Master of Health Leadership and Management

• Study a compulsory core covering health information management, leading people in healthcare organisations, and research approaches — giving you a strong foundation across the key disciplines of health leadership and management.
• Choose electives from UC's Business School, Public Health, and Health Sciences offerings, tailoring your learning to your career goals across areas including strategy, ethics, health systems, policy, and Hauora Māori.
• In your final semester, choose between a work-integrated experiential research practicum — applying leadership and management theory to a real challenge in a health organisation — or a research dissertation for those pursuing a more academic pathway.
• Develop advanced skills in designing, implementing, and evaluating evidence-informed improvements in health service delivery and organisational performance.
• Embed Te Tiriti o Waitangi, equity, and culturally responsive leadership throughout your studies, preparing you to lead across Aotearoa New Zealand's diverse health sector.

To apply to the MHLM, you will need to have previously completed any Aotearoa New Zealand bachelor’s degree with a B Grade Point Average or better, or other qualifications of an equivalent standard.

If English is not your first language, you are also required to meet UC's Postgraduate language requirements. See how to provide your English language evidence to UC. If you need help meeting these requirements, or would like to practise your English skills before studying, UC offers English for Academic Purposes (EAP) language programmes.

For the full entry requirements, see the Regulations for the Master of Health Leadership and Management or use the admission requirements checker.
 

How to apply

You can apply online with myUC.

See Admission and enrolment for all information on enrolling at UC.

Compulsory courses

• HLTH402 Health Information Management 

• HLTH410 Leading and Motivating People in Healthcare Organisations

• HLTH464 Research Approaches for Health and Sport 

Research project

In the final semester, you can choose between completing a research thesis or practical research project. 

• MHLM631 Health Leadership & Management: Experiential Research Practicum (45 points)

• 45 points of electives chosen from the list below 

OR

• HLTH695 Dissertation (60 points) 

• 30 points of electives chosen from the list below

Elective courses 

• HLTH407 Ethics and Health (30 points)

• MBAD605 Leading People and Performance (10 points) 

• MBAD615 Leading Ourselves (10 points)

• MBAD617 Leading Complex Systems (10 points) 

• MBAD642 Leading Teams (10 points)

• MBAD643 Leading Decisions and Change (10 points) 

• POLS440 Principles and Practice of Policy and Governance (30 points)

• PUBH420 Public Health Essentials: Building Blocks for Impact (15 points) 

• PUBH421 Hauora Māori (15 points)

• PUBH422 Health Systems in Action: Policy, Innovation and Equity (15 points) 

• PUBH623 Healthy Societies: Empowering Change through Health Promotion (15 points)

• SSCI415 Leading People & Systems in Sport (15 points) 

UC offers a Doctor of Health Sciences, or a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Health Sciences.

Graduates of the MHLM will be equipped for advanced leadership positions in health organisations, government, and international agencies. Career pathways could include:

• Senior management and executive roles in Te Whatu Ora, health providers, NGOs, and international health organisations.

• Health system leadership, strategy, and planning roles in government and policy agencies.

• Senior quality, safety, and service improvement roles. 

• Leadership roles in research, consultancy, and health workforce development.