- Professionals with a minimum of 2 years experience working within healthcare-related fields
- Professional achievements
- Academic excellence
- Leadership potential
INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS: At this time, we do not offer I-20 certificates for students in the Healthcare Leadership master's program due to the blended low-residency/online program formats. Other visa types are not supported for studying in the United States. If you do not require a visa to study in the United States, but received your degree(s) outside of the United States, we require a course-by-course credential evaluation sent directly from any of the following: World Education Services (WES) Course-By-Course Evaluation; Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE) Course By Course Evaluation; SpanTran Course Analysis to: Masters_Admissions@brown.edu.
To complete your application, submit the following via the online application system. Please note, the GRE/GMAT is not required.
Please submit an official transcript for all programs, both undergraduate and graduate, for which you were awarded a degree. Please note that unofficial transcripts may be uploaded to the online application, but official transcripts are required prior to the program start date. Please have all official transcripts emailed to: Professional@brown.edu.
As part of the online application you will need to prepare a personal statement that addresses why you want to pursue the Master of Science in Healthcare Leadership at Brown, what you hope to learn from the program, and how your participation will enrich the experience of others in the program (approximately 500 words).
- Description of Critical Challenge
This critical challenge will become the focus of your independent study in the Critical Challenge Project course throughout the duration of the program. Describe a critical challenge related to your field and interests, drawing from your own experience and vision for the future.
In your submission (500 – 1000 words) you should address, in four clearly marked sections:
- The complexity and challenges of the problem in the current environment,
- Technical, organizational, and social barriers and constraints,
- The specific work you anticipate completing while a student at Brown that will advance solutions to the problem, and
- Deliverables for your project besides a report, if any.
- Letters of Recommendation
You will be required to give the names and email addresses for three professional colleagues who will submit a letter of recommendation on your behalf. One letter should come from your present or past supervisor or from a more senior executive in your organization. You do not need to wait for their letters of recommendation to be submitted for you to submit your application.
The reference will be asked:
- For how long and in what capacity have you known the applicant? If you have experience with the applicant in an academic setting, please comment on their academic performance and potential. Finally, any relevant information you would like to share is welcome.
- We would appreciate your opinion on the candidate’s career achievements, strengths and weaknesses, initiative, creativity, their ability to contribute in a peer-to-peer learning environment, and how the program fits with the candidate’s career aspirations.
The sponsoring organization should prepare one letter that identifies all team members with their current roles and responsibilities, and the expected benefits of sending them as a team. On their individual applications, each team member should indicate that they are part of a team, and one team member should submit the letter from the sponsoring organization.