Student Placements
Placement
The MHA Program begins working with student on their preparation and placement in a professional healthcare administrative role on day one of their academic program. This work is student lead and faculty supported. The Program works to provide students exposure to as many areas of specialization and organizations as possible as well as opportunities to meet and network with professionals from all over the country. Students are challenged to explore and reflect on their career interests and passions.
The Program’s Faculty Advisors work to support students in selecting, applying, interviewing, and negotiating post-graduate fellowships, careers within all areas of healthcare, or continuing their graduate education. The schedule for each varies which allows students to pursue both if desired. Details follow on fellowship and career options.
The MHA Program reports placement outcomes to our accreditor, CAHME. See the CAHME webpage https://cahme.org/programs/?texasamres for information.
Fellowships
All eligible MHA students are encouraged to compete for administrative fellowships as part of their post-graduate experience. An administrative fellowship can be thought of as a 12-18 month extension of one’s learning experience. After graduating, these positions allow for individuals to work within an organization to hone the skills they have learned during their graduate studies. The administrative fellowship application/selection process typically begins during the second semester of the first year and continues through the fall and spring semesters of the second year.
Post graduate fellowships are—
- well planned, with enough flexibility to allow fellows to develop their own learning opportunities consistent with their needs and that of the organization.
- include a high degree of involvement by the preceptor(s).
- offer a number of ways the fellow can take part in active, hands-on, substantive projects that foster development of verbal, interpersonal and analytical skills.
- expose fellows to management decision-making processes and board of trustee activities also is important and integral to the fellowship.
Fellows—
- are able to observe effective leadership and develop leadership skills.
- learn to work independently as their leadership skills grow and develop.
- are treated as professionals and colleagues, not as students or interns.
- are able to integrate health care management theory and application.
- have development objectives, as well as timely, candid, outcome-oriented evaluations by the preceptor and other leaders in the organization.
- Are expose fellows to the operational, strategic and financial challenges at all levels of the organization.
Administrative Fellowships Placement
Texas A&M MHA graduates have been very successful competing for administrative fellowships. Over the past 10 years, better than 35 percent of our students have chosen the administrative fellowship route. Here is a list of some of the locations they’ve been placed—
- HCA Healthcare Houston
- Houston Methodist Hospital
- Cincinnati Children’s
- MD Anderson Cancer Center
- UT Dell Medical Center
- UT Southwestern, Dallas
- JPS Health, Fort Worth
- Seattle Children’s Hospital
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville
- University Hospitals, Cleveland
- University Health, San Antonio
- UTMB, Galveston
- Mid Coast Health System
- Kelsey Seybold Clinic, Houston
- Broward Health
- Integris
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (International), Pittsburgh
Direct Career
MHA graduates successfully secure employment through their Practicum experience, their current employer, or seek their first health administration career positions directly with health systems, hospitals, physician practices, consulting firms and senior living facilities. The Program Faculty Advisors often assists graduates in their placements, which occur late spring through ninety-days post-graduation.
Direct Career Placement
- Protiviti, Dallas
- UT Southwestern, Dallas
- United States Navy
- CHI St. Joseph Health, Bryan
- Harris Health, Houston
- HCA Parallon, Dallas
- Baylor Scott & White
- Blue Cross Blue Shield, Dallas
- Optum
- The Physicians Centre Hospital, Bryan
- Memorial Hermann, Houston
- CHRISTUS Health
- Texas Health Resources, Arlington
- Plano Heart Hospital, Plano
- BSA Health, Amarillo
