Best Healthcare Administration Programs in Georgia, Ranked (2026)

Good Money, and the Worst Completion Figures on This Site

The 6 public programs here graduate 36% of the students who start them. The 9 private ones graduate 27%. Both are under 40%, and the state average of 31% is the lowest of the 29 states with at least five ranked programs. Individual programs range from 7% to 70%, so the state average hides an enormous spread rather than describing a uniform problem.

Neither of the usual caveats makes a 7% institutional rate comfortable reading, and the honest use of that number is as a question to ask an admissions office rather than as a verdict.

What makes it worth leading with is the pay. Georgia's median of $131,910 is $8,050 above the national figure, and the top tenth of earners here clear $248,660. The degree is worth having in this state. The variable a reader controls is picking a program they will actually finish, which is why completion carries 40% of the score below and why the ranking is topped by institutions you may not have heard of rather than by the largest names in Georgia higher education.

Why Georgia Pays Above the National Median

The wage survey does not explain itself, so any reason offered here would be invented. What it reports is a premium that holds all the way up the range, not just at the median.

For a reader the practical reading is that Georgia rewards getting into the occupation more than most states do, which raises the return on finishing and raises the cost of not finishing. A degree abandoned in year three costs the tuition and the years and returns none of that median.

How We Scored Georgia'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 Georgia 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.
• Institutional accreditation, which is separate from programmatic and is what makes a degree recognized at all: the Department of Education's accreditation database.
• Degree titles, delivery format and certification: each school's own program page.