Goals and Benefits

This study program aims to convey management training in the health care sector on an academic basis. This includes the necessary understanding of the health care market, analytical skills, social competences, controlling, marketing, strategic and operative health care management, system comparisons in the health care sector, and further topics.

An important goal of the MBA study program is to improve the leadership competence of executive staff members of public and private health care institutions and of the pharmaceutical and medical-technical industry. It also aims to support top executives in their decision-making roles.

MBA Health Care Management is international:

• international course venues
• internationally renowned speakers
• international group of course participants
• internationally relevant issues

Venues

The MBA study program takes place at three international venues: Salzburg, Marburg, Trier, and Toronto. These unique locations offer great infrastructure with modern classrooms. They are part of an internationally-oriented concept. Seven modules are in German, the Toronto module is taught in English.

Target groups:

• Doctors seeking competence in management
• People either working in the healthcare sector, the pharmaceutical industry, or in the medical-technical area, or people who wish to work in these areas or seek to qualify themselves for a leading position via the knowledge transfer offered in the MBA-HCM program
• Alumni of corresponding fields and branches of study (or comparable qualification) seeking to gain high-quality further training in the health care sector

Application criteria:

Academic degree which qualifies for a position in a healthcare institution, with occupational activity in this area, OR a qualification comparable to an academic degree (e.g. at least 5 years of experience in a responsible, leading position in the health care sector).

At a glance:

• Start: 15th October 2012
• Duration: 4 semesters, 8 modules of 8 or 10 days each
• Venues: Salzburg (Austria), Marburg and Trier (Germany), Washington D.C.(USA)
• Number of participants: max. 30
• Costs:  € 25,200.-
•  Degree: Exec. MBA in Health Care Management (awarded by the University of Salzburg)

Accredited by FIBAA
(Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation)
International Executive MBA Health Care Management

Course director:
Prof. Dr. Walter Scherrer

Academic Board:
HR Prim. Priv.-Doz. Dr. Reinhold Fartacek, MBA
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Goldschmidt
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Konrad Grillberger
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Lingenfelder

Project manager:
Dr. Eva Stainer

Enrolment at:
SMBS - University of Salzburg Business School

Schlossallee 9, 5412 Puch bei Salzburg, Austria
Tel: +43 (0) 676 8822 2245
Fax: +43 (0) 676 8822 2290
Email: eva.stainer@smbs.at