Colorado has one public option among the 4 healthcare administration
programs in Colorado, and it comes 4th of 4.
Most readers arrive with a sensible default, that the state school will be the
cheap and solid choice. In this particular state that default picks the
lowest-scoring program on the list.
32%
Public completion
48%
Private average
$134,910
State median pay
8th
Pay rank of 51
All 4 Healthcare Administration Programs in Colorado, Ranked
All 4 ranked healthcare administration bachelor programs in Colorado, with tuition, graduation rate and score
#
School
Type
In-state tuition
Graduation rate
Admission rate
Degrees awarded
Score
1
Regis
Private nonprofit
$23,700
61%
86%
14
63
2
Colorado Christian
Private nonprofit
$27,631
64%
25
60.6
3
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Public
$9,135
32%
99%
34
54.9
4
Colorado Technical University-Colorado Springs
Private for-profit
$12,090
19%
247
48.4
The best completion record belongs to Colorado Christian University, which finishes 64% of the students it enrolls against 61% at the top of the list. It places 2nd rather than first because graduation rate carries 40% of the score and tuition, delivery and selectivity carry the rest. Price and placement come apart sharply here. Regis University leads the ranking, but Metropolitan State University of Denver charges $9,135 a year, less than half what the top program asks, and it still places 3rd of 4. All 4 run fully online, so where you live does not narrow this table.
Regis now presents Health Care Administration as a major within its accelerated Business Administration B.S., with online five- or eight-week terms.
You can transfer up to 75 credits into the degree. The program combines a business foundation with healthcare policy, delivery systems and information systems, and offers starts in January, March, May, June, August and October.
Named course examples include Assessment of Quality Care and Patient Safety, Project Management in the Health Care Sector, and Foundations of Health Law. Those courses address patient experience, project planning, workflow analysis, privacy and risk management. Regis also describes a FastForward option for combining undergraduate and graduate study, which applicants can compare with the standalone bachelor's route.
Health Care Administration major within the B.S.B.A.
Colorado Christian organizes its Healthcare Administration B.S. around one course at a time, usually in five-week blocks, with a Christian perspective throughout.
The degree requires 120 credits, including a 36-credit major core. Its focus includes healthcare statistics and informatics, regulation, and the financial decisions involved in delivering care. Ethical questions, quality of life and interactions with patients and colleagues are discussed through the university's Christian worldview.
The program sits in CCU's adult and graduate studies college. You can bring previous college work for transfer review, and the short course blocks allow multiple entry points during the year. Your completed credits determine how much of the bachelor's remains, rather than a single completion time applying to every student.
MSU Denver's online Health Care Management B.S. includes aging services, global health and healthcare law alongside finance and organizational management.
You can take every class online. The university states that the program holds AUPHA certification, and its Department of Health Professions provides advising and internship support. Coursework considers hospitals, insurers, clinics, public health agencies and aging services as parts of the same care system.
The subjects extend from quality improvement and health information systems to research methods, human resources and health disparities. Internship opportunities connect those subjects with work in healthcare organizations. Online students also have access to tutoring and dedicated success coaches as they plan their courses around other responsibilities.
CTU's Healthcare Management B.S. studies patient access and revenue-cycle management, with a general track and an Informatics concentration.
The degree is offered online and at the campus in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its 180-credit plan assigns 51 credits to general education, 109 to the healthcare management core and 20 to electives defining a concentration. Courses run in five-week blocks.
You study reimbursement, project management, healthcare economics, marketing and human resources. The curriculum also examines privacy and compliance, including HIPAA, and compares healthcare delivery systems. CTU identifies this as a management degree that does not confer additional professional licensure or certification, a distinction to keep in mind when comparing it with a clinical qualification.
Top ten in the country on the median, on a workforce of moderate size. Pay is
not the constraint in Colorado; the short list of programs is, and the choice
among those four is the whole of the decision.
Wage figures for medical and health services managers in this state
Median
$134,910
Above national median
$11,050
Pay rank
8th of 51
Employed
8,400
Workforce rank
23rd of 51
25th percentile
$103,600
75th percentile
$171,810
90th percentile
$227,940
National median
$123,860
BLS OEWS, May 2025, SOC 11-9111.
How We Scored Colorado's Healthcare Administration Programs
Graduation rate carries 40% of the score, in-state tuition 25%, delivery
flexibility 20% and admission selectivity 15%. Every input is federal IPEDS data
or the school's own program page, and a program has to report both a graduation
rate and a tuition figure, and still be enrolling new students, to be ranked at
all. Weights are never renormalized
around a missing factor, because that turns non-disclosure into an advantage. The
same model runs on every state page, with no editorial override and no paid
placement. The full weighting, and the factors left out deliberately, are in the
ranking methodology (version 1.0).
No accreditation factor appears at this level. CAHME accredits healthcare
management programs at master's level only, so no bachelor's degree anywhere
carries it, and an undergraduate program claiming otherwise is describing
something that does not exist. Where a school states AUPHA certification on its
own page, that is reported on the program rather than scored.
Sources for These Colorado Healthcare Administration Rankings
Program counts, graduation rates, tuition, admission rates and degrees awarded:
IPEDS,
US Department of Education, CIP 51.0701 and 51.0702 at award level 5.
Wages:
BLS OEWS,
May 2025, SOC 11-9111 (Medical and Health Services Managers). A wage survey covering the whole occupation at
every education level, carrying no employment projections
.
Accreditation:
CAHME accredits master's programs only and does not accredit any bachelor's degree.
AUPHA certifies undergraduate programs instead. Where a school states that certification
on its own page it is reported on the program rather than scored.
Degree titles, delivery format and certification: each school's own program page.
Questions About Healthcare Administration Degrees in Colorado
Is the public university the best value in Colorado?
Public tuition averages $9,135 against $21,140 private.
What do healthcare administrators earn in Colorado?
8th of 51 on pay. Colorado's median is $134,910 against a national $123,860, a premium of $11,050. The top tenth clear $227,940. The state employs 8,400 of these managers, so this is a well-paid market of reasonable size served by only 4 ranked programs.
How many healthcare administration programs are in Colorado?
4 bachelor's programs at 4 institutions, 1 public and 3 private, of which 4 can be finished fully online. That is roughly 2,100 jobs in the state for every ranked program.
Is there a CAHME-accredited masters in Colorado?
Yes, at University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus. No Colorado institution offers both a ranked bachelor's in this field and an accredited master's, so continuing on from any of the four programs below means changing institution. That is normal rather than a problem, but it is worth knowing before choosing on the assumption of a continuous route.
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