Lead and innovate in health care with programs that build leadership, policy, data, and management expertise for real-world impact.
Health care leadership requires strategic thinking, systems expertise, and a commitment to improving quality and outcomes. The Department of Healthcare Leadership & Management offers online and hybrid degree programs that prepare professionals to lead change across health care organizations.
Our programs span leadership, informatics, and health care quality & safety, providing flexible pathways for advancing your knowledge, skills, and impact—without stepping away from your career.
Discover our available degree programs below.
Beginning Spring 2027
Build the confidence, analytical fluency, and administrative insight needed to contribute meaningfully to modern health care with this online degree completion program.
The MHA program offers an online track to provide the needed knowledge and skills for advancement in the health care industry.
Advance your health care leadership and management career with MUSC’s CAHME-accredited Master in Health Administration program.
Advance your health administration and policy career with MUSC’s DHA program through online coursework, in-person intensives and applied doctoral research.
Beginning Fall 2026
Advance your health administration and policy career with MUSC’s DHA program through a fully online version or our renowned applied doctoral program.
Explore the growing field of health informatics. Study the collection, organization, and application of information in health care and medical research.
Beginning Spring 2027
Strengthen safety, improve outcomes, and guide system-level change in today’s complex health environments.
Professor and Chair
Department of Healthcare Leadership and Management
Associate Professor
Department of Healthcare Leadership and Management
Associate Professor
Associate Director, Comparative Effectiveness Data Analytics Research (CEDAR) Core
Research Associate
Doctor of Health Administration
Instructor
Executive Assistant to the Dean & Director of Strategic Initiatives
Research Associate
Associate Director-Pilot Studies, CEDAR Core
Distinguished University Professor, College of Health Professions
Department of Healthcare Leadership & Management
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Business Administrator
Administrative Assistant
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