening your expertise in the growing health care industry. You will be trained to balance priorities and budgets, to solve fiscal and managerial problems, and to meet legal mandates, all while upholding the highest standards of public health and health care.

Admissions/Certification

For admission to SPEA, students must have completed 12 credit hours on the IUPUI campus, earn a C or better in ENG W131 English Composition, carry a 2.0 previous semester GPA, and carry 2.0 cumulative GPA. If students have taken 12 credit hours of major courses, they must have a 2.3 SPEA major GPA.

What can you do with this major?

SPEA's Health Services Management graduates can be found working for a variety of public, nonprofit, and private organizations. This program will prepare students for careers as home health care managers and consultants, hospital marketing specialists, human resources specialists, insurance sales and claims representative, long-term care administrators, medical staffing coordinators, pharmaceutical sales representatives, provider relations representatives, public health consultants, billing analysts, budget and reimbursement analysts, and group practice managers just to name a few.

Experiential Learning

The Health Services Management program requires a one credit hour internship to meet graduation requirements. To complete these requirements, students must record at least 80 working hours on the job. Students will also complete a final paper to receive credit.

Students are also required to complete a practicum experience. This experience consists of personal career-planning coupled with weekly field visits to health care agencies in central Indiana.