• Jim Bradford - Dean, Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management

  A Unique Education
  "This is a program that spends a lot of time with the student inside the business community, inside the hospital, inside the third-party payor, inside the physician's office, inside each of these parts and pieces of the health care industry."

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• Jon Lehman - Associate Dean of Health Care, Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management

  Real-World Experience
  "We can provide a real-world experience for students…in an immersion concept where they get their hands on real problems and real companies…in a much faster and more dynamic way than they could in any other program."

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• David Owens - Clinical Professor of Management, Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management

  Immersion Course
  "The students have a much more deeper sense of…how hard the problem is…and what an important job it is that they have to do, and how important it is for them to go back into this world and make a difference there."

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This groundbreaking, immersion-based program, developed in close collaboration with industry executives, prepares students to create real change in health care from their first day on the job.

A strong foundation of business and leadership skills

It starts with Vanderbilt's nationally ranked core MBA education, an intensive immersion in the fundamentals of management. Students earn a concentration in the discipline of their choice—finance, operations, strategy, IT, human and organizational performance, or marketing. The modular curriculum allows students to prepare for careers in specific health care sectors such as medical equipment, biotech, consulting, pharmaceuticals, or managed care.

Unmatched industry insight and hands-on experience

During the first year, students spend full shifts in hospital units, treatment centers, and back offices to learn first-hand how care is delivered, decisions are made, and processes either facilitate or impede delivery of quality health care. In the second year, students help develop strategy with health care executives and gain extraordinary exposure to the complex challenges of the industry.

Real-world expertise in the classroom

Courses are taught by Vanderbilt's world-class faculty as well as prominent executives within Nashville's dynamic health care community. Students will learn health care policy from a U.S. Congressman, health care finance from a Wall Street Analyst, and entrepreneurship from the founders of well-known health care companies.