Looking for US-based MBA or Health-Related Masters with Programmatic Accreditations

[sarahmac]

My husband is applying for the Medical Services Corps (MSC) and intends to do so with constructive credit (think: advanced standing). There are a couple of very specific requirements to do this. First, it must be a US RA degree (either master's or doctorate, if the only realistic options were doctorate level he plans to do the UMPI MAOL quickly to gain access).

Second, the degree must be in one of the following:

"Health Administration, Healthcare Administration, Healthcare Management, Health Management and Policy, Health Services Administration, Hospital Administration, Accounting, Business Administration, Business Management, Economics, Finance, Marketing, Statistics, Information Systems Management, Health Information Management, Health Information Technology, Emergency Management, Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Civil Engineering, Construction Management"

Third, it must have secondary accreditation from a professional body:

"[N]ewly accessed MSC officers will be awarded constructive service credit only for qualifying graduate degrees accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME), Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), National Architectural Accreditation Board (NAAB), Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), or Advanced College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE)."

That third requirement rules out VUL, South College, WGU, HAU, UAGC, Rasmussen etc. (basically all the usual contenders we see here), and the first takes out places like Aston and MBS which have AACSB but aren't American. The third is the real kicker though.

Has anyone come across any remaining contenders that aren't insanely expensive? At the masters level, the only ones I have found so far are UMass Lowell, UTPB, and Georgia Southwestern State. The time investment isn't an issue, he has two and a half years or so, but we are paying out of pocket so we hope to keep it to 15K or thereabouts which is made more difficult by the fact we are overseas - so he is a US resident out-of-state in every state.

Side notes: He has a decent chance of getting into a program in most of the above areas (BS Economics w/ 3.9 GPA, about to finish BSBA Health Management and Finance, BA Mathematics). His preference is for a regular master's, not a terminal MBA, but obviously he has to sort of take what he can get.

[Courcelles]

Louisiana- Lafayette, R1, AACSB, 15 months 12,800 dollars: https://online.louisiana.edu/mba#Cost

Emporia State, AACSB, 12 months 12k https://online.emporia.edu/programs/mba-general.aspx

Kansas actually has another cheap AACSB option at $11,250; Pittsburg State; https://degree.pittstate.edu/online-prog...a/general/

[smartdegree]

Probably also look at UIUC's MS in Management at 11.5k. Not an MBA but your list did specify "business management" as an option so this will probably work (though you might need to confirm). The school and program are both AACSB. You can do it in a year. They also have a performance based admissions option which I understand makes it easy to get in.
https://giesbusiness.illinois.edu/gradua...management

[ThatBankDude]

Southeastern Oklahoma State University offers and Online MBA that is AACSB Accredited for right around $12,000.

[freeloader]

My first choice would likely be the UTPB MS in Finance if the preference is for a non-MBA degree. Reasonable price. Programmatic accreditation.

[Courcelles]

Probably also look at UIUC's MS in Management at 11.5k.  Not an MBA but your list did specify "business management" as an option so this will probably work (though you might need to confirm).  The school and program are both AACSB.  You can do it in a year.   They also have a performance based admissions option which I understand makes it easy to get in.  
https://giesbusiness.illinois.edu/gradua...management

And they recently changed it so the MSM will stack into the MBA with no loss or wasted credits. Made it a much better option.

[bjcheung77]

Probably also look at UIUC's MS in Management at 11.5k.  Not an MBA but your list did specify "business management" as an option so this will probably work (though you might need to confirm).  The school and program are both AACSB.  You can do it in a year.   They also have a performance based admissions option which I understand makes it easy to get in.  
https://giesbusiness.illinois.edu/gradua...management

And they recently changed it so the MSM will stack into the MBA with no loss or wasted credits. Made it a much better option.

This is the one I would recommend as well, in addition to the ones mentioned already. I recall there being a 70% scholarship, if you can get that, this would be amazingly cheap at about $3.5-4K. You can also check out other MOOC options from Cousera or Edx...

[sanantone]

For an AACSB-accredited MBA that's cheap, go to Geteducated.com. They rank programs by price. For healthcare administration programs, search for online programs on the CAHME website. There aren't that many, so might as well go through each one. The same applies to ABET; they have accredited very few online master's programs, so just look at their list of online programs.

MBAs aren't really considered terminal degrees anymore. In academics, a PhD and DBA are terminal degrees for business. A person can easily go from an MBA to a doctoral program.