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Innovate your career with a forward-thinking, patient-centered health care program.

Grow your health care expertise, expand your network and deepen your industry insights without undertaking a full graduate degree. Designed for working professionals, the TCU Health Policy and Management Certificate equips you with the cutting-edge tools and advanced business insights to lead strategically across diverse health care sectors.

In the ever-evolving U.S. health care industry, successful leaders need a robust understanding of the intersecting operations of providers, facilities, payors, medical devices, pharmaceuticals and PBMs. They also require a broad skill set to grasp how clinical care delivery, operations, supply chain, management, finance and policy impact strategic decisions within health care organizations.

At TCU Neeley, we offer the resources, educators and network to help you become an adaptable, innovative health care leader, ready to propel your organization and the U.S. health care system forward.

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What Will You Gain?

  • Evening-only classes combined with flexible delivery formats designed for working professionals.
  • Market-driven, real-world knowledge in health care operations, economics, policy, strategy and organizational decision making, allowing you to make an immediate impact at work and in your career.
  • Industry-specific skills and business insights, empowering you to accurately analyze market competition, opportunities and risks, evaluate stakeholder interests, and confidently operate at the intersection of policy and strategy.
  • Strategic leadership development, focusing on teamwork, collaborative culture, adaptability and innovation.
  • Credit toward the Professional MBA – after completing the certificate, you can apply to the master’s degree program. If you are admitted, your certificate courses will count toward the degree.
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Real-world Insights with a Patient-focused Mission

At TCU Neeley, our health care program integrates practical, hands-on experience into the classroom, fostering learning from professors, mentors, peers and industry professionals. We bring together physicians, nurses, health business leaders and other health care professionals to collaborate, challenge assumptions and cultivate diverse perspectives.

Patient care is our guiding principle. Whether you're innovating in pharmaceuticals, shaping reimbursement strategies or provider networks, devising operational models, or driving organizational change, every effort ultimately serves the delivery of care to patients. Our curriculum reflects this commitment, blending business focus with patient-centricity to ensure excellence in health care education.

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Curriculum

Gain the broad knowledge and pioneering skills necessary to effectively lead, innovate and drive change both within your organization and throughout the health care industry.

The Health Policy and Management Certificate consists of nine credit hours.

Health Care Courses (6 required credit hours)

Electives (3 credit hours)

 

“There is a tremendous need for classically trained MBAs who have a firm understanding of the business of health care.”

– Darin Szilagyi, FACHE, MBA '94
Senior Vice President of Marketing & Communications, Platinum Dermatology Partners
Chair, Neeley Health Care Advisory Board

Tuition and Fees

2024-25 Academic Year
Tuition   $2,245 per semester hour
Certificate Fees        $650 per session
 

Estimated Total Tuition & Fees*
  Projected Semester Hours Number of Sessions Total Program Cost

Health Policy and Management Certificate 

 9 2 $20,605

* Estimate does not include annual tuition increases. Actual expenses will depend on the number of sessions taken to complete the program. Some programs offer options for completing the program in fewer semesters.

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