Healthcare Administration Degrees

Healthcare administration rankings

Healthcare Administration Programs, Ranked

368 programs at 364 institutions, scored on graduation rate, tuition, delivery and selectivity against the published methodology. The occupation these degrees lead to pays a national median of $123,860.

Healthcare Administration Degrees by Award Level

Associate in healthcare administration 115 two-year programs, where the same credential costs $3,119 a year at a public college and 5.3 times that at a for-profit. Bachelor's in healthcare administration All 368 ranked programs, with state-by-state breakdowns of cost, completion and what the work pays locally. Master's in healthcare administration Every one of the 103 CAHME-accredited programs, named in full, out of 414 in the federal data. Doctorate in healthcare administration All 35 doctoral programs in the country, 22 of them online, with the research and practice doctorates told apart.

Healthcare Administration Rankings by State

Alabama Arizona California Colorado Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

Why These Rankings Are Split by Award Level

The four levels are scored on different models, and two of them are not scored at all, because the federal data reports different things about each. The dividing line is undergraduate against graduate. IPEDS publishes graduation rate, tuition and admission rate for first-time undergraduates, so associate and bachelor's programs are scored on figures that describe the students the row is about.

On a master's or doctoral row those same institutional undergraduate figures are attached to a graduate program, which makes them worse than missing. A doctorate's "graduation rate" in this data is the university's freshman completion rate. So neither graduate tier is ranked on them: the master's page orders by accreditation and scale, and the doctorate page orders by degrees conferred and says plainly that it is not a quality ranking.

What master's programs do have is accreditation, and it is the thing that decides what a graduate can apply for afterwards. 103 of the 414 in the data hold it. Scoring the two levels on one model would have meant either ignoring accreditation at master's level or inventing completion figures that do not exist, so there are two models and both are published in full.

Why the State Pages Matter More Than the National List

Tuition is charged at in-state rates that only apply where you live, and the wage this degree leads to varies by more than seventy thousand dollars between the best and worst paying states. A national ranking puts the same list in front of everyone and is wrong for most of them. Each state page carries the local programs against the local wage, which is the comparison that actually decides whether a degree pays for itself.