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Meeting the needs of aspiring and working healthcare professionals.

The School of Professional Studies was created to provide multiple learning pathways for current and aspiring healthcare professionals. Coursework allows students to earn credentials to begin or advance healthcare careers, to build skills, knowledge, and expertise, and to enrich their career opportunities. The school will offer prerequisite courses for students who seek to enter professional healthcare programs, certificate programs and other micro-credentials that target skill development, professional growth, and enhanced career opportunities for healthcare specialists, and executive and professional education programs for organizations.

  • Foundational Courses

    Delivering self-paced prerequisites required for admission into healthcare degree programs.

  • Industry Relationships

    Cultivating institutional collaborations with area healthcare and health related organizations.

  • Program Flexibility

    Offering credit-bearing and noncredit programs on the MCPHS campuses, online, and through hybrid delivery formats with an emphasis on creating convenient and accessible opportunities for students to meet their career goals.

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Lead the future of healthcare.

Through the School of Professional Studies, you can balance career advancement with the rest of your life by studying online, on your schedule. This is world-class healthcare training. No shortcuts. You will be trained by the same faculty who train our undergraduate and graduate students as you earn sought-after professional certificates.

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