Lead Health Systems. Improve Care Delivery. Turn Healthcare Experience Into Doctoral Impact.

Healthcare organisations operate in one of the most complex leadership environments. They must balance patient care, quality, cost, access, workforce challenges, regulation, technology, public expectations, and long-term sustainability. Strong healthcare leaders need more than management experience. They need evidence, strategy, research capability, and the ability to improve systems that affect lives.

The DBA Healthcare Management offered through UCC eCampus is designed for experienced professionals who want to turn healthcare leadership and management experience into applied doctoral research. This professional doctorate helps learners investigate real healthcare and organisational challenges, develop evidence-based solutions, strengthen health systems leadership, and contribute practical knowledge to healthcare management, quality improvement, governance, service delivery, and institutional performance.

Through UCC eCampus, learners can study flexibly while continuing to work, engaging with online learning resources, academic materials, research support, doctoral supervision, scholarly discussions, assignments, and applied research activities through a structured digital learning environment.

1. National ID – Valid Ghana Card (for nationals) and Valid Passport (for international students). (A Refugee Identity Card, residence permit or UN travel document shall be treated as National citizens (based on University’s discretion))
2. Official Degree and Transcripts in English. Applicants with qualifications (Degree/Transcript) not in English are required to give a translated version of their degree(s).
3. All foreign applicants should apply to the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) for the credential evaluation of their degree (This process should be completed by the Applicant)
4. Regarding submission of Proof of English:
   1. Submission of Proof of English as Medium of Learning/Instruction is NOT A MANDATORY requirement for degrees obtained from Countries with English as Official Language and Language of Instruction.
   2. Submission of Proof of English as the Medium of Learning/Instruction is MANDATORY for degrees obtained from countries where English is NOT the Official Language and Language of Instruction.

   *Final Decision for determination of Countries with English as Official Language and Language of Instruction shall be at the discretion of the University

5. Interview/Online Entrance Exam can be an on-demand additional requirement from university where applicable

*The University reserves the right to request additional information, documentation, assessments, or verification procedures as deemed necessary before making a final admission decision.

Healthcare leaders are expected to solve problems that affect patients, professionals, communities, and institutions. They must improve service quality, manage limited resources, support staff, strengthen governance, respond to changing health needs, and make decisions based on evidence rather than assumption.

The DBA Healthcare Management at UCC eCampus helps you build that next level of capability. You will learn how to investigate complex healthcare management problems, apply advanced research methods, evaluate organisational and health systems evidence, and translate doctoral research into practical recommendations that improve healthcare delivery, patient experience, quality, governance, and institutional performance.

This programme is ideal if you want to move from healthcare management to healthcare thought leadership, from experience-based decisions to evidence-based improvement, and from professional responsibility to doctoral-level authority in healthcare management practice.