S T U D E N T P R O F I L E
Approximately 30 students are accepted each calendar year into the health administration program, ensuring individual access to professors and advisers. Health administration class sizes average 20 students, while core MBA class sizes average 35 students. Students are able to gain valuable work experience, part time or full time, in the booming Atlanta healthcare market place while completing the degree requirements.
The average age of each entering class is approximately 26 years. Approximately a third of our students enter the program directly after their undergraduate education, and another third enter with more than five years of healthcare experience in leadership roles. The remaining students possess a variety of experience outside the healthcare field. Our students come from undergraduate college and university programs across the United States with majors in everything from business and nursing to anthropology and history.
The Institute has been highly successful in producing qualified healthcare professionals, boasting a near 100-percent employment rate prior to graduation. While most graduates begin their careers in middle management, the majority eventually progress to senior management positions.
The Institute has a very active professional student organization - Future Healthcare Executives. This chapter is an affiliate of the American College of Healthcare Executive Higher Learning Network. They organizes educational, social, and service events.
Several dinner lectures are sponsored each semester, bringing in representatives of healthcare organizations from a wide variety of areas. These executives give the students real world insight into current issues facing the industry. In addition, panel discussions have been organized around such topics as "Healthcare Consulting as a Career" to "Issues Facing Women Executives in Healthcare."
The student chapter participates in many community service activities and fundraisers.
President - Kyle Emerson
Vice-President - Jenna Rush
Secretary - Emilie Kirkup
Treasurer - Kimberly Stiegel
Philanthropy Co-chair - Murry Ford and Louisa Dinkins
Technology Chair - Tim Moody
Social Chair - Bruce Abdul
R. C. Williams, M.D. Honor Award
Max Holland Scholarships
R.J. Knobel Scholarships
- Danielle Haywood
- April Mickens Jolly
AUPHA/McGaw Scholar
Upsilon Phi Delta Honor Society
- Kelly Baker
- Dustin Capehart
- Julie Doering
- Brian Sanders
- Laura Wingate
- Rochelle Zacher
