About the Health Administration Degree Course

As a Health Administrator, you will be able to strategically plan, organize, lead, and evaluate public and private health organizations, such as clinics, hospitals, laboratories, and insurance companies, among others.

We prepare you to make organizational changes that generate benefits for users, workers, and society as a whole. You will use state-of-the-art technology, innovative entrepreneurial strategies, and research results to make high-stakes decisions with a strong emphasis on ethics and social responsibility.

 Degree course: Health Administration


Site: Central campus

Duration: 10 semesters (5 years)


Degree earned: Bachelor’s Degree in Health Administration

Our Testimonials

Arthur Dávila

Graduate

The Health Administration degree course allowed me to develop key skills in planning, management, leadership, and strategic evaluation of public and private health organizations. As a graduate, I can say that I am ready to address and solve organizational problems while ethically applying modern principles, methodologies, and management tools, as well as to face the challenges of the working world. Cayetano definitely changed my life.

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Program Curriculum

SEMESTER
1

Curriculum: First Year

  • Communication and Writing I
  • Strategies for autonomous learning
  • Philosophy
  • Biological and Environmental Basis of Health
  • Elementary Mathematics
  • Social Sciences

SEMESTER
2

Curriculum: First Year

  • Basic Health Care Techniques
  • Organizational and Administrative Theories
  • Introduction to Public Health and Global Health
  • Psychology
  • Communication and Writing II
  • Informatics
  • Peruvian Reality, Citizenship, and Globalization

SEMESTER
3

Curriculum: Second Year

  • Mandatory Complementary Subject: English – Beginner Level
  • Complementary Activity
  • Statistics
  • Psychology I
  • Society, Culture, and Health Organizations
  • Management Accounting
  • Health Administrative Practice I
  • Law, Legislation and Health

SEMESTER
4

Curriculum: Second Year

  • Foundations of Human Body Functioning
  • Mandatory Complementary Course: English – Beginner Level
  • Health Cost and Budget Management
  • Microeconomics
  • Leadership
  • Demographics
  • Epidemiology

SEMESTER
5

Curriculum: Third Year

  • Health Information Management
  • Mandatory Complementary Course: English – Pre-Intermediate Level
  • Complementary Activities
  • Peruvian History and Reality in Health and Development
  • Macroeconomics
  • Operations and Logistics Organization
  • Human Resources Management
  • Occupational Health

SEMESTER
6

Curriculum: Third Year

  • Health and Social Development Policies
  • Organizational Social Responsibility
  • Research I
  • Financial Administration
  • Mandatory Complementary Course: English – Intermediate Level
  • Strategic Planning
  • Health Economics

SEMESTER
7

Curriculum: Fourth Year

  • Management of Medicines, Equipment, and Medical Supplies
  • Healthcare Organization Quality Management
  • Research II
  • Health Finance
  • Healthcare Marketing
  • Elective Course I

SEMESTER
8

Curriculum: Fourth Year

  • Health Insurance
  • Public Health Management
  • Business Plan I
  • Health System
  • Health Organization Management
  • Elective Course II

SEEMSTER
9

Curriculum: Fifth Year

  • Business Plan II
  • Health Auditing
  • Health Management Control
  • Complementary Activity
  • Externship I

SEMESTER
10

Curriculum: Fifth Year

  • Externship II

*Curriculum subject to modifications as part of the curriculum update process.

Why choose us?

Practical and experiential courses

Experience management and administration in healthcare institutions right from the first year.

Research

  • Be part of national and international research teams.

Internships

You will be able to be part of student exchange and internship programs at prestigious national and international universities.

Outstanding Teaching Staff

Our teaching staff and researchers have extensive experience in the management of health organizations. Some of them have even held the position of Minister of Health of Peru and key international positions at the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization

High Employability

96% of our graduates are working (FASPA Alumni Employability Survey, April 2018).

University Consortium

You can take courses at the consortium universities: Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, University of Lima, and University of the Pacific.

Generic Competencies of Graduate

Graduates integrate different types of thinking (scientific, logical, critical, systemic, and innovative) for the solution of complex problems through the mastery of cognitive skills such as logical reasoning in challenging situations. They are prepared to address present and future challenges in the exercise of their profession and to tackle the transformation of the environment as committed citizens 

Graduates use verbal and non-verbal language to interact effectively in various inclusive, multicultural, and multilingual contexts. Also, they make conscious use of information and communication technologies. They join collaborative work teams to achieve common goals in multicultural, academic, and professional contexts. Moreover, they assume leadership roles with responsibility and respect for other people’s views.

Graduates act ethically and responsibly in different academic, professional practice, and research contexts. They carry out their work honestly, rigorously, and coherently in terms of their values: tolerance, openness, responsibility, environmental awareness, respect, democratic participation, and a sense of belonging.

Graduates creatively propose innovative solutions to solve a situation or problem; they demonstrate initiative and take action in improving their environments within the framework of values consistent with sustainable development: tolerance, openness, responsibility, environmental awareness, respect, democratic participation, and a sense of belonging.

Work Opportunities

Graduates generate changes in the management of clinics and hospitals.

They take their knowledge to local and multinational organizations involved in health programs.

They promote efficient development in corporate social responsibility.

They venture into the private sector: insurance companies, and laboratories run by health care providers.

They develop entrepreneurial ventures with their own consulting and advisory firm.

They acquire new knowledge by participating in national and international research projects.

International Agreements

Latin America

Argentina

  • Universidad de Morón
  • Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Brazil

  • Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais
  • Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
  • Universidad do Sagrado Coracao
  • Universidade do Vale do Paraíba (Univap)

Chile

  • Universidad de Concepción
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Universidad Austral de Chile

Colombia

  • Universidad Ces, Medellín
  • Universidad del Valle

Mexico

  • Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

Europe

spain

Spain

  • Instituto Superior de Estudios Psicológicos
  • Universidad de Alcalá
  • Universidad Católica de Valencia, San Vicente Martí
  • Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche
  • Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Universidad de Almería
  • Universidad Jaume I

France

  • Universidad Sorbonne Nouvelle

North America

USA

  • Concordia University (Wisconsin)
  • Sam Houston State University

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