Healthcare Policy and Management

This degree accommodates students with diverse interests in healthcare while supporting their entry from a variety of backgrounds—high school, associate-level degrees, and career paths transferrable to healthcare operations such as hospitality, business, and law. It prepares students with minimal or no healthcare experience to enter a robust labor market in healthcare planning, operations policy and management, as well as the ability to pursue related graduate studies.

Learning Outcomes

The ability to:

1. Analyze policies, economic trends, and determinants of health to strategically plan health services delivery.

2. Plan and organize resources essential for the efficient operation and the equitable delivery of health services.

3. Develop healthcare financial management plans applicable to the healthcare business setting.

4. Use industry standard health technology applications for managing administrative and clinical information.

5. Apply computational methods to analyze and improve processes in healthcare organizations and systems.

6. Integrate policy, management, and finance in applied administrative settings.

Progression Requirements

For progression in and graduation from the curriculum, students:

• Must maintain an overall 2.0 GPA.

• Must receive a minimum grade of “C” in each core upper-level course (3xxx plus) designated with the prefix HSCI or HSA.

• No HSCI or HSA upper-level course (3xxx plus) may be repeated more than once.

Students who do not meet the above requirements will be withdrawn from the Healthcare Policy and Management program.

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.