Business Administration: Health

• The programme tailored for the health sector is unique for the North of the Netherlands. Variations in trajectory are being offered in the programme to fit your needs and career aspirations, and to equip you with the relevant competences to become an in-demand professional who can combine the analysis of hard evidence with softer insights and skills.

• Joining the Health profile means you will be part of our unique and diverse learning community. Our students have backgrounds ranging from business and economics to medicine and facility management. This diversity prepares you for the reality of the healthcare workplace.
• It is important to put into practice what you study. You will engage in a stakeholder roleplay or in teamwork on a practitioner's real-time challenge.
• Healthcare needs professionals who can build bridges between disciplines. That is why you have the chance to take a course taught by the UMCG, or by the faculty of spatial sciences.
• You can benefit from our lively health research community that is well-connected with health organizations in the Northern Netherlands such as the UMCG Groningen and Wilhelmina hospital, but also insurers such as Menzis and De Friesland, technology suppliers, or pharmaceutical companies.
• Our master community organizes activities with practitioners and also manages a LinkedIn group in which you can connect to our graduates.
• To broaden your scope, you may integrate a Focus Area in Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence or Future Prosperity and Sustainability to expand your knowledge on topics such as digital transformation and learn about how you can contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
• The programme has been internationally accredited by the AACSB and EQUIS, ensuring a high-quality education, which only 1% of universities reach worldwide.

You have the opportunity to do a study exchange with the University of Gent, in Belgium. You will study the second semester in Gent and write your master's thesis on one of their research projects co-supervised by a lecturer from Groningen. There are two positions available for students. For more information, please contact Ineke van Est at r.van.est rug.nl.

Across Europe, healthcare expenditures are high and health services are still growing as an employment sector. Therefore, managerial knowledge is in high demand to organize all the disciplines and stakeholders involved and motivate them into a coordinated effort. As a graduate of MSc BA Health, you will have the analytic and stakeholder management skills crucial in diagnosing and intervening in the organization of care and issuing advice about its economic environment.

Future employment opportunities may include healthcare organizations such as hospitals and homecare organizations, (inter-)national pharmaceutical companies, consultancy agencies, insurance companies, (semi-)governmental organizations, health technology suppliers, and research institutes.

Our education is research-driven, leading to fresh insights being fed into the courses. An analytical, critical mind and problem-solving capabilities are important qualities in any career our students aspire to. To develop such qualities, we work with lecturers who are active in research and discuss academic research right from the start of the degree programme.

In doing so, clear links with professional practices are made. Through case assignments, guest lectures, and other activities, students apply what they learn to practical healthcare management and health economics problems. As such, you engage in your development as a future professional.

In collaboration with external partners, the faculty conducts research on topical issues such as improving patient logistics; the effectiveness of organizational interventions; implementation and adoption of technological and managerial innovations; continuous quality improvement in healthcare; buyer/supplier relationships between insurance companies and healthcare providers; reducing health inequalities; economic evaluation of innovations or treatments; prevention management issues considering early life conditions and later-life health.

Much of this research is conducted in the Centre of Expertise Healthwise, providing students with numerous links to the outside world. Moreover, many of the lecturers participate in the Aletta School of Public Health, a large multidisciplinary research community .