Healthcare Admin Students: Source List for Scholarships

Healthcare issues are huge in the 21st century and with that comes a massive drive to nurture new blood in Healthcare Administration. This means impelling experienced healthcare professionals, like nurses and allied health staff to pursue higher degrees and migrate into management and administrative roles where their hard-won experience can be effective in the Big Picture. Or to encourage new students to directly enter the field of Healthcare Administration. Incentives? Scholarships money.

Private Sources for Healthcare Administration Scholarships

  • The Association of University Programs in Health Administration is a massive collective of sources, including students, scholars, professionals, hospitals, and schools. The organization offers a selection of scholarships intended to provide critical financial support and incentive to students studying within this field.
  • The Healthcare Information and Management System Society (HIMSS) sponsors the Healthcare information Management Systems Scholarship. This award is designed to reward undergraduates, graduates and PhD. students with simultaneous cash scholarships. Awards are $5,000. Second scholarship is the Richard Covert, PhD FHIMSS Scholarship. This $5,000 prize goes to an outstanding student in any degree level motivated and dedicated to the field of healthcare management systems engineering.
  • The HIMSS has a handful of state and regional chapters that also offer nice scholarships. New York, Florida, New England, and Northern California chapters all sponsor scholarships.
  • The American College of Healthcare Executives administers a number of very well-known scholarships, especially for graduate students in the field. The ACHE also sponsors a minority internship for eligible undergraduate students.

College and University Sources

If you’re discounting the scholarship opps available through your college then you are carelessly leaving money on the table, so to speak. Beyond the general scholarships for merit and need offered through your school’s Finaid or Scholarship department, you should ask department faculty for a list of any scholarships or fellowships for which you may be eligible. Examples:

  • The University of Minnesota’s Health Policy and Management Department annually raises funds to help support its enrolled undergraduates and graduates. Students may have access to academic funds, as well as those earmarked for travel and research.
  • California State University-Long Beach sponsors the Latino Healthcare Professionals Project. This scholarship-based program aims to grease the pathway to Healthcare Admin careers for Latino students. Here is a vastly underrepresented population in healthcare and one that will make a major impact on the U.S. healthcare system. Eligible students must be first generation college students. Awards cover two years of full-tuition plus a paid summer internship PLUS mentoring.