College... College...? COLLEGE!

So I finalized my Fall 2014 semester class schedule this morning. 6 classes (18 units) will be taking over most of my life come August 25th as follows:

HCA312 - Health Personnel Management
Tuesdays 8am-10:45am

HCA341 - Financial Management for Health Care

Tuesdays and Thursdays 2pm-3:15pm

HCA410 - Health Management Organization

Thursdays 8am-10:45am

HCA416 - Management and Information Systems

Wednesays 4pm-6:45pm

HCA422 - Global Issues in Health Services

Thursdays 7pm-9:45pm

HCA465 - Analysis and Evaluation

Tuesdays 4pm-6:45pm

I have eight more classes to take after this semester, which are:

HSC400 (taking in the winter session)
HCA353, HCA450, HCA480, HCA340, HCA417, CHLS470 (taking in the spring semester) 

HCA481 (taking in the summer session)

My ceremony is on May 22nd, 2015 but I don't actually finish my program until later that year in August. I'm really excited to be almost finished.

I've been looking into the best graduate programs in the United States for my intended Masters major and my top two choices from that list are University of Washington, Seattle and University of California, San Diego. But UCSD's requirements state that applicants must have five years of health setting administrative experience, which I obviously won't have when I want to attend grad school (which is 2017). But then UW's out of state tuition is crazy expensive, unless Fernando and I get married, then I can pay for in state tuition... I'll have to talk to him about it. 

I'm not all about the salary for the profession I want to get into, but healthcare administrators on average (with a masters) make 80k a year, which for a starting salary ain't so bad. Education really is an investment... So yeah, I'll spend the 16k on my undergraduate degree and the 50k on my graduate degree. It'll all be worth it, especially if I make it worth it.

Until next time,

Anna Prado