
Paul Saldana, M.B.A.
School of Business
Explore Business Administration: Healthcare Administration, B.A.
Healthcare Administration is where healthcare meets business. At Fresno Pacific, you’ll not only broaden your academic foundation, you’ll gain specialized skill, like how to effectively communicate across the complex healthcare landscape.
Whether you’re seeking to work in a private doctor’s office or a corporate medical setting, courses will prepare you to develop, plan, and manage operations and services within the healthcare industry.
Instruction from faculty with decades of experience within the healthcare field includes management, resource allocation, policy-making, and healthcare laws and regulations.
Through the study of healthcare management, you’ll be prepared to successfully enter this growing field equipped with the skills to effectively enhance organizational leadership within the healthcare field.
Program Director: Barbara Maselli, Ph.D.
A program that prepares individuals to develop, plan and manage health care operations and services within health care facilities and across health care systems. Includes instruction in planning, leadership, resource development, operation and management, resource allocation and policy, ethics, law, regulations and applications to specific types of health care services.
The Bachelor of Arts in Healthcare Administration degree prepares students to serve as independent mid-level managers within the health care industry. It develops students’ cross-cultural competencies, increases their investigative and problem-solving skills, improves their ability to discern appropriate and ethics-based decision-making, and enhances their personal effectiveness with diverse constituents across a variety of ancillary health care professions. The degree prepares students, through engaging courses and applied project experiences, to serve as professional administrators in health care-industry settings.
Admissions criteria follow FPU’s degree completion standards, with special attention to prerequisite preparation.
North Fresno, Visalia Campuses and Online
This is a scheduled, 18-month cohort program.
Students must earn a C- or higher to receive credit for their healthcare administration program courses. Exceptions: Students may receive credit for BIB 314 and BIB 446, as well as any other general education or elective course with a D-.
BA Healthcare Administration (DC)
For more information on General Education requirements, please see: General Education: Degree Completion Students
Required for Healthcare Administration majors:
The following units must be earned at Fresno Pacific University:
Elective units as needed to meet the Bachelor of Arts minimum. This requirement may also be met through allowable college coursework, advanced placement exams, the College Level Examination Program, international baccalaureate exams, and military or ACE credit.
You already have a lot going on in your life, which is why our degree completion programs are designed to meet you where you are. You'll be surrounded by other students who will support and encourage you, by faculty mentors who are invested in your success, by opportunities to connect what you learn in the classroom to the real world, and by connections to the employers who will help you move forward in your career.
Public Health Services (AS-T) to Healthcare Administration, B.A.
BA courses fulfilled through ADT:
ADT Guarantee is the completion of BA/BS degree in 68 units.
The following guidelines are used when considering transfer credit:
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*Transfer Agreements are only a tool. Transfer work is not considered official until it has been evaluated by the FPU Registrar’s Office.
To reenter into the Degree Completion program within 5 years of last enrollment, the student will need to complete the Degree Completion Re-admission Form. An academic advisor will determine if the student may reenter and if any conditions apply for readmission. The student will be charged at the current tuition rate for any course repeated.
*Note: If student is readmitting after 5 years of last enrollment, the student will need to refer to “First Steps to Admission".
The non-matriculated application is for people who are interested in taking baccalaureate classes through the Degree Completion program, but are not seeking to be admitted into that program. Students must complete this Non-matriculated Application Form only once in order to be qualified to take courses. Applicants must also meet the two-year post-secondary experience requirement to take these courses. Financial Aid is not available, and the course limit is six units per semester with a limit of two semesters total.
For more information, or for help filling out this application, please contact Graduate and Degree Completion Admissions at (559) 453-3690.
FPU Degree Completion program guarantees you can complete your degree in just two years. If you meet the qualification requirements, fulfill your responsibilities under the program, and are unable to complete your major in a 2-yr. period, FPU will assume all additional tuition costs needed to complete your undergraduate degree.
FPU guarantees a student with an Associate Degree for Transfer (ADT) from the California Community College system, can complete their degree in just two years. If a student meets the qualification requirements, fulfills the responsibilities under the program, and are unable to complete their major in a 2-year period, FPU will assume all additional tuition costs needed to complete their undergraduate degree at FPU.
State authorization is a federal requirement in the HigherEducation Act that requires institutions to be authorized in the state in which online programs are offered. Fresno Pacific University works regularly with individual state authorization agencies to meet each state's requirements. Currently, Fresno Pacific University has received authorization to offer online degree programs in all but six states: Georgia, Michigan, New York, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.
For the latest updates on the status of FPU's authorization in your state, contact your FPU Admissions representative.
The below listed prices reflect the current and upcoming Fall and Spring semesters and do not include any financial aid. Paying for college can be an overwhelming step in education your journey. We can help you find all the possible opportunities to reduce your out of pocket costs.
Tuition per Unit | Amount |
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SW, ECD, LA, BM, OL, EMGT, PMGT, HCA | $550 |
RN to BSN, CIS, CRIM, CML | $525 |
General Ed and Electives | $550 |
Other Costs | Amount |
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Student services fee (per semester) | $100 |
Tuition per Unit | Amount |
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SW, ECD, LA, BM, OL, EMGT, PMGT | $530 |
HCA, RN to BSN, CIS, CRIM, CML | $505 |
General Ed and Electives | $530 |
Other Costs | Amount |
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Student services fee (per semester) | $100 |
* This is an estimate. Costs subject to change. Cost of attendance figures are used for budgeting purposes only and represent an estimate of projected tuition and fees for the coming academic year. Actual tuition rates are approved by the Board of Trustees and may vary.
Financial aid can refer to scholarships, grants and loans, which are available to you from the government, the university or outside sources. Aid types vary depending on the type of student you are.
Alexandra Green
The grants, the academic awards, the transfer scholarship – all of it makes it so much more affordable to attend FPU. I know that school isn’t cheap for anyone, but FPU helped me realize that I could actually come to this school because they were going to help me so much financially.
Graduates are prepared for work as independent, mid-level managers within the healthcare industry, including hospitals, private groups and doctors’ offices.
The staff in our Career Development and Experiential Learning Center are here to help you prepare to enter the working world. Whether your a freshman or an FPU alum, there are a number of resources and trainings offered to help you find the internship and job you’re looking for.