• Regular/part-time, for the holders of a “Bachelor” degree in the same major - 2 semesters
• Regular/ part-time, for the holders of a “Bachelor” or a “Master” degree in other majors or professional “Bachelor” degree in the same direction of study  - 4 semesters - Info Pack

The education of students in the Master's degree is carried out in full compliance with the requirements for the major "Public Administration" and in accordance with Decree № 120/8.06.2004 of MS and Ordinance № 9 and № 31 of the Minister of Health. The goal is to prepare highly qualified specialists - Masters for the needs of the health administration in accordance with the ongoing health care reform and accession to the European Union.

The master's program has two profiles - for students with a medical degree and other students with non-medical degree.

The educational program for Master's degree provides expertise in the following areas: health management, health economics, and healthcare, political and administrative sciences. It emphasized on the development of skills and abilities to identify and analyze trends in social processes and phenomena; for communication and interaction with the public, political structure, media; for block interaction and teamwork; for effective organization and high culture of administrative services in the healthcare field, for the management of change in the health system.

The master's degree in "Public Administration" with emphasis "Health Management" provides mastery and development of relevant knowledge, skills and abilities for the development, selection and implementation of strategies in dealing with health administration and health units, to effectively organize the operational management of the administrative structure and activities, to take timely and effective management decisions and monitoring their performance.

The leading requirement for training of health administration is to form professionals for a wide variety realization as leaders in health administration at the local, regional and national level in the administration of health professionals. It is important that the preparation of professionals, which will easily adapt to changes as a result of the development of the market economy and business, to the standards of the developed democracies of the European Union as a uniform and equitable administrative space. The goal is to give the students a broad understanding of modern social problems and methods used to solve them. Emphasis is on learning practical knowledge and skills for dealing with difficult and contradictory cases, reflecting the reality.

Upon completion the student should know:

• to know the subject and content of health management, the specific characteristics of the European health systems for management, and best practices in the field of health management;
• to know the elements and structure of the individual rules in the field of health management;
• to know the systems for financial management and control in the health sector.

After graduation, the student should be able:

• to analyze and put into practice their knowledge of different management cases in healthcare;
• to use modern information resources and to use them in practical work;
• to adapt to changes in the development of the market economy and the public sector, to the standards of the developed democracies of the European Union as a united and equal administrative space.

After graduation, the student must be:

• responsible in their professional activity;
• with an attitude for continuous self-improvement and development in his profile;
• adaptive to the dynamics in the administrative practice and management.

Graduates from the program "Health administration" could be realized in:

• leaders in various fields and institutions in the field of health and health management;
• experts in various institutions, who specialize in controland management of the health system and health services / Regional Health Insurance Funds, Regional health inspections, etc. /;
• experts and specialists in the sphere of Health in the municipal administration in its specialized humanitarian sphere.

CONDITIONS TO APPLY:

1. The applicants must have obtained a Bachelor degree in Public administration or other major.
2. The average grade of the semester and state exams of the applicants should be Good 3.50 for the paid form of the training.