Elevate your healthcare experience to executive leadership with

Telfer’s Executive Master of Health Administration.

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Build strategic, financial, and system-level expertise in Canada’s only Executive Master of Health Administration, designed for healthcare leaders with 5+ years of leadership experience.

• Cultivate executive readiness through business, strategy, innovation, and data-driven decision-making

• Integrate advanced leadership, business, strategy, and systems-level thinking into your current role

• Gain a global healthcare perspective through a transformative international capstone experience

• Earn your executive master’s credential in 20 months through an online, primarily asynchronous format that respects your work and obligations

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Improve and advocate for stronger health systems across Canada

Join a business school focused on building a better Canada. We are committed to empowering leaders who can significantly impact our country, with particular attention to sustainability and health and wellness.

Build executive-level business acumen

Strengthen your ability to lead complex healthcare organizations through a curriculum focused on executive healthcare strategy, policy, finance, leadership, management, data analytics, innovation, and digital transformation.

Learn while you continue to lead

Our program’s online, primarily asynchronous format is designed for working professionals. Over the next 20 months, you can continue to advance in your current role while developing the high-level capabilities and experiences needed for your next one.

We provide the highest standard of education Canada offers, backed by international accreditations awarded by the most demanding global organizations.

Immerse yourself in an international capstone experience that expands your understanding of healthcare systems beyond Canada. Learn from healthcare leaders, guest speakers, site visits, and peer discussions while applying your expertise to a real-world healthcare management project.

Participate in leadership coaching by matching with an esteemed healthcare leader. Through this experience, you can refine your executive leadership style, explore areas of interest in the healthcare sector, and receive guidance connected to your professional growth. 

Develop advanced knowledge across critical areas of healthcare administration, including leadership and management, healthcare systems and policy, information technology and data analytics, innovation, change, and strategic decision-making.

Connect your learning directly to the challenges facing healthcare organizations and systems. Apply new frameworks, tools, and insights to the decisions, teams, and initiatives you’re already leading.

Learn alongside experienced peers from across Canada’s healthcare system, including professionals from clinical, policy, institutional, emergency services, non-profit, and private practice environments. Telfer is home to 4,300 purpose-driven students, over 200 professors renowned for their research, and 32,000 alumni.

Work experience: A minimum of 5 years of management experience in healthcare

Academic qualifications: A baccalaureate degree from a Canadian school or its equivalent with a minimum average of 70% (B).

• Note: Should you not have this academic background, you could still be considered based on substantial managerial responsibilities and at least 10 years of work experience.

Admission tests: A minimum of 75% in the required Harvard Modules:

• Canadian, permanent resident, and American applicants: Harvard Online Math Module
• International applicants: Harvard Online Math Module & Harvard Communication Module

Letter of intent: Your reasons for pursuing the Executive Master of Health Administration and what you can bring to the program based on your background and experience

Recommendation letters: Two professional letters of recommendation, one from a direct supervisor

Language: Demonstration of English proficiency

“The Canadian healthcare system is undergoing significant transformation, and it requires leaders who are knowledgeable and experienced in these areas to ensure that change is successful.

As a clinician, the Executive Master of Health Administration allowed me to solidify my leadership and management skills, which are often lacking in clinical training programs. The Executive Master of Health Administration has also given me the skills, knowledge, and confidence to move into senior leadership positions in healthcare.”

Dr. Nathan Stolch
(Executive Master of Health Administration, 2023)

Optometrist and Partner, EyeDOCS

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Elevate your healthcare experience to executive leadership with Telfer’s Executive Master of Health Administration.

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