Are you interested in learning what it takes to run a health care delivery system? If so, this is the minor for you. You’ll learn what top thought leaders say about key aspects of administration within today’s health systems. This minor is easy to customize to your specific interests. You’ll take two required health administration courses, then you’ll choose three electives from courses that include health care management, policy, marketing, legal issues, human resources, and health information technology.
I feel like it is important to understand how health care facilities run, and how the health system works in order to be a good nurse.
Braxton Gray, Nursing Student
I chose to minor in health administration because I decided that I wanted to build on my Health Science major and gain valuable health administration skills that would help me get into a Master’s in Health Administration program after graduation.
Kayla Saunders, Health Sciences Student
Eligibility
Students enrolled in baccalaureate programs at Indiana University who are in good academic standing are eligible.
The health administration minor is a great fit for students majoring in:
Pre-Medicine
Pre-Dentistry
Health Sciences
Nursing
Social Work
Dental Hygiene or Dental Technology
Medical Imaging or Sonography
Public health students majoring in health services management are not eligible for the health administration minor.
Students who successfully complete the requirements for the minor with a grade of "C" or better in all courses credited to the minor will have the minor conferred at time of graduation.
Minor requirements
Take two courses for 6 credits:
PBHL H120 Health Care Delivery in the US
PBHL H320 Health Systems Administration
Choose three elective courses for 9 credits:
PBHL H375 Management of Health Services Organizations
PBHL H411 Chronic and Long Term Care Administration
PBHL H420 Health Policy
PBHL H432 Health Care Marketing
PBHL H441 Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration
PBHL H330 Global Public Health
PBHL H310 Lean in Healthcare
PBHL H325 Health Information Technology, Management and Policy
PBHL H346 Organizational Behavior and HR Management in Healthcare
PBHL H345 Operations Management and Quality Improvement in Health Organizations
PBHL H305 Medical Group Management
PBHL H315 High Risk Health Behaviors and Harm Reduction
Graduated: 2018 Major: Business Minor: Health Administration
Current Title: Human Resources Manager Current Employer: CommuniCare Family of Companies Industry: Long-Term Care/Post-Acute Care
I was always interested in becoming part of the health care world. I also wanted to help people.
The minor fit my major well. I ultimately want to own my own healthcare business. I learned about important business principals in my major and learned all about health care and how it works in my minor.
I do everything human resources related in my company. CommuniCare is one of the largest providers of post-acute care in the nation. The company has long-term care centers, assisted living communities, independent rehabilitation centers, skills nursing rehabilitation centers and long-term acute care hospitals under its umbrella. I hire employees, work on benefits, focus on employee retention, manage payroll, and manage anything else that has a human resources component to it.
I started out as a Human Resources Generalist and am now a Human Resources Manager at the same company.
I learned about health care operations and terminology in the Health Administration Minor. This knowledge helps me do my job better.
Ready to get started?
Contact your academic advisor to declare the Health Administration Minor.
