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Accreditation
American InterContinental University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award Associates, Bachelors and Masters Degrees.
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Bachelor's of Business Administration / Healthcare Management
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The BBA degree completion program with a concentration in Healthcare Management combines a core education in business and focuses on critical topics in healthcare management.
The degree is valuable for workers of industries including healthcare managers, nurses, and support staff who wish to move ahead in their profession.
The courses required to complete the BBA degree with a concentration in Healthcare Management include:
- The Healthcare Industry
Learn about a comprehensive overview of the healthcare industry including healthcare organizations and structures, public policy makers, and healthcare operations. Emphasis is placed on rapid changes in healthcare delivery systems as a response to increased healthcare costs, aging of the population, advanced medical science and technology, changing disease patterns, consumer demands, and distribution and use of the healthcare workforce.
- The Ethical and Legal Aspects of Healthcare
This course provides a working knowledge of law and ethics in a wide variety of healthcare topics, enabling students to deal with common legal and practical problems facing patients, their families, practitioners, care givers, and society within the healthcare industry.
- Healthcare Management
This course explores management issues in healthcare such as the environment of care, performance improvement, risk assessment, and managing diverse workforces in healthcare.
- Decision Making
Decision making is the process of selecting an option from among a set of alternatives. It is an intregal part of our everyday lives as well as the professional world.
- Economics in a Global Environment
This course covers the core material of microeconomics and macroeconomics and its application to real-world economic issues.
- Concepts in Organizational Behavior
This course provides theoretical and practical knowledge for understanding topics such as motivation, leadership, managerial decision-making, group processess, and conflict resolution.
- Statistical Analysis
In this course, students learn the fundamentals of probability and statistics, and their applications in business decision making.
- Managerial Accounting and Organizational Controls
This course provides students with an understanding of the role of accounting information in support of decision making and planning. Students learn accounting methods for planning and controlling operations through budgets, responsibility centers, and cost management.
- Financial Management
Examines the key components of financial decision making: valuation and risk management. Students will examine the implications of forecasting, capital budgeting, working capital management, and project risk management.
- Global Strategic Management
Examines strategic management from a global perspective. Students will analyze major strategic tasks, such as setting strategic vision and goals; and formulating, implementing, and evaluating strategy and tactics.
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Education Resources
Earn Your Degree Online
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Facts & Info
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Institutional Accrediting Agency:
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
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Address:
5550 Prairie Stone Parkway Suite 400
Hoffman Estates, IL 60192
US
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Institution Type:
Private, for-profit, Higher Education
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Delivery Format:
Our virtual campus provides students with a rich learning environment. Classes are delivered in a multi-media format. You'll have access to the Virtual campus 24 hours a day whether you choose to pursue your studies while traveling, at work, or at home.
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Technical Requirements:
AIU Online can check your computer remotely to ensure you have all the plug-ins needed.
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Geographic Restrictions:
None.
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On-Campus Requirement:
None.
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Calendar Type:
Programs begin every 5 weeks.
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