B.S. in Healthcare Management

This is a comprehensive program, which is designed to provide health professionals with the education to become administrators in health care agencies.

The curriculum is directed toward developing the management, problem-solving, finance, and interpersonal skills that are necessary for careers in a variety of healthcare organizations. An additional intent of the program is to provide career advancement opportunities for those who are already employed in healthcare organizations.

Healthcare Management Concentrations

Health Information Technology

Medical documents contain confidential and protected patient information that necessitates maintaining patient privacy and complying with strict government regulations. Health Information Technology professionals ensure a healthcare facility’s technology systems are securely encrypted and up to regulatory standards to keep protected health information safe and secure.

Healthcare Marketing

Healthcare organizations must promote their services to a broad range of potential clients. Healthcare marketers harness the power of social media, survey data, and digital communication to strengthen an organization’s brand and develop new business.

Nonprofit Agency Managment

This concentration prepares you for leadership of a non-profit organization, like smaller healthcare, welfare, or social service agencies that typically operate as nonprofits in a community. Management and leadership of such organizations depend upon sound business strategy, grant support, and effective governance for sustainability.

Wellness Leadership

This concentration expands the quality and depth of healthcare management training with a focus on working with groups, and role of nutrition and fitness in special populations.

Fairmont State University is rooted in a rich history while leading innovation into a global future. We are a comprehensive institution of higher learning set within a beautiful and hilltop landscape in America’s Appalachian Mountain region. As a Fairmont State Falcon, you will build relationships and connections that will last a lifetime, while engaging in hands-on learning with teacher-mentors who are not only experts in their fields, but also love to teach.

At Fairmont State, you’ll never take a class from a graduate assistant, and we have zero on-campus classes with more than 100 students. We’re the perfect size: Our cozy, safe campus and small class sizes (our average student-faculty ratio is 15:1) offer you incredible opportunities to practice classroom learning in real-world settings, but we’re also large enough to offer a wide range of program offerings and specializations.

Fairmont State University has unique and premier programs in Engineering Technologies, Occupational Safety, Architecture, National Security & Intelligence, Community Health Promotion, Aviation, Nursing, Education, Computer Science, and Information Systems Management (programs with a * are the only ones of their kind in the state). Alongside these special programs are dozens of other degrees in liberal arts, psychology, business, STEM fields, healthcare, and many more! We offer 40+ degree programs, and over 100 programs of study, so you’re sure to find a major that not only fulfills your interests, but also leads to a rewarding, in-demand career.

The Associate of Science in Nursing Program is accredited by:

The Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) program at Fairmont State University located in Fairmont,

WV is accredited by the:

Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), 3390 Peachtree Road, NE, Suite 1400 Atlanta, GA 30326. (404) 975-5000. The most recent accreditation decision made by the ACEN Board of Commissioners for the Associate of Science in Nursing program is continuing accreditation.

West Virginia Board of Nursing (WVBON)

The RN Board is established by the West Virginia Legislature to promote and protect public health, safety, and welfare through the regulation of registered professional nurses and dialysis technicians.