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 at the moment. Healthcare organisations anchored by strategic leadership and managers with specialist skills will form the future of improved healthcare delivery across the world. Many global healthcare systems were feeling the pressure before the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, now is a critical time to push forward systems thinking and universal best practices. Equipping you with a critical foundation in the theories, principles and practices of healthcare management, the Global Healthcare Management MSc gives future healthcare managers and leaders key knowledge. Learning about global differences and interconnections, quality improvement, patient safety, and workforce management are also fundamentals of this course. A group business project ensures that problem-solving and innovation in the healthcare context are qualities instilled in all students. You will also have the opportunity to specialise in either analytics, finance, or leadership, where there is a current skills deficit in healthcare organisations across the world. As a result, our Global Healthcare Management 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. 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 finance specialism, we particularly welcome applicants with an interest in and aptitude for analysing financial data and applying financial approaches 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. This capability is also valuable to future employers.
The Global Healthcare Management (Finance) MSc prepares graduates for careers across healthcare, finance, banking and investment, consultancy and policy-focused organisations, with many progressing into highly skilled roles within health and social care, manufacturing, and multinational organisations. Our graduates pursue opportunities across private, public and international healthcare settings in roles spanning healthcare finance, management consulting, policy development and implementation, and analytics-driven decision making. Others have gone on to further postgraduate study and professional development opportunities to deepen their expertise within the global healthcare sector.*