Headlines about health care reform, spiraling costs for treatment and medicine, and disparities in the availability and quality of health care have led to more awareness of health care ethics.

The online Master of Science in Health Care Ethics from Creighton University educates students in this complex field with few easy answers, touching on historical, cultural, philosophical, political, economic and legal aspects of an area also known as bioethics.

An interdisciplinary degree offered through Creighton’s Center for Health Policy and Ethics (CHPE), the online M.S. in Health Care Ethics is an ideal degree for those who work in health care or related fields and want to become more effective in their current roles, such as physicians, nurses, hospital administrators, public health managers and chaplains.

In 2011 U.S. News & World Report ranked Creighton University as the #1 master’s degree granting university in the Midwest.

It is the eighth consecutive year that Creighton has been named No. 1 and the 24th straight year the University has been ranked at or near the top of the magazine’s “America’s Best Colleges” edition.