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Professional Certificates

Professional Certificates

Earn nine graduate credits toward your MHA with a fully online certificate in advanced leadership and strategic management for healthcare professionals.
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Fully Online

No required in-person meetings

Asynchronous

Designed for working professionals

Nine Credits

Three graduate-level courses

MHA Pathway

Credits may apply toward HPU’s MHA

Lead With Greater Confidence and Strategic Insight

High Point University’s Certificate in Advanced Leadership and Strategic Management for Healthcare Professionals develops the capabilities healthcare leaders need to guide teams, navigate change, make informed decisions, and support organizational performance.

The focused curriculum offers an accessible way to strengthen your leadership practice without immediately committing to a full graduate degree.

 

Is This Certificate Right for You?

  • Emerging and current healthcare leaders
  • Clinicians moving into supervisory or administrative roles
  • Professionals preparing for greater organizational responsibility
  • Future MHA students ready to begin graduate coursework

Three Courses. Skills You Can Put to Work.

MHA 5010: Leading With Impact

Explore leadership practices, healthcare trends, organizational culture, innovation, strategy execution, team development, and effective communication.

MHA 5014: Advanced Leadership Skills

Strengthen your ability to manage conflict, lead change, make ethical decisions, and remain resilient and adaptable in complex environments.

MHA 5016: Strategic Management in Healthcare Organizations

Apply strategic thinking to market analysis, organizational planning, change implementation, and performance measurement.

Develop Capabilities That Matter in Healthcare

  • Lead teams and support healthy organizational cultures
  • Navigate conflict and crucial conversations
  • Guide organizational change
  • Make ethical and strategic decisions
  • Evaluate markets and organizational priorities
  • Translate strategy into measurable action

 

Build Toward Your Master of Healthcare Administration

Build Toward Your Master of Healthcare Administration

The nine graduate credits earned through the certificate may be applied toward High Point University’s online Master of Healthcare Administration.
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Application Requirements

Non-degree applicants must submit:

  • Graduate application
  • Official transcripts from every college or university attended, including High Point University
  • Current résumé
  • Personal statement addressing the leadership skills most important to your professional goals
  • One professional reference using the required form
  • Any additional materials required by the MHA program as outlined in the Graduate School Bulletin

Transfer credit from another transcript is not accepted.

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Published Tuition

$9,180 for nine credits at the currently published rate of $1,020 per credit.

Tuition rates are subject to change. The final cost will reflect the prevailing rate at the time of enrollment.

The certificate is delivered entirely online, with no required in-person meetings, and all coursework is completed asynchronously.