Prepare to Lead in Health Care:
Transform Your Career, Your Organization
& Health Care Delivery

The Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) degree at Dartmouth College offers physician and executive leaders the strong foundation and the advanced skills and knowledge they need to design and lead crucial transformations within their organizations and across the health care industry.

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  • Dartmouth MHCDS Program Overview

    The 12-month degree program allows you to advance your career while gaining an exceptional Ivy-League education.

  • Blend of MBA and MPH Skills

    Students at Dartmouth share perspectives and learn from a tightly-focused, highly relevant curriculum that brings the best of an MBA and an MPH.

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  • Accomplished Physicians and Executives across Health Care

    Our students work in vitally important positions with strenuous demands on their time. They come from a wide breadth of backgrounds in health care, from physicians to administrators to policymakers and insurance executives. They are drawn to Dartmouth to grow new capabilities with immediate payoff and long term impact on their careers and on the organizations in which they work.

  • Hybrid Delivery Structure

    The hybrid structure of the Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) program blends brief on-campus periods of networking and relationship building with flexible, online coursework—to allow you to develop leadership skills and cutting-edge knowledge without compromising your career.

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  • Class of 2026
    Cathie Jones, MD

    Cathie Jones, MD

    Pediatric Anesthesiologist and Director of Quality Improvement
    Boston Children's Hospital

    “A few months into my coursework at MHCDS, I took the director role in Quality Improvement for my division. The course work helped me to feel more at ease in talking with administrators. I understand the terminology they use better, have more appreciation for what they are balancing, and feel that I can better advocate for the resources we need to meet our collective goals for both our patients and our teams.”

  • Dartmouth Health Care Management Education Degree Comparison

    Health Care Management Education at Dartmouth is home to two master's programs. Learn which will help you achieve your goals.

  • MHCDS vs. MHA

  • Master of Health Care Delivery Science Compared

    The Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) is designed for accomplished clinical and executive leaders with significant professional experience (10+ years). The curriculum develops competencies in health care strategy and innovation, finance, managing people and organizational change, health economics and policy, population health, data-informed decision making, and leadership.

    Meet our MHCDS students

  • Master of Health Administration Compared

    The Master of Health Administration (MHA) is geared towards early and mid-career health professionals who are seeking to become leaders and pursue advanced careers in health care administration. Designed for those in their first decade of professional experience, students learn foundational skills and build competencies in accounting and finance, health systems, managing people, economics, and operations.

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Join the Best Minds in Health Care

The best teaching and research faculty from the Tuck School of Business and the Geisel School of Medicine blends with a cohort of professional students with their own expertise to create an incubator and accelerator of innovative solutions to the challenges faced in health care today.
  • Class of 2023

    Tim Ekpo, DO, MHCDS

    Medical Director Joint Replacement Services
    Henry Ford Health System

    “The MHCDS program has world class faculty that are committed to teaching at the highest level. The program truly put together an amazing cohort of experienced executive leaders in their field. Over the course of the year, we learned just as much from each other’s professional experiences as we did from our studies.”

  • Faculty
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    Katherine Milligan, MBA, PhD

    Associate Dean Health Care Management Education
    Dartmouth College

    “My faculty colleagues at Geisel and Tuck cherish the opportunity to work with such talented and experienced students. The brief residential sessions are intense by design as they help build the tight community of students and faculty, which makes the online portion of the program so effective.”

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