Prospects with the MBA

In the MBA course of studies "Health Care Management" you acquire expertise and skills which you as a manager in healthcare need more than ever.  The study programme puts you in a position to understand and reconstruct managerial relationships in the special context of healthcare, as wells as to make well-founded decisions.  Thereby, you acquire the qualifications which distinguish you as a manger, and which can decisively advance your professional career.

Healthcare is one of the largest branches of the German economy.  Driven by advances in medicine, demographic change, and the increased readiness of patients to pay for medical goods and services themselves, the health market will remain on a course of growth in the future.

Simultaneously, healthcare is shaped by dramatic change.  Competitive-orientation will increase in all sectors.  Through the introduction of DRG in the hospitals sector, profound processes of change have already been observed for quite some time.  Hospitals must also position themselves for strategic diversification in the future.

Likewise, the out-patient sector of medical service provision is under strong pressure to change.  Reforms in the fee-system remain the order of the day, and quality-oriented fees will be a theme in the future.  Processes of change in other sectors are to be seen in the same way.  At the same time, pharmacies, pharmaceutical and medical-technical businesses, or the IT-branches in healthcare, amongst other things, are to be remembered.

These changes entail significant opportunities for your personal development in healthcare institutions and business enterprises.  If you work in healthcare, you should distinctly identify and exploit these opportunities.  To this end, it is necessary to have well-founded knowledge in the areas of business administration and management in general, as well as in the special context of healthcare.

Our partners, in whose modern premises in Düsseldorf the course of studies are completed, stand for highly qualified further education in healthcare: the healthcare academy e.V. is an initiative of the German Chamber of Physicians (BÄK), the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV), and the German Pharmacists and Doctors Bank (apoBank).  The health care academy cooperates with the Chamber of Physicians  of North Rhine-Westphalia (KVNo) and the Association of Private Physicians Clearing Centers (PVS).  It is an association in the register of associations registered with the district court Düsseldorf.

The Master of Business Administration degree (MBA) is, as with all courses of study offered by the Düsseldorf Business School, conferred by the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf.