There’s an endless list of ways that we’ve been collaborating with Goshen College. It’s not often that you have a health system and a college directly across the street from one another. That allows us to be efficient and capitalize on the resources that we each have.
Healthcare Management
Minor
Add the skills every health system runs on
Healthcare is one of the largest employers on earth, and someone has to run it. That someone can be you.
The Healthcare Management minor at Goshen College pairs real business management, people, operations, and marketing, with public health: how health systems work, how policy is made, and how care is delivered around the world.
Every country has hospitals, clinics, insurers, and health programs, and all of them need people who can manage budgets, teams, and operations without losing sight of the patient. It’s a practical, portable edge you can carry into almost any career, and almost any country.
What you’ll study
- Manage People & Operations: Lead the teams and systems that keep care running, in People & Culture Management and Operations Management.
- Marketing & Public Health: Reach the people who need care, and learn the field itself, in Marketing Management and Introduction to Public Health.
- Policy & Global Health: See the rules and realities care runs inside, in Public Health Policy & Administration and Perspectives in Global Health.
View the complete program requirements in our catalog.
Where business meets care
The minor is built where management and health actually meet. You learn how to run teams and systems, and how to reach the people with a service is meant to help. Then you are shown the rules, funding, and worldwide realities those systems operate inside.
It’s the kind of practical fluency that strengthens whatever you already do, in a hospital, a clinic, a nonprofit, an insurer, or your own plans for life after graduation.
Julie Crossley
chief nursing officer at Goshen Health
What it costs, and the aid behind it
Scholarships make up a large portion of Goshen financial aid packages, which average almost $26,000 per student, not counting work-study or loans. As students in a business program, accounting majors may also qualify for endowed awards including the Sauder Scholarship and the Gorsline Scholarship. Run the net price calculator to see your own number, then talk it through with the financial aid office when you are ready to take the next step.
Common questions about the healthcare management minor
The 18-credit minor combines three business courses, People & Culture Management (BUS 315), Marketing Management (BUS 316), and Operations Management (BUS 318), with three public health courses: Introduction to Public Health (PUBH 200), Public Health Policy & Administration (PUBH 310), and Perspectives in Global Health (PUBH 320).
You’ll be able to manage the people, operations, and marketing that keep a healthcare organization running, and understand how public health systems, policy, and global health shape the care it delivers. In short, you’ll speak both languages, business and health, that hospitals, clinics, and health programs depend on.
Especially well with exercise science, public health, nursing, biology, sport management, and business, but it strengthens almost any major. Wherever your field touches clinics, wellness, insurance, or health programs, this minor adds the management and public-health side that turns good intentions into organizations that actually run.
Two things. The minor mirrors the Healthcare Management concentration in the Business major, so the same six courses apply. And like every business minor at Goshen, you must earn a grade of C- or higher in each course required for the minor. Your advisor can help you map it out.
Meet the Faculty
Patrick Farran
Associate Professor of Business
Jason Harrison
Assistant Professor of Business
Andrew Hartzler
Professor of Accounting
Ready to get started?
Michelle Horning
Professor of Accounting
Program Director
Department ChairJerrell Richer
Professor of Economics
Carl Kreider Chair and Co-Director of Global EngagementPatrick Farran
Associate Professor of Business
Alysha Liljeqvist
Associate Professor of Business
Andrew Hartzler
Professor of Accounting
Jason Harrison
Assistant Professor of Business
Jorge Montenegro Martinez
Assistant Professor of Business
Eyob Zeleke
Assistant Professor of Information Technology
