Features of the MSN-MBA Program
Anderson University provides graduate education that is:
- Student oriented – small enough for students to receive individualized attention, but large enough to have expert faculty with credible credentials and practical experience.
- Christian in character, while accepting of individuals from all faith traditions.
- Committed to the educational values of service, student/employer success, and academic excellence.
- Focused on personal attention and responsiveness to student needs by making high-quality graduate education accessible to working professionals. When you call for help, you can talk to a live person, not get a pre-recorded phone menu.
- Accepting of most applicable transfer credit up to 3 credit hours.
- Designed around the cohort model to build support networks where students share experiences and become advocates for one another.
- Committed to guaranteeing the cost of tuition for as long as you are enrolled in the program, unless you stop out for more than one semester.
- Uncomplicated when it comes to enrollment procedures.
- An MBA program accredited by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP).
- An MSN program accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.
The MSN-MBA degree program:
- Is geared toward working adults – one night per week for most classes, summer classes, manageable work load.
- Can be completed in as few as 36 months.
- Has many class projects directed toward work-related problems or issues.
- Offers face-to-face classes versus the impersonal online courses, plus allows students to benefit from in-class discussion – students can learn from their peers.
- Has program faculty readily available for phone or office consultation.
- Features online availability for purchasing books and materials, which are delivered directly to your home.
- Includes an entire second degree with only 18-19 additional credit hours to obtain (assuming a traditional master’s program is 36-37 credit hours).
- Is cost competitive with other private universities.
Individual Benefits
Nursing professionals in the MSN-MBA program will:
- Have opportunities for personal and career growth.
- Acquire theory/didactic knowledge needed to be an effective administrator in an increasingly complex health-care environment.
- Focus on leadership strategies for implementing fiscal responsibility and managing change.
- Be eligible for ANCC certification in Nursing Administration if work requirements met.
- Learn from global opportunities in local and/or worldwide facilities (e.g., hospitals or other health-care facilities in Honduras, Russia, Uganda, homeless shelters in Washington, D.C., to name a few).
- Qualify for multiple career opportunities.
- Substantially increase earning power.
- Have both nursing and business theory and knowledge.
- Obtain the tools needed to effectively lead and direct health-care personnel and programs.
- Be able to speak the language of both the health-care professionals and the business leaders of the organization, thereby having the same advantages as business colleagues in understanding the business aspects of administering a health-care organization.
- Possess the knowledge to ask hard questions related to budgets, staffing, physical resources, etc.
- Have increased knowledge of how the government, as well as private organizations, influence health-care delivery, i.e., Medicare, Medicaid, JCAHO, private insurance companies, other regulating bodies, etc.
- Learn about legal, ethical, and business issues affecting the work place.
- Grow personally and professionally.
- Have skills necessary for critical thinking and communicating and dealing with people at the administrative level.
Organizational Benefits
- The graduate will have the tools needed to be an effective administrator of human, financial, and health-care resources.
- Graduates will have an enhanced ability to anticipate change and effectively manage resources to benefit the health-care organization.
- Nursing professionals will have experience in offering innovative ideas to solve real-life health-care problems.
- A better educated employee will make better decisions, enhancing care for patients while improving employee morale and loyalty among health-care professionals.
- A graduate of this program will increase the effectiveness of his/her unit/department to achieve fiscal objectives.
- The graduate will have a better ability to provide vision and leadership for the organization.
- Graduates will be better able to position organizations to compete with other health-care organizations.
- A nursing professional in this program will better understand government regulations as well as other regulatory guidelines such as Medicare, Medicaid, JCAHO, etc.
- The educational investment in human talent will enhance commitment to the organization and will lead to loyalty and tenure of the individual as well as other employees.
