Broaden Your Opportunities with an Online Health Science Major

The Online Integrative Health Care (IHC) program is a health science major offering students a broad-based understanding of the principles of human health and disease, the theories underlying healing practices, and the scientific research methods needed to evaluate the latest techniques in this dynamic field. For students who plan to complete graduate work in medicine, a bachelor of health science program is an ideal foundation to a graduate health science degree program. The Integrative Health Care is one of several online health care degrees offered at MSU Denver. The IHC program offers an online major, online minor, and an option to pursue Men’s Health as a concentration or minor.

Career opportunities that align well with an online bachelor of health science include:

  • Wellness Coaching
  • Public Health

Career opportunities that require additional credentials or graduate work include:

  • Addictions Services
  • Alternative Medicine
  • Acupuncture/Traditional Chinese medicine
    Anthropology
  • Aromatherapy
  • Ayurvedic medicine
  • Chiropractic medicine
  • Conventional medicine
  • Ethnobotany
  • Herbal medicine
  • Homeopathy
  • Traditional/Indigenous Medicine
  • Wellness Coaching
  • Mental health counseling
  • Naturopathic medicine
  • Nursing
  • Occupational therapy
  • Osteopathic medicine
  • Physical therapy
  • Psychology
  • Public health
  • Social work

In-person and hybrid options are also available.

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Online Medical Degrees Prepare You for Health Care and Beyond

If you’re interested in becoming a health care practitioner, online medical degrees are a good place to start. The Integrative Health Care, B.S. at MSU Denver fulfills most graduate school requirements. MSU Denver graduates of the Integrative Health Care undergraduate degree program have been accepted into the following conventional and naturopathic medical programs:

  • Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
  • MSU Denver School of Nursing
  • Bastyr University
  • National University of Natural Medicine
  • Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine
  • University of Colorado School of Medicine
  • National University of Health Sciences Chiropractic College

How will the IHC Health Science Major Impact You?

Integrative Health Care is a fully online health science major that will prepare you to:

  • Demonstrate an attitude of caring, flexibility, and self-confidence in a health care setting.
  • Act in an ethical and legal manner in applying the leadership roles of collaborator, resource person, change agent, teacher, and advocate.
  • Integrate a variety of communication skills, media techniques, and strategies effectively and appropriately to influence health.
  • Assess health situations and recommend appropriate healing practices.
  • Evaluate global health systems to identify social and health-care trends in order to anticipate the future of health care.
  • Apply scientific method to health-care problems.
  • Apply knowledge of natural science principles in a healing practice.
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Analicia B., MSU Denver ’12,

The professors find ways to challenge me not only academically, but on a personal and global level as well. The environment within the Integrative Health Care program has been open-minded and accepting. The professors have helped me refine my personal values and identify the common thread that has guided me to the career path I’m going into now.

Mariah Master (MSU Denver '17)

“Choosing the Health Care Management program at MSU Denver as my undergrad major was the best decision I could have made. The program curriculum was diverse, offering a wide-range of courses specifically tailored to the challenges experienced in the health care industry both in the past and present day. The Health Care Management program offered me a well-rounded education with exceptional support from the highly knowledgeable, experienced and compassionate faculty. Through the internship component of the program, I was able to kick-start my career in health care, as this allowed me to gain the real-world experience needed to set me apart from the competition. The accessibility, quality and real-world applicability of the Health Care Management program make it a top choice for those who wish to develop a career in this industry.”

Analicia B., MSU Denver ’12, works in nonprofit health care outreach.

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Hoe Much Does The Online Integrative Health Care, B.S. Cost and is There Financial Aid?

Low in-state tuition, reduced tuition for western states, scholarships exclusive to online majors, and flexibility to take as many or few classes as you want, all make MSU Denver the affordable online choice.

Colorado Residents

As low as $315.20 /credit*

Example: 12 credits – $4,703.36 total including tuition & fees.

*Colorado Opportunity Fund (COF) reduces per-credit costs for eligible Colorado residents.

Not in Colorado? (WUE/RIT)

As low as $646.80 /credit

Example: 12 credits – $7761.60 total including tuition & fees.

Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE) and Roadrunner Interstate Tuition (RIT) reduce nonresident costs for certain states.

Scholarships for Fully Online Majors

Declare a fully online major and you may qualify for up to $1,000 per semester (fall/spring). No separate scholarship application is required.
Learn more about eligibility and how it works.

Exclusively online students save over $100 per semester in fees compared to on-campus students.

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Figures shown are example 2025–26 rates.

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  2. Tell us you plan to study fully online to qualify for up to $1,000 per semester in scholarship funds

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Admission at a glance

You are typically eligible for admission if you have a 2.0 or higher unweighted high school GPA, are 20 or older with a high school diploma or GED, or have 24 or more transferable college credits.

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