About This Program
The Masters of Healthcare Data Analytics is a focused two-year program built to meet the growing need for skilled healthcare data professionals. Designed for healthcare practitioners, recent graduates, and IT professionals interested in healthcare, the program combines real-world application with foundational theory and cutting-edge data application.
...Healthcare data is used in medical clinics, hospitals, government agencies, and pharmaceutical and insurance companies. The field is constantly expanding, with organizations eager to hire healthcare data experts to improve patient safety, manage costs, and increase efficiency.
Program Highlights
The fully-online program is comprised of three stackable certificates and a collaborative graduate project. The program empowers mid-career professionals to master and excel in three key areas, each highlighted by a specialized certificate.
Developed by CSUN faculty alongside leading industry experts in healthcare data, this program enables students to combine healthcare knowledge with emerging technologies, creating strong opportunities for leadership and strategic roles.
Each course in the certificate program has been strategically designed to focus on leading topics in the field.
Throughout the program, you’ll receive the one-on-one support of a team dedicated to your personal and professional success. Whether it’s enrollment, grading or financial aid, our team of experts will help you stay on track and graduate on time.
On our convenient online platform, you can earn your professional experience and credentials without ever leaving the comfort of your home. This platform allows flexibility for working professionals and students interested in enhancing their careers in the healthcare and data analytics fields. Our online courses feature real-time class sessions, on-demand access to learning materials, and frequent networking opportunities with your peers.
At the end of our program, student cohorts come together to complete a graduate project. Each team collaborates with industry professionals, and faculty advisors provide valuable feedback, resulting in a showcase of innovative solutions.
Job Outlook: Healthcare Data Analytics
What Do Healthcare Data Analytics Graduates Do?
Graduates of the Master of Science in Healthcare Data Analytics program are prepared to meet the high demand for skilled professionals in various healthcare settings, contributing to improved patient outcomes, cost management, and operational efficiency.
Potential job titles include:
- Healthcare Data Analyst
- Health Information Technologist
- Medical Registrar
- Clinical Data Analyst
- Healthcare Business Analyst
- Data Scientist
- Health Informatics Specialist
- Healthcare Consultant
- Data Manager
- Research Analyst
- Statistician
- Healthcare Administrator
- Medical Registrar
- Data Visualization Specialist
- Predictive Analytics Modeler
- Healthcare Operations Analyst
- Public Health Data Analyst
Healthcare Data Analytics Certificates
Healthcare Data Management
The Certificate in Healthcare Data Management focuses at meeting the needs of skilled data management practitioners in the healthcare industry.
The certificate curriculum blends theory and practice across key subjects including:
- Data management
- Governance and analysis
- Programming for healthcare analytics
- Data visualization for stakeholders
- Data entry, retrieval and modeling
Throughout the program, students collaborate with industry experts and use state-of-the-art analytics tools.
Healthcare Systems and Operations
The Certificate in Healthcare Systems and Operations focuses on operational management, effectively use AI and machine-learning tools, and lead data and systems analysis with a healthcare focus.
This certificate covers a variety of topics including:
- Understanding U.S. healthcare
- Digital health and emerging technologies
- Quality and operational management
Leadership and Strategy in Healthcare Analytics
The Certificate in Leadership and Strategy in Healthcare Analytics focuses on leadership and data application for the healthcare industry.
The diverse coursework covers a variety of topics including:
- Leadership and application of ethical models
- Healthcare statistical analysis
- Understanding biases in AI and machine-learning
- Ethical data use and patient privacy
Three Choices, One Competitive Degree
By combining the skills learned through each certificate and completing the graduate project, students have the potential to advance in creative industry fields like marketing, branding, communication design, public relations, entertainment and interactive software.
Students can leverage the skills and insight learned in this program to advance their careers into creative-adjacent fields such as education, job training, and health and wellness, where creative design is transforming these industries.
Meet your Faculty from Tseng College
Career Opportunities
- Promote safe, high-quality care for diverse patient populations and communities
- Lead organizational changes in hospitals and clinics
- Educate and train a new generation of nurses
- Craft and implement policies that promote patient advocacy
- Develop an infrastructure that leads to improved and cost-efficient health outcomes
Course work includes lectures, classroom activities, online modules, simulations and clinical practice rotation.
