Courses
Whether you’ve been working in healthcare for a few years or are new to the field, the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program (HPM) offers a strong curriculum to help advance your understanding of the industry. Healthcare electives complement Columbia Business School’s world-class MBA curriculum. HPM sets students up for success by equipping them with the knowledge, insights, and expertise needed to tackle the current problems facing the industry.
Courses are taught by a mix of full-time faculty and seasoned healthcare executives. They cover critical areas: healthcare delivery, health IT, services, biopharma, medical devices, public policy, entrepreneurship, venture investing and global health. All courses are electives so students can tailor their education to their interests and career goals.
Healthcare Course List
Provider & Payor
- The US Healthcare Industry: Structure and Strategies (MBA)
- Transforming the Delivery of Healthcare Services (MBA)
Venture/Entrepreneurship + Tech
- Healthcare Venture Capital and Private Equity: HCIT and Services (MBA)
- Applying Healthcare IT and Digital Health (MBA)
- Investing in Digital Health Startups (MBA)
Life Sciences
- Economics of Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals (MBA & EMBA)
- Investing in Medical Technology (MBA)
- Strategy and Competition in Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology (MBA)
- Biotech/Pharma Commercialization and Development Strategies (MBA & EMBA)
Additional
- Healthcare Management, Design, and Strategy (MBA & CUIMC)
- Public Policy and the Healthcare Industry (MBA & EMBA)
For updated information or more information about these courses, you can visit the course catalogue below.
Graduate Level Cross - School Courses
We encourage our students to take advantage of the myriad of healthcare courses taught at other Columbia schools that may enhance their knowledge of the field. MBA students may count a combined maximum of 6-credits of graduate-level courses from other Columbia Schools toward the MBA degree. For more information on the cross-registration procedure for Columbia Business School, visit the MBA Cross-Registration page.
Students should reach out to the respective Schools to understand which courses are available for cross-listing and in which semester(s) as these may change across semesters.
Some cross-school course options interested to our healthcare students are:
Engineering
BMEN-E6007 Lab-To-Market: Accelerating Biomedical Innovation- Submit your resume and brief statement of interest to [email protected]. Info session PowerPoint PDF here.
Mailman
Here is the Mailman Course Directory in case you want to look up any of these courses along with their course description. *The most up-to-date course information can be found in the Mailman Course Directory
- P8225 001 Health System Performance: Cross-National Comparisons
- P6520 001 Healthcare in the Arts
- P8214 001 Law & Policy: Mass Incarceration in the United States
- P8202 001 Behavioral Policy & Public Health
- P8220 001 Economics of Prevention
- P8223 001 Ethical Decision-Making: How to Make Ethical Decisions and Justify Complex Policies
- P8513 001 Healthcare Services for Vulnerable, At-Risk Populations
- P8501 001 Innovations in Health Policy
- P8532 001 Mental Health Policy
- P8540 001 Is Bigger better? An Analysis of Consolidation in the Healthcare Industry
- P8553 001 Strategic Planning for Health Insurance Plans
- P8561 001 Managing Public Health Non-profits
- P8565 001 Landscape of Healthcare Quality
- P8566 001 Entrepreneurship for HC Managers
- P8584 001 Transforming the Delivery of Healthcare Services
- P8597 001 The Politics and Policies of Humanitarian Aid & Health
- P6503 HC Economics (only open as an elective in the spring)
- P6529 HC Accounting & Budgeting (only open as an elective in the fall)
- P8205 Venture Capital
- P8210 The Untold Stories in US Health Policy
- P8211 Race and Public Policy: Interpreting Sub-Systemic Racism
- P8213 Health Claims Data (This class is designed for students who are proficient with STATA, SAS, R or other similar data analysis software languages.)
- P8217 Spurring Social Justice in Public Health: Creating Models for Practical Change
- P8218 Healthcare Leadership: Leading with Equity
- P8219 Public Health Communications: Take this course. Communicate clearly. Save lives
- P8522 Post-Acute & Long-Term Care Delivery Systems
- P8544 Environmental Health Economics
- P8593 Strategic Investment in Healthcare
- P8594 Addressing the Opioid Crisis
Law
L6355 Health Law - Law School Directory.
School of International & Public Affairs
- PAUF U6413 Global Health & Public Policy
- PUAF U6418 The Covid-19 Pandemic: Virology, Public Health, & Economics
Graduate School of Arts and Science
- BIOT W4160 Biotechnology Law
- BIOT W4161 Ethics in Biopharma Pat/Reg Law
- BIOT W4200 Biopharmaceutical Development and Regulation
- BINF G5000 Defining, Evaluating, and Improving Quality in Healthcare
For more information on course offerings at other Columbia schools, visit:
Dual Degree Programs
Columbia Business School offers students a wide range of dual degree options. Students can combine a Columbia MBA with one of 10 other professional degrees such as public health, medicine, engineering, international affairs, social work, and others. Interested candidates must apply separately to the Business School and the second school or program. Each school makes admission decisions independently.
The most pertinent dual degree programs with the HPM Program are:
- Nursing: MBA and MS in Nursing
- Physicians and Surgeons: MBA and MD
- Public Health: MBA and MPH
- Engineering & Applied Science: MBA/Executive MS
- Dental: MBA