Healthcare Business Management Certificate

Healthcare Business Management Certificate

The Healthcare Business Management Certificate allows students to develop health industry-specific knowledge, positioning them for managerial careers in a broad range of healthcare and related organizations.

The Healthcare Business Management certificate is a customized program available to students in the Eller College and Zuckerman College of Public Health Majors only. Healthcare is interdisciplinary and students may be able to find courses offered through other Colleges on campus to provide other perspectives on Healthcare.

  • Available to students majoring in the Eller College or majoring in the Zuckerman College of Public Health
  • Available to Main Campus students only
  • Students must have a minimum GPA of a 2.0 to declare the certificate
  • Recommended to complete certificate in junior and senior year 

Healthcare Business Management Coursework

The certificate requires 12 units total

Students must complete 1 course (3 units) from the following options:

  • MGMT 438 Health Care Organizations and Management
    Prerequisite: none
  • PHPM 310 Healthcare in the US
    Prerequisite: none

Students must complete 3 courses (9 units)  course from the following options:

  • ACCT 440 Financial and Managerial Accounting in Healthcare 
    Prerequisites: ACCT 200 and ACCT 210
  • ECON 422 Introduction to Health Economics 
    Prerequisite: ECON 300 or ECON 361
  • ECON 427 Current Topics in Healthcare Economics and Policy 
    Prerequisite: ECON 300 or ECON 361
  • GHI 414 Intercultural Communication for Health Sciences
    Prerequisite: none
  • MGMT 438 Healthcare Organization and Management  
    Prerequisite: none
  • MGMT/ ENTR 448 Healthcare Entrepreneurship 
    Prerequisite: none
  • MKTG /PHPM 458 Healthcare Marketing 
    Prerequisite: none
  • MIS 406 Healthcare Information Systems 
    Prerequisite: none
  • PHP 305 Population Health in the Digital Age
    Prerequisite: none
  • PHPM 310 Health Care in the US
    Prerequisite: none
  • PHP 438 Health Profession Finance
    Prerequisite: Major in Health Sciences (Public Health, Nursing, Pharmacy or Medicine)
  • PHPM 407 Health Care Economics and Policy
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor


For questions, please contact Elise Romero emb@arizona.edu.


Registration will open in Fall 2025