Healthcare Administration (MHA) Partnership with Boston College
Start your path to healthcare leadership before you graduate.
Through a partnership with Boston College, Canisius students in any major can complete graduate eligible coursework as undergraduates and transition directly into Boston College’s online Master of Healthcare Administration.
How It Works
Start as an undergraduate
Students from any Canisius major can begin approved graduate-level healthcare administration coursework during their senior year, creating early momentum toward the master’s degree.
Transfer eligible credits
Qualified students may transfer up to six graduate credits from Canisius into Boston College’s Master of Healthcare Administration, allowing completed coursework to count toward two graduate courses.
Benefit from streamlined admission
The pathway includes a simplified quick application, waived application fee, no GRE requirement and facilitated admission review for students who meet the eligibility criteria.
Continue seamlessly at Boston College
After earning their bachelor’s degree, students transition directly into Boston College’s fully online MHA program, with flexible full- and part-time options, three start dates each year and completion possible in as few as 12 months.
Why this Healthcare Administration pathway?
Designed to simplify the transition to graduate study, the Canisius–Boston College partnership removes common application hurdles and creates a more direct path into the MHA. Benefits include:
- Streamlined “quick app” application process
- Graduate application fee waiver
- GRE waiver
- Facilitated admission review
- Possible transfer of approved graduate coursework
- 10% tuition discount
- Fully online full- or part-time study options
- Three start dates each year
Course Credit Details
Qualified students may be eligible to transfer up to six graduate credits from Canisius into the Boston College MHA, allowing those courses to count as two graduate courses toward the degree.
In addition, students may take up to eight Boston College graduate credits before, during or after their senior year, creating a flexible pathway that can accelerate time to degree completion.
Student Eligibility
Qualified Canisius students must:
- be on track to successfully complete their bachelor’s degree by the end of senior year
- maintain a minimum cumulative 3.0 GPA
- submit all Boston College Healthcare Administration application materials by the published deadline
A Jesuit pathway to leadership
What makes this partnership especially distinctive is the continuity of mission. Students move from one Jesuit institution to another while staying rooted in an educational tradition that values reflection, ethical leadership and service to others.
For students interested in shaping the future of healthcare through compassionate, data-informed leadership, the Canisius–Boston College pathway offers a direct and meaningful next step.