Master in Healthcare Leadership
Helsinki, Finland
DURATION
1 up to 3 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Aug 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 12,000 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
* The application has closed. The previous application was open 8–22 January 2025.
Key Summary
Introduction
The online master’s degree program Healthcare Leadership will support you in becoming a change leader. The Nordic social and healthcare sector faces rapid shifts brought about by digitalisation, privatisation and demographic changes. Especially the development in health technology has with the recent implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) evolved rapidly and calls for leaders that can understand and utilize health technology and effectively harness innovation.
In this programme, you will be allowed to explore new leadership techniques, discover your leadership strengths and expand your professional horizon. The programme consists of two main focus areas; Healthcare Leadership and Health Technology.
Within Healthcare Leadership we focus on the broad overview of leadership theories, change and transformational leadership, personal leadership behaviour, team-behaviour, cultural awareness, and systems thinking. You will get a broad overview of leadership theories and learn the creative and critical thinking skills required for successful leadership. The focus on Health Technology provides a broad overview of health technology healthcare and focuses on healthcare leadership in the age of Artificial Intelligence.
You will analyse, critically evaluate and develop both projects and your leadership style. The programme also makes you eligible for doctoral studies.
You can choose between completing the programme in one and a half years (full-time studies) or three years (part-time studies).
Arcada – a window to the Nordics
Arcada, with its wide Nordic network and long experience of leadership in the social and healthcare sector, is a self-evident home for master studies combining healthcare and leadership from a Nordic perspective. The common Nordic landscape for future healthcare arrangements offers us a dynamic and interesting starting point for learning and exploring different best practices.
Flexible and completely online
We offer a flexible online study programme which enables you to work alongside your studies. With several years of experience in delivering degrees online, you can rest assured that the online tuition at Arcada is of high quality. Our pedagogics are rooted in problem-based and student-driven learning. We believe that learning happens when you get to be active and ask questions. However, our teachers continuously offer you support, guidance and feedback, ensuring that you are not left alone with your studies.
In practice, all lectures, coaching and assignments are handled online. Lectures will usually be held on Tuesdays from 15:00–to 17:00, except the Leadership online conference in February which is an all-day event. We expect you to take part in online discussions once a week, usually in the evenings. There are only online lectures (no campus visits are needed) and there are no lectures during weekends.
Duration
- 1.5 or 3 years
Student Testimonials
Admissions
Curriculum
You do assignments individually and as group work. The master’s thesis project (30 ECTS) is a development and research project to develop Nordic healthcare. The project gives you the possibility to specialise according to your interests. Through the thesis project, you get to demonstrate your skills to systematically work solutions to a practical problem.
Professional Studies (60 ECTS)
Leadership for Future Nordic Healthcare Sector
- Healthcare Leadership
- Change Leadership
- Optional Studies
- Service Design in Healthcare
Sustainable Nordic Healthcare
- Nordic Healthcare in Transition
- Research Methodology
Ethical and Digital Nordic Healthcare
- Ethical and Digital Nordic Healthcare
- Advanced Methodology
Research Studies (30 ECTS)
Specialized Research Studies
- Master Thesis
Program Tuition Fee
Program Outcome
What you will learn
- Leadership competence
- Change and innovative competence
- Collective sensemaking competence
- Technological and ethical competence
- Applied advanced research competence
As development and digital communication is in focus, you will also strengthen your competencies to:
- Work proactively and multi professionally contributing to smart service development and digital communication with the client at the centre
- Compare and evaluate knowledge about digital innovations
- Understand the principles of user-centred service design to be applied in healthcare
Scholarships and Funding
Arcada does not grant scholarships for master’s students, but we do have an early bird offer (see more information above).
One exception is made in the form of a scholarship offered to asylum seekers, refugees and persons who have applied for temporary protection in Finland and who would otherwise be liable to pay tuition fees. This scholarship covers the entire tuition fee for the first academic year without any requirements for academic performance. To be granted the scholarship, the fee-paying students must provide documentation of their status to Arcada's admissions service. Thereafter, to maintain the scholarship, students only need to show that their status has not changed for each new academic year.
Facilities
Program Admission Requirements
Demonstrate your commitment and readiness to succeed in business school by taking the GMAT exam – the most widely used exam for admissions that measures your critical thinking and reasoning skills.
Download the GMAT mini quiz to get a flavour of the questions you’ll find in the exam.