Bachelor’s Programme in Health Administration,
3 Years, 180 credits.

1. Programme Responsibility
The Faculty of Social Sciences University of Tromsø, is responsible for the programme through a board. The programme is a co-operation between the Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and the Norwegian College of Fishery Science. The programme language is Norwegian.

2. Programme coordinator
The Programme Board.

3. Admission Requirement
University admission certification.

4. Qualification awarded
Bachelor of Health Administration

5. Programme Description
The programme is a multidisciplinary study that combines health related, administrative and economic subjects. The study programme aims to give a broad background in disease knowledge and community medicine, skills in organization theory, economics and methodology as well as understandings for ethics and politics.

6. Competence Aims
The overall aim of the study is to give the necessary professional background for work in administration and management in the health services. The study offers the combination of economic/administrative competence, health knowledge and ethical understanding. This is achieved through the multidisciplinary design of the study. Graduates of the study will qualify to a master’s programme in public health or, through a special adjustment the third year, to a master’s programme in political science at the University of Tromsø.

The programme has two fields of specialization that respectively qualifies for a master’s programme in public health or political science, depending on the chosen field of specialization. The specialization is chosen in the second semester.

7. Academic Organization
The bachelor’s programme in health administration is a complete study programme consisting of 16 different courses. The courses are described at point 7 below. The individual courses are offered by different institutes at the Faculty of Social Science, The Medical Faculty and the Norwegian College of Fishery Science.

The tables in point 7 show which courses that are included in the two different fields of specialization.

As a main rule, all courses will run throughout the semester, which means that subjects must be studied simultaneously.

8. Student exchange
Many universities abroad offer this kind of multidisciplinary study. Staying abroad for one or two semesters should be possible to arrange.

9. Types of teaching and exam.
The courses will have a variety of teaching and exam types, as lectures, seminars, colloquia and essays, file evaluation and school exams.

Reposition exams will be processed separately in the different course plans. The grading system is a scale of five levels, from A-E for passed exam and F for failed, or passed/failed.

10. Progression (guiding)
For students who want qualification for a master’s programme in public health, choose specialization shown in table 1.
For students who want qualification to a master’s programme in political science, choose specialization shown in table 2.

Table 1: Bachelor’s Programme in Health Administration- normal variant.

Table 2: Bachelor’s Programme in Health Administration with specialization in political science.

Table 1: