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Earning a Doctor of Health Administration (DHA) in Operational Leadership can help you position yourself to be a potential leader and innovator in the field of healthcare administration. This program allows you to design innovative, quantitative approaches to healthcare operations that address efficiency, quality, safety and outcome. As a DHA learner, you will be taught the skills to apply theoretical and research knowledge to practical situations and settings in order to influence and improve existing practices and policies.
By pursuing GCU’s Doctor of Healthcare Administration: Operational Leadership – quantitative track, you will focus on analyzing approaches to operational leadership by interpreting numeric data. You will progress through coursework taught from the perspective of doing, with classes designed based on a quantitative research focus. In every class, you will have the opportunity to make clear steps toward the completion of the dissertation.
The operational leadership program strives to prepare you to continue to develop theoretical knowledge in the healthcare industry and to apply that knowledge to the improvement of practice. These proficiencies offer you the necessary skill set to drive innovation within healthcare administration and its approaches to leadership.
As a graduate of the DHA in Operational Leadership, you have the opportunity to position yourself for leadership roles in:
Health system management
Healthcare operations
Healthcare research
Health policy
Learn more about the quantitative DHA: Operational Leadership program at GCU by completing the form and connecting with a university counselor.
§ MOU-Alumni 2000 Doctoral-July2025: The Alumni Scholarship for Doctoral Programs is only valid for those applicants who submit a complete application and begin a Doctoral program in July 2025. This scholarship cannot be used in conjunction with any other GCU scholarship or awards and only applies to online and evening programs. Please speak to a university counselor for complete details.
To learn more about time to completion and the dissertation process at GCU, visit our doctoral page.
Online: $750 per credit [More Info]
Up to 9 doctoral credits
Credits: Fill out the Lopes Eval to find out what will transfer
Admission Requirements (Doctoral)
OR 2.5+ Unweighted GPA and
Admission requirements may differ based on degree level, program and modality, or transfer status. Some programs of study may require a higher GPA and/or other qualifying criteria for admission. Please review full admission and program requirements in the University Policy Handbook.
* Degree must be from an institutionally accredited school. Applicants with a GPA less than 3.4 may be accepted with specifications.
** Degree must be from an institutionally accredited school. Applicants with a GPA between 3.0 - 3.39 may be accepted with specifications. Applicants with a GPA below 3.0 will not be accepted.
