Kansas ranks 33rd of 51 on what this work pays and
33rd on how much of it there is. Nothing about the
7 healthcare administration programs in Kansas is distorted by
an unusual wage or an unusual shortage, which makes this one of the few states
where the ranking below can simply be read as a ranking.
A State with Nothing Unusual to Plan Around
Most of these state pages open on a distortion. New York pays tens of
thousands above the national line; California has thousands of jobs per
program; Wisconsin has no accredited master's at all. Kansas has none of
that. It sits 33rd on pay and 33rd on
workforce size, which is as close to proportionate as this dataset gets, and
the difference between its median and the national one is
$12,830.
What is unusual, mildly, is program density. 7 ranked
programs serve a workforce of 5,120, about
731 jobs each, where California runs
nearer four and a half thousand. A reader in Kansas therefore has more local
choice per available job than most, which is a real advantage and the main
reason to read the table row by row rather than defaulting to the nearest
campus.
1 BS in Health Management
Wichita State
Fully online CAHME master's on campus
Wichita, KS
$7,529 in-state tuition51% graduation rate94% admit rate63.8 score
Wichita State’s AUPHA-certified health management BS requires a 160-hour practicum and an applied-learning professional portfolio.
The 2026-27 catalog lists a 120-credit minimum, with 45 credits of required health management courses and nine interdisciplinary elective credits. Study includes healthcare informatics, finance, quality and analytics, communication, and policy. Students can choose hybrid or fully online study, with the practicum in a healthcare organization.
The program assigns both a college advisor and a faculty advisor. Students enter with at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA and complete the capstone and practicum in their final year. Qualified students may share nine credits with an accelerated master’s program in health administration or aging studies.
- AUPHA-certified undergraduate program
- 160-hour practicum
- Applied-learning portfolio
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2 Bachelor of Health Science in Health Services Administration
Washburn
Fully online
Topeka, KS
$9,828 in-state tuition53% graduation rate62.9 score
Washburn lets students study as lightly as three credit hours a semester, entirely online, and closes the degree with a senior seminar built around a project for a real facility.
The Bachelor of Health Science in Health Services Administration is a major that can be completed on its own or combined with an allied health associate degree. Competencies span legal and regulatory compliance, quality improvement, health care policy, health information systems, supervision, finance and reimbursement, research and population health.
Admission requires a minimum 2.5 GPA and is open to graduates of an allied health associate program or credentialed, licensed or registered health professionals. Students without a health care background complete four to five prerequisite courses before applying. There is currently no formal internship requirement, though students can choose to complete one.
- Fully online, from three credit hours a semester
- Senior seminar project with a facility
- Stand-alone or paired with an allied health associate
- Prerequisites required without a health background
View Washburn's Bachelor of Health Science in Health Services Administration
3 Health Care Management Concentration
Ottawa University-Online
Fully online
Overland Park, KS
$11,976 in-state tuition43% graduation rate58.1 score
At Ottawa, health care management is a concentration added to a bachelor's in business administration, human resources or management, taken online or in Overland Park, Kansas or Brookfield, Wisconsin.
This is a concentration rather than a standalone major. You take Management of Health Care Organizations plus three electives selected from Planning and Budgeting in Health Care, Managing Integration of Health Care Systems, Health Care Law and Ethics, and Health Care Policy and Regulations. At least 12 semester credits must be upper division.
The coursework looks at integrated health care and reimbursement systems and asks students to weigh client needs, fiscal constraints, ethics, public policy and system design against the demand for affordable, efficient care. Ottawa University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, and its business programs hold ACBSP accreditation.
- A concentration within a business bachelor's
- At least four courses, 12 upper-division credits
- Online, Overland Park, KS or Brookfield, WI
- Management of Health Care Organizations required
View Ottawa University-Online's Health Care Management Concentration
4 Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Administration
Central Christian College of Kansas
Fully online
McPherson, KS
$20,000 in-state tuition27% graduation rate53% admit rate55.7 score
Central Christian College of Kansas accepts up to 90 transfer credits toward the online degree and runs it one six-week course at a time, with no application fee.
The Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Administration sits in the Division of Business and is taught online through the Canvas learning system, with four courses per semester, each six weeks long. Depending on transfer credit, which is assessed case by case, completion can take from one to five years. Students can focus the degree through an elective track.
Coursework includes Financial Management in Healthcare, Leadership and Change in Healthcare, Human Resource Management, Principles of Healthcare Management, Organizational Behavior and Leadership, U.S. Healthcare Systems and Strategic Management, each worth three credits. Faculty teach from a faith-centered perspective.
- Up to 90 transfer credits accepted
- One six-week course at a time, online
- No application fee
- Elective tracks to focus the degree
View Central Christian College of Kansas's Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Administration
5 Healthcare Administration
Southwestern
Fully online
Winfield, KS
$39,672 in-state tuition36% graduation rate76% admit rate48.5 score
Southwestern College’s online bachelor’s uses six-week courses and healthcare case studies, ending with a two-project senior capstone.
The program lists 124 total credits and a transfer ceiling of 94 credits. Courses address healthcare accounting, economics, personnel management, information systems and quality. Students analyze financial reports, reimbursement, patient safety and the rules that govern healthcare organizations.
The senior capstone falls within the final nine hours of the student’s program. Its two projects assess learning and preparation for professional work. Admission requires a high school diploma or GED and at least a 2.0 GPA. The published prerequisites include college algebra and statistics and probability.
- Six-week online courses
- Up to 94 transfer credits
- Two-project capstone
View Southwestern's Healthcare Administration
6 BA in Management and Leadership in Healthcare Administration
MidAmerica Nazarene
On campus
Olathe, KS
$36,174 in-state tuition54% graduation rate79% admit rate46.6 score
MNU's 2021–22 catalog describes a healthcare leadership completion degree for students entering with 45 transferable credits.
The historical BA required 126 semester hours, including at least 30 through MNU and 36 at the upper-division level. Its entry requirements included a 2.0 cumulative GPA and 45 transferable credits; students below either threshold could use accelerated general education courses to meet those requirements.
The degree plan combines organizational behavior, human resources and leadership with healthcare communication, healthcare economics, information systems and project management. It also includes Biblical Perspectives. The catalog identifies the program as a bridge to the healthcare-management MBA.
- 2021–22 curriculum
- 45-credit transfer entry
- 126 semester hours
View MidAmerica Nazarene's BA in Management and Leadership in Healthcare Administration
7 B.S. in Healthcare Management
McPherson
On campus
McPherson, KS
$35,946 in-state tuition34% graduation rate77% admit rate39 score
McPherson’s healthcare management BS builds toward a capstone portfolio, with hospital observation and practitioner experience earlier in the major.
The 2026-27 catalog lists a 56-hour major combining biology, chemistry and community health with business management, accounting, finance and personnel management. Health policy coursework examines how decisions are made and their effects on rural communities. Healthcare finance study addresses reimbursement, budgets and resource allocation.
Career exploration requires at least 20 hours of hospital observation. The junior seminar adds at least 20 hours with healthcare practitioners and develops a faculty-approved capstone proposal. Students complete their capstone experience across the final two semesters and present their portfolio publicly in the last semester.
- 56-hour major
- Hospital observation experience
- Public capstone presentation
View McPherson's B.S. in Healthcare Management
How We Scored Kansas'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.