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The Health Sector Management Program allows dual degree students to apply some BU Law courses applicable to Health Care toward the M.B.A (with the School of Management's consent). Students also may apply to the J.D. degree up to 12 credits of graduate-level work taken at the BU Graduate School of Management. The remaining requirements for the M.B.A. in Health Sector Management consist of basic M.B.A. courses plus specific Health Sector Management courses.

NOTE: Due to ABA accreditation requirements, the number of credits for a GSM course that may be applied to the J.D. degree may vary from what the Graduate School of Management offers for that course. Please check with the Law Registrar's Office to determine how many LAW credits will apply to a GSM course.

The required School of Management courses include instruction in managing organizations and people; financial reporting and control; marketing; data analysis; financial management; economics and management decisions; operations and technology; IT strategies; competition, innovation and strategy; executive communications; career development; business law and ethics; and relevant health sector courses.

• Specific M.B.A. in Health Sector Management requirements:
  1. M.B.A. courses:
  OB 712 Managing Organizations and People (must be taken first)
  AC 711 Financial Reporting and Control
  MK 724 Marketing Management (must take AC 711 before or concurrently)
  QM 717 Data Analysis for Managerial Decision-Making (must take OB 712 before)
  FE 722 Financial Management (must take OB 712 before; must take AC 711 before or concurrently)
  FE 730 Economics and Management Decisions (must take OB 712 before; recommend taking QM 717 before)
  OM 726 Creating Value Through Operations and Technology (must take OB 712, AC 711, and QM 717 before; recommend taking MK 724 and FE 722 before)
  IS 711 IT Strategies for a Networked Economy (must take OB 712, AC 711, and QM 717 before)
  SI 751 Competition, Innovation and Strategy (must take OB 712, AC 711, MK 724 and OM 726 before). Recommend taking SP 751 in the fall or spring semesters. A limited number of summer 1 slots available to J.D./M.B.A. students.
  Executive Communications (One of these courses will meet the requirement: ES 700, ES 701).
  ES 707 Managing Career Growth
  PL 700 Business Law & Ethics (may be waived with completion of appropriate course work at LAW)
  HM 703 Health Sector Issues and Opportunities
  One of the following coures:
  -HM 710 Health Service Delivery: Strategies, Solutions and Execution
  -HM 717 Drugs, Devices and Diagnostics: New Challenges, Strategies and Execution
  Two of the following elective courses:
  -HM 710 Health Services Delivery: Strategies, Solutions and Execution (will count as elective if not taken as part of HSM core)
  -HM 717 Drugs, Devices and Diagnostics: New Challenges., Strategies and Execution (will count as elective if not taken as part of HSM core)
  -HM 801 Bench-to-Bedside-Translating Biomedical Innovation from the Laboratory to the Marketplace
  -HM 802 Introducing and Sustaining Helath Sector Innovation
  -HM 817 Health Information Technology
  -HM 833 Health Sector Marketing
  -HM 840 Health Sector Consulting
  -OM 840 Managing and Improving Quality: Six Sigma Green Belt Certification (course project must be health sector field)
  -SI 852 Starting New Ventures (business plan developed; must be within health sector field)
  
  2. Health Care Management Internship-taken during the summer after third year of law school; provides hands-on management experience and involves management or policy-related project of strategic or analytic value to a health care organization
  
  The law courses that apply toward the M.B.A. may vary. Students should consult both the BU Law and the School of Management to determine which law courses may apply.