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Certificate in Healthcare Management

Kaplan - University of Essex Online, United Kingdom

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Next enrollment cycle

August 2024

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Total Course Fee

USD 8,572

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  • 16 Months
  • Online
  • Undergraduate
  • Certificate
  • Up to 10% scholarship
Created by subject experts and industry leaders, our CertHE Healthcare Management gives you in-depth knowledge and skills directly applicable to your workplace; as well as an understanding of leadership and managerial approaches to team and organisational development across a variety of healthcare contexts.
  • Throughout this online programme, you’ll gain awareness of topical healthcare subjects whilst starting to build links with contemporary healthcare problems and their interaction with business and management. You’ll also gain a fundamental understanding of management topics including finance, human resource management and business management.
  • You will learn to recognise the key contemporary challenges associated with healthcare management, as well as how to communicate your ideas both orally and in the context of a written presentation.

Throughout this course, you’ll explore a broad range of topics including:

  • The principles of management in delivering healthcare services.
  • Exploring the factors that determine individual, group and population level health outcomes.
  • The importance of leadership and teamwork in theory and practice.
  • Understanding the global burden of disease.
  • Evaluating your academic, personal and professional skills.
  • Upon completion of your CertHE Healthcare Management, we offer the opportunity for you to progress on to study for a full Bachelors degree (360 credits).

Enrollment Cycles

  • August 2024
  • October 2024
  • We believe that education should be accessible for everyone. That’s why we offer an open entry route – meaning you don’t need any prior academic or work experience in order to start studying with us. You will also need to meet our English language requirements.
  • You will need to pass your first assignment set within the first three weeks of the course in order to continue with your studies.

English language requirements

  • As our courses are delivered in English, a high proficiency with English is required. If English is not your first language, your English ability should be equivalent to an IELTS (Academic) score of 6.0.
  • Don’t worry if you don’t hold an IELTS or equivalent qualification – we offer a free online English test to assess your proficiency.
  • You don’t need to prove your English ability if you are a national of, or have completed a qualification equivalent to a UK degree
  • The CertHE Healthcare Management is made up of the following modules and, upon completion, is equal to a total of 120 credits.

Level 4 modules:

  • Introduction to Healthcare Management (15 credits)
  • Global Health (15 credits)
  • Business and Management Skills (15 credits)
  • Introduction to Finance (15 credits)
  • Human Resource Management (15 credits)
  • Health, Society & Public Policy (15 credits)
  • Personal and Professional Development 1 (30 credits)
  • Upon completion of your CertHE Healthcare Management, we offer the opportunity for you to progress on to study for a full Bachelors degree (360 credits).

Full tuition fee: £6,167 (2020-21 and 2021-22)
Monthly tuition fee: £385 

Full payment discount

  • When paying for your undergraduate or postgraduate course up-front, we’ll offer you a discount of 10% for students starting their course in the 2020-21 academic year, and 5% for students starting their course in the 2021-22 academic year.

Alumni discount

  • If you are a previous graduate with the University of Essex or University of Essex Online, we’ll award you a 10% alumni discount on your postgraduate tuition fees when you continue your studies to Masters level.
  • This is only applicable to students studying online and does not apply to students studying on campus.
  • The Alumni discount cannot be used in combination with the International scholarship.

Scholarships

  • International scholarship (all courses)
  • International students residing in specific regions outside of the UK may be eligible for a partial scholarship for our undergraduate and postgraduate online courses.

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