Degree Requirements

The Health Services Management curriculum provides a working foundation in management and professional skills, while at the same time introducing the student to the health care delivery system and its many and varied issues and challenges. Graduates are prepared to assume increased management responsibilities with a better understanding of the complex system in which they work.

The curriculum’s goals are to provide students with a substantive general education, with an understanding of the health care system, and with specialized, interdisciplinary knowledge. Licensed or credentialed practitioners with associate degrees may receive up to 30 semester hours of credit for their discipline-specific training.

The Health Services Management program offers two concentrations to meet the needs of working, credentialed practitioners (the Allied Health Management Concentration) and the more traditional students (the Health Services Management Concentration). Whichever concentration suits the student best, all majors must earn a minimum grade of C in all foundations curriculum, cognate, and core courses.  Minimum degree requirement is 124 semester hours of credit; 62 semester hours must be from a four-year institution.

A Traditional Student – Health Services Management (HSM) Concentration

The B.S. in Health Services Management will allow the graduate to pursue jobs in mid-level management in health care; OR, the traditional student may choose to become a candidate for a master’s program in allied health. With this degree, pre-requisites for the master’s will be met and a baccalaureate degree with a job future will be earned.

Course of study (DOCX)

Fall Semester Freshman Year (15 semester credit hours)

Spring Semester Freshman Year (15 semester credit hours)

Fall Semester Sophomore Year (17 semester credit hours)

*Count toward electives (9 science s.h. in this course of study; only 8 needed for gen ed. Count 1 extra toward electives)

Spring Semester Sophomore Year (14 semester credit hours)

Fall Semester Junior Year (16 semester credit hours)

Spring Semester Junior Year (15 semester credit hours)

Fall Semester Senior Year (15 semester credit hours)

Spring Semester Senior Year (16 semester credit hours)

The Working Professional – Allied Health Management (AHM) Concentration

This concentration is for the working, credentialed practitioner with an associate degree who wants to advance into supervisory and managerial roles by studying via distance delivery to earn the baccalaureate degree in Health Services Management.

AHM course of study (DOCX)

Candidates licensed or credentialed in allied health discipline and with associate degree in science:

• Transfer in some general education
• 8-11 s.h. for discipline-specific technical courses may be eligible for transfer

ECU Foundations – In ECU Foundations – In Progress Prior to Admissions

*Needed to apply to HSMA, C grade of higher required
** Continued Completion
*** Completion

Fall Semester Junior Year (13 semester credit hours)

Spring Semester Junior Year (12 semester credit hours)

Fall Semester Senior Year (15 semester credit hours)

Spring Semester Senior Year (16 semester credit hours)