Taught at the world’s first business school dedicated to health in a global top 10 university (QS World University Rankings 2027), this course offers an unparalleled opportunity to learn from the best in the sector while gaining the most valuable and in-demand skills.
Healthcare organisations anchored by strategic leadership and managers with specialist skills will form the future of improved healthcare delivery across the world. Globally, healthcare systems are facing a transforming world order where data-driven solutions are increasingly central to impactful healthcare delivery. This is a critical time for healthcare managers to build skills in understanding data and its application to healthcare. Learning about global differences and interconnections, quality improvement, cost-effectiveness and workforce management are also fundamentals on this course. A specialism in analytics equips you with data analysis skills and an understanding of market, policy, and contextual drivers for informed application of digital solutions. A group business project ensures that problem-solving and innovation in the healthcare context are qualities instilled in all students. As a result, our Global Healthcare Management (Analytics) MSc course produces graduates who are versatile, enterprising, and highly employable healthcare management experts. This course is taught from UCL’s state-of-the-art bespoke facilities on our UCL East campus , on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London and at the main campus in Bloomsbury. The UCL Global Business School for Health (UCL GBSH) is situated in the award-winning Marshgate building (RIBA London Building of the Year 2026) with access to hi-tech teaching areas and collaboration spaces, a library, and a refectory.
Our Global Healthcare Management MSc course is ideal for individuals who strive to become excellent managers and changemakers within healthcare settings. You may be a new or recent graduate in a health, science or business field, or you may have some relevant work experience in healthcare that you want to build on to take your career to the next level. For the analytics specialism, we particularly welcome applicants with an interest in and aptitude for working with quantitative data to support healthcare management.
Graduates of this MSc can expect to gain a range of directly transferable skills relevant to working in the health and healthcare sector.
All graduates of this course will gain an in-depth understanding of healthcare management as a discipline, as well as the current topics pushing forward transformational global healthcare, including the growing reliance on information systems and technological databases. Graduates will also be able to apply significant research and analytical skills to support data-driven healthcare management, along with excellent written and verbal communication skills. They will also develop an ability to assess value for patients, organisations and society as a whole in relation to healthcare is also an asset to future employers. A key feature of this course is the opportunity for you to specialise in analytics, finance, or leadership.
The Global Healthcare Management (Analytics) MSc prepares graduates for careers across the healthcare, analytics and consultancy sectors, with many progressing into highly skilled roles within health and social care, manufacturing, and data-driven organisations. Our graduates are working across private, public and multinational organisations in roles spanning healthcare management, policy, and analytics, while others have pursued postgraduate research opportunities, including PhD study and scholarship-funded academic pathways.*
Graduate Outcomes survey carried out by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), looking at the destinations of UK and EU graduates in the 2023/24 cohort.