Bachelor of Science in Healthcare and Business

The Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences (BSHS) degree program includes two major choices: a Health Sciences (HS) major or a Healthcare and Business (HCB) major. Both confer a BSHS degree upon graduation. The BSHS program is designed for students interested wide variety of careers within the healthcare sector and supports students on their career discernment journey. One of the most unique characteristics of the BSHS program is co-education of future clinicians, policy makers, and health-related business/insurance executives to ensure situations are considered from all perspectives and graduates work collaboratively to solve complex health and health system problems. The flexible BSHS program allows students to change tracks within a major or change majors within the program anytime in the first two years while remaining on schedule for a traditional 4-year graduation. There are approximately 75 credit hours of courses in common between the two majors (including Butler’s core curriculum).

Healthcare and Business: In addition to the common courses, the HCB major curriculum has 35 hours of required business courses, including the courses in the healthcare management minor. The HCB major has optional concentrations available in sales and marketing, data analytics, risk management (insurance), and medical Spanish. Those going directly into the workforce upon graduation often go into positions in pharmaceutical/medical device, life science, consulting, health system, clinical research, insurance, government/public policy, or advocacy/non-profit industries. For those choosing to continue into graduate programs there are many options, the most common include business or health administration, law, and clinically focused graduate programs. There are example HCB major undergraduate curricular tracks available for those pursuing careers in optometry and dentistry (as those clinicians are often also small business mangers or owners) as well as law.

Student Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate ethical, professional, collaborative, and culturally sensitive behavior in business and healthcare settings
Integrate natural and social sciences and healthcare fundamentals with business principles
Locate, critically analyze, and apply data in a manner that supports evidence-based healthcare
Communicate effectively with laypersons and healthcare professionals on health- and business-related topic

Programs

Major

Healthcare and Business