MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing
Budapest, Hungary
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
31 May 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
01 Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 3,500 / per semester *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for non-EU/EEA students| EU/EEA students: EUR 1550 per semester
Introduction
One of the great challenges of the 21st century is to increase the healthy life expectancy – i.e. to promote a qualitative instead of a quantitative paradigm – with a coherent physical, mental and emotional approach to health, as well as strengthening prevention and rehabilitation in addition to treatment. An important element in achieving these goals is an appropriate health policy framework and an efficient, high-quality and affordable healthcare system.
ELTE's Health Policy Planning and Financing MSc program approaches health policy and its financing with a transdisciplinary social science perspective, including not only the main orienting knowledge of economics, health- and public policy, finance and statistics but also in a holistic view of health and wellbeing other disciplines like sociology, epidemiology, psychology and legal-ethical knowledge are integrated into its curriculum. It will also focus on the different stakeholders involved in healthcare planning and management, financing and delivery at local, regional, national and international levels.
Graduates can find a wide range of employment opportunities in both the public and private sectors: central and regional health administration organizations, the National Health Insurance Fund, healthcare institutions (hospitals, complex care organizations), pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and distributors, voluntary health insurance funds, commercial insurers, non-profit organizations, as well as educational and research centres and the media.
Ideal Students
We recommend the programme to those who:
- wish to combine their medical/social science knowledge with skills and competencies offered by this programme
- want to understand the complexities of health systems
- value quality-based approaches in system assessment and optimization projects
- seek ways to include low-level stakeholders in community problem-solving
Admissions
Curriculum
- Basic economics (full-time/part-time)
- Introduction to health economics (full-time/part-time)
- Introduction to health policy (full-time / part-time)
- Health law and ethics (full-time / part-time)
- Public health (full-time / part-time)
- Basic Statistics (full-time)
- Basic Statistics (part-time)
- Epidemiology (full-time / part-time)
- Principles of health economic evaluation (full-time / part-time)
- Health policy in the European Union (full-time / part-time)
- Health Financing (full-time / part-time)
- Introduction to health services organisation (full-time / part-time)
- Planning and management of public health projects (full-time / part-time)
- Corporate economics (full-time / part-time)
- Information technology in health research (full-time / part-time)
- Statistical methods in health care analyses (full-time)
- Statistical methods in health care analyses (part-time)
- Methodology of economic modelling in health care (1) (full-time/part-time)
- Methodology of economic modelling in health care (2) (full-time/part-time)
- Measurement of Patient Reported Outcomes (full-time/part-time)
- Financing health technologies
- Health technology assessment (full-time)
- Health technology assessment (part-time)
- Principles of pharmaceutical policy
- Market access and marketing (full-time/part-time)
- Thesis seminar (1) (full-time/part-time)
- Thesis seminar (2) (full-time/part-time)
- Sociology of health (full-time/part-time)
- Meta-analysis (full-time/part-time)
- Measurement of health system performance (full-time/part-time)
- Regional planning and coordination of care (full-time/part-time)
- Human resources management in health care (full-time/part-time)
- Quality improvement in healthcare (full-time/part-time)
- Strategic planning and management in health care organisations (full-time/part-time)
- Optimization and game theory for decision-making (full-time/part-time)
- Önkéntes biztosítás az egészségügyben (available only in Hungarian) (full-time / part-time)
- Pénzügyi és számviteli ismeretek (available only in Hungarian) (full-time / part-time)
- Strategic pricing and marketing of health technologies (full-time/part-time)
Career Opportunities
Our programme prepares students for career positions in both the private and public sectors. This includes healthcare governance and financing at national and local levels, and careers at pharmaceutical companies, public and private healthcare providers, as well as education and research institutions.
Job examples
- Policy Advisor in Health Policy
- Market Access Manager at an international pharmaceutical company
- Analyst at a health technology analysis institute
- Manager at a health fund
- Strategic Director at a health insurance company