Dec 08, 2024  
USC Catalogue 2024-2025 
    
USC Catalogue 2024-2025

Master of Health Administration/Master of Science in Gerontology (MHA/MS)


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Gerontology and health administration students can specialize in health care administration (profit and nonprofit) through the dual degree with the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and the USC Price School of Public Policy’s Health Administration Program. Students in the dual degree program must be admitted by both academic units and complete 78 units of post-graduate academic work.

Total units: 36


Total units: 42


Additional Requirements


Statistics: The statistics requirement for dual degree students is the same as those that apply to the Master of Health Administration .

Program Adaptation: The USC Davis School of Gerontology will waive GERO 589  because students enrolled in this program will have a primary professional focus in health administration.

Students enrolled in the dual degree are not required to take PPDE 613  (as opposed to the stand alone MHA degree students) because they develop the necessary proficiencies related to their career goals in long term care administration through other courses such as GERO 550 , GERO 591  and GERO 593 . In addition, PPD 601  is required for the dual degree (and not the stand alone MHA program) because most of these students will work in long-term care facilities and this course is critical for success in that market.

Students in the MHA stand alone program are required to complete a 1,000 hour residency at a health care organization, generally during the second year of study. Students in the dual degree program may be waived from this requirement with enrollment in GERO 591  which is a supervised experiential learning experience. Student in this situation may then waive PPD 512  and will take 2 units of Price electives for this dual degree.

Any course substitutions are done by petition on an individual basis and should be part of a carefully developed course of study. The USC Price School of Public Policy should be consulted concerning this program of study.

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