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Duration
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Key dates
Direct applications to Deakin for Trimester 2 2025 close 22 June 2025
Direct applications to Deakin for Trimester 3 2025 close 26 October 2025
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Course overview
This course sets you on track for the next step in your health career toward management and leadership.
Learn to make evidence-based decisions that focus on improving the quality of health service delivery – a sector that has seen strong growth in recent years.
Deakin’s Master of Health and Human Services Management focuses on business and management issues within health, making it the most relevant business administration course for the health sector.
This course is particularly well suited to those interested in working in the health and human services sector as well as those who currently hold senior positions in the industry.
You will develop core skills required for leadership and strategic planning, health needs assessment and evaluation, program planning and monitoring, resource and project management, communication and negotiation.
This course offers enormous flexibility, allowing you to choose elective study options that align with your career aspirations and interest areas. Elective units can be chosen from specialty areas such as health economics, public health research and business administration.
There is also flexibility of choice between research and coursework, enabling you to construct a study program that best meets your interests and career aspirations.
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- Award granted
- Master of Health and Human Services Management
- Year
- 2016 course information
- Deakin code
- H756
Course structure
To complete the Master of Health and Human Services Management students must attain 16 credit points. All units are equal to 1 credit point.
The course comprises 10 core units (these are compulsory) and 6 elective units (you can choose which ones to study from the options in the course structure below).
Core units
This course is offered to students commencing in 2015 onwards. Students who commenced prior to 2015 should refer to the H746 Master of Health and Human Services Management course entry.
Core units
Electives
Option A: Public Health specialisation
Plus one credit point from:
Option B: Health Economics specialisation
Plus
EITHER two credit points from:
OR both the following:
Option C: Business Administration specialisation
Plus one credit point from:
Plus two credit points from:
Option D: Business Administration specialisation with Practicum *
Plus two credit points from:
*Students choosing this option must obtain approval from the Course Director
Other combinations of elective units within the specialisation options are possible with the approval of the Course Director
Intakes by location
The availability of a course varies across locations and intakes. This means that a course offered in Trimester 1 may not be offered in the same location for Trimester 2 or 3. Check each intake for up-to-date information on when and where you can commence your studies.
Entry requirements
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The estimated course fee is based on the tuition fee costs applicable to a domestic full time student commencing the course in Trimester 1 and studying full time for the duration of the course but:
- does not include non-tuition costs that may apply, such as Student Services and Amenities Fees (SSAF);
- does not take into account any scholarships or bursaries awarded to the student (including the 10% Deakin alumni discount);
- assumes the maximum number of units that need to be successfully completed actual number completed may be reduced if recognition of prior learning is granted;
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- assumes that the options that the user selects are appropriate for the course of study that they intend to undertake;
- where fees are estimated for future years those fee will be subject to annual increases in accordance with increases in the cost of course delivery.
Scholarship options
A Deakin scholarship might change your life. If you've got something special to offer Deakin – or you just need the financial help to get you here – we may have a scholarship opportunity for you.
Postgraduate bursary
If you’re a Deakin alumnus commencing a postgraduate award course, you may be eligible to receive a 10% reduction per unit on your enrolment fees.
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For more information on the application process and closing dates, see the How to apply webpage. If you're still having problems, please contact us for assistance.
Contact information
Health - Student and Academic Services
Tel 03 9251 7777
health-enquire@deakin.edu.au
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