Health Services Administration

This is a career development degree for individuals who already hold an A.A.S. degree from a clinical healthcare program with clinical licensure, or graduated from an articulated program. This degree is only open to senior-level students who graduated with a GPA of 2.5 or higher. It provides students with the knowledge and skills of overseeing healthcare systems and the delivery of healthcare services.

Learning Outcomes

• Articulate the role of supervisors, managers, directors, and administrators in health services organizations.

• Demonstrate entry-level management skills to plan, organize, direct, and control the function and processes of a health service organization.

• Apply budget information and financial analysis to making decisions within health service organizations.

• Evaluate laws and policy regulations as well as apply appropriate legal decisions to the administration of health services organizations.

• Collect, interpret, and apply data and research findings.

• Exercise proficient communication skills including written and oral communication.

• Engage in formal presentations and demonstrate technology competency with various electronic media.

• Integrate science, mathematics, humanities, critical thinking, information literacy, interpersonal skills, and problem-solving skills

Admission Requirements

Prerequisites for entering the program are an appropriate associate degree with a minimum grade point average of 2.5 and licensure or certification in a clinical health science discipline. To enter the Health Services Administration program, you will need ONE of the following two entrance pathways:

1. Licensed health care providers: Graduates with an associate degree or higher from an accredited clinical program such as City Tech's NUR, DEN, RAD, RESD, VCT, with pending or granted licensure, with a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.5 in hand or pending.

2. Graduates from articulated degree programs: An associate degree or higher from a program that has an articulation agreement with NYCCT's HSA program with a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.5. HSA currently maintains articulations with select programs at BMCC, LaGuardia, Kingsborough & Hostos Community Colleges.

Progression Requirements

• A minimum grade of C must be earned in each course designated with the prefix HSA.

• No HSA course may be repeated more than once.

• No more than two HSA courses may be repeated during the entire course of study.

• Students must show progression (i.e. maintaining a 2.0 GPA, with no multiple W, WF or WU grades in any courses).

If a student fails to meet any of the above requirements, he/she will be required to withdraw from the HSA curriculum.

Articulation Agreements

The program has an articulation agreement with the AS in Public Health from BMCC and an option to earn a graduate degree from CUNY School of Public Health with one additional year of full-time study.

Please refer to the college website to see the full text of the agreements.

Distance Learning Information

The AS in Health Sciences has been approved by NYSED and MSCHE to be offered as a fully online program.

This degree program does not accept international students needing an F-1 visa, because we cannot guarantee that students will be able satisfy the Department of Homeland Security requirement that students maintain their full-time status and do not take more than 3 credits online each semester (dhs.gov). A significant component of this program is offered online.

Before applying, an international applicant who wishes to study at City Tech under an F-1 visa should email Vanessa Villaneuva, VVillaneuva@citytech.cuny.edu. 

Advisement Information

Please consult the department website for full details.