Executive MHA Program Scholarships
The MHA program offers four awards to current Executive MHA students. These scholarships honor and support students who embody the program’s values of diversity, service and leadership, and who demonstrate knowledge of and ability to apply such values within the program, and the health care profession's scope of practice.
Current Executive MHA students will receive the scholarship announcement and application details via a program email in autumn quarter.
All qualifying Executive MHA students who submit a completed application through the online system will be considered. The MHA program director and a review committee of teaching faculty decide the award recipients.
See the 2021–2022 recipients.
Essay-Based Scholarship Awards
Applications open: October 1, 2022
Submission deadline: October 23, 2022, by 11:59 p.m.
Recipients notified by: December 18, 2022
HSEED Equity and Diversity Award
The Health Services Excellence, Equity and Distinction (HSEED) Award was established by the Department of Health Systems and Population Health in 2016 in an effort to increase the number of health professionals from diverse communities in the field of public health and health services. This award recognizes those who have overcome barriers to entering higher education or health care administration, and the contributions they will bring to the field. These barriers can include, but are not limited to, race, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, economic status, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, nationality and/or access to education. Recipients are honored for their outstanding academic merit, diversity of experiences and backgrounds, and potential for leadership in health care.
Award Amount: $5,000
Impact Award
This award honors students who exemplify principles of service: commitment to the needs of communities, to programs that improve the human condition, and to efforts to protect and empower all individuals. This award recognizes students who demonstrate service to unserved and underserved communities and populations.
Emerging Leader Award
This award honors an innovative and inclusive leader of tomorrow who brings a unique lens to the field of health care administration. The award includes students with nontraditional leadership experiences, who expand the definition of leadership and add value to the field.
Current Topics in Health Care Award
This award recognizes students who demonstrate outstanding presentation skills and exceptional understanding of the field of health care administration through their response to an emerging topic in health care. Students choose one topic to address in their essay.