Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Business

Healthcare and Business Core Requirements (41-43 credits)

• Medical Terminology and Communication in Healthcare (2 cr.)
• Introduction to Business Intelligence and Data Analytics (3 cr.)
• Introduction to Financial and Managerial Accounting (3 cr.)
• Organizational Behavior I (3 cr.)
• Evidence-Based Practice (3 cr.)
• Rural Healthcare (3 cr.)
• Health Communication (3 cr.)
• Principles of Marketing (3 cr.)
• Healthcare Finance (3 cr.)
• Operations & Supply Chain Management (3 cr.)
• Economic Principles and Engineering Economics (3 cr.)
• Healthcare Systems and Policy (3 cr.)
• Health Behavior (3 cr.)
• Healthcare Quality and Improvement (3 cr.)
• Prof. Exp. (0-2 cr)

Healthcare and Business Elective Requirements (19 credits)

• one Communication elective (e.g. Data Visualization or Public Health in Film and Nonfiction) (1 cr.)
• one HC elective (e.g. The Body & Environment: Toxicity Study, Anthropology and Social Work or Reproduction and Society) (3 cr.)
• one Ethics elective (e.g. Medical Ethics, Business Ethics or The Law and Bioethics) (3 cr.)
• one Diversity elective (e.g. Sociology of Family, Intro to Gender, Men & Masculinity or Cultural Psychology) (3 cr.)
• one Business elective (e.g. Quantitative Methods of Business & Economics or Designing and Leading Innovative Ventures) (3 cr.)
• one Biology elective (e.g. Genetics, Pharmacology of Infectious Disease, Immunology or Kinesiology) (3 cr.)
• one Psychology elective (e.g. Social Psychology, Human Cognitive Evolution or Cognitive Neuroscience) (3 cr.)

Clarkson Common Experience Requirements (31-33 credits)

• First Year Seminar (1 cr.)
• The Clarkson Seminar (3 cr.)
• Knowledge Area/UC (15 cr.)
• Mathematics and Statistics (2 math + stats) (9-11 cr.)
• Tech course (e.g., Bioinformatics or Techniques in Immunological Research) (3 cr.)

Science Requirements (16 credits)

• Biology I Inheritance, Evolution, and Diversity/Biology I Laboratory (5 credits)
• Biology II Cellular and Molecular Biology/Biology II Laboratory (5 credits)
• Two additional advisor approved science courses (6 credits)

Free electives (additional courses up to 120 overall credits)

Majoring in healthcare business is also the newest option for Clarkson’s Direct Entry initiative for healthcare careers. In this program, students complete four years of undergraduate study at Clarkson for a BS degree, then directly enter our master's or doctorate degree programs in their chosen healthcare field.

There is no second application (high school students apply for both the bachelor's and graduate degree programs at the same time), as long as all the requirements and academic criteria have been met. Direct Entry provides a guaranteed spot for first-year undergraduate students in our Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program, MS in Occupational Therapy (MS-OT) program or MS in Physician Assistant Studies (MS-PA) program.

Learn more about our Direct Entry programs

Combine your Healthcare Business major with a variety of minors to create a truly personalized academic experience tailored to your career goals. Popular minors include:

Medicine and Healthcare Minor

The best healthcare practitioners are more than technically proficient. They're also keenly aware of ethics, history and other perspectives on their profession. Get insights that will prepare you for what awaits in the field while gaining invaluable hands-on experience. Learn more about the medicine and healthcare minor.

Psychology Minor

Psychology minors develop the critical skills of problem-solving and communication. These skills include being able to formulate a problem; acquiring the information needed to solve the problem, either through researching the existing literature or designing methods to collect new data; analyzing and interpreting the information; integrating the information and applying it to the problem; and communicating the solution to others. Learn more about the psychology minor.

Cognitive Neuroscience Minor

Study the mechanisms that guide processes like attention, memory, perception and emotion. This minor is ideal for students interested in clinical health careers, such as medicine, physical therapy, clinical psychology and neuropsychology. Learn more about the cognitive neuroscience minor.

Pre-Health Sciences Advising Tracks

If you're interested in pursuing a career in the health sciences or healthcare, we'll work with you to ensure you're going the right way. Each semester, faculty advisors will help you choose classes and activities that can make it easier to get into graduate programs. The departmental psychology curriculum is so flexible that it provides an ideal starting point for students who want to double major (e.g., degrees in psychology and healthcare, or psychology and biology) within their regular course load.