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Healthcare administration degrees by state

Best Healthcare Administration Programs in Missouri, Ranked (2026)

Edited by Taylor Rupe, B.A. Psychology, University of Washington Seattle · B.S. Computer Science, Oregon State University

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Programs ranked IPEDS

13

at 12 institutions

Median tuition IPEDS

$19,900

in state, per year

Average graduation rate IPEDS

57%

across ranked programs

Median pay BLS

$104,370

43rd of 51 jurisdictions

Missouri is where the cost of this degree matters most and where the cheap version is hardest to find. 10 of the 13 healthcare administration programs in Missouri are private, averaging $31,373 a year, and the state pays $19,490 less than the national median for the job they lead to. The three public programs are the most consequential rows in the table below.

13
Programs ranked
3
Public programs
$104,370
State median pay
$125,492
Four years, private average

The Arithmetic of a Missouri Healthcare Administration Degree

Start with what the job pays, because in Missouri it is the number that constrains everything else.

Wage figures for medical and health services managers in this state
Median $104,370
Below national median $19,490
Pay rank 43rd of 51
Employed 10,800
Workforce rank 18th of 51
25th percentile $82,490
75th percentile $135,780
90th percentile $186,430
National median $123,860

BLS OEWS, May 2025, SOC 11-9111.

Now the cost. Four years at the average public rate of $7,689 comes to roughly $30,756. Four years at the average private rate of $31,373 comes to about $125,492, which is more than a year of the median salary the degree leads to. The difference between those two routes is about $94,736 for the same credential in the same labor market.

That is not an argument that the private programs are bad, and the data says the opposite on the one outcome it can measure: they graduate 61% of their students against 43% at the public institutions. It is an argument that in Missouri, more than in a state paying above the national line, the tuition figure in the table below deserves to be read first. A degree that costs $125,492 and leads to $104,370 is a different proposition from the same degree at $30,756.

All 13 Ranked Healthcare Administration Programs in Missouri

All 13 ranked healthcare administration bachelor programs in Missouri, with tuition, graduation rate and score
# School Type Delivery In-state tuition Graduation rate Master’s on site Admission rate Degrees awarded Score
1 Bryan Private for-profit Fully online $14,580 90% 5 75.9
2 Southeast Missouri State Public Fully online $8,559 58% 74% 28 69.2
3 Maryville University of Saint Louis Private nonprofit Fully online $24,766 66% 95% 19 63.2
4 Washington University in St Louis Private nonprofit On campus $64,500 94% 12% 8 62.1
5 Lindenwood Private nonprofit Online and on campus $19,900 49% 57% 12 60
6 Columbia Private nonprofit Fully online $12,276 42% 21 57.6
7 Missouri Baptist Private nonprofit Fully online $31,530 48% 69% 7 57.4
8 Park Private nonprofit Fully online $11,018 38% 27 56.4
9 Missouri Southern State Public Online and on campus $8,700 42% 97% 17 55.3
10 Avila Private nonprofit Fully online $40,200 52% 88% 1 52.9
11 Avila Private nonprofit Fully online $40,200 52% 88% 7 52.9
12 Saint Louis Private nonprofit On campus $54,760 80% CAHME-accredited 75% 33 50.7
13 Harris-Stowe State Public On campus $5,808 28% 3 44.4

The best completion record belongs to Washington University in St Louis, which finishes 94% of the students it enrolls against 90% at the top of the list. It places 4th 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. Bryan University leads the ranking, but Harris-Stowe State University charges $5,808 a year, less than half what the top program asks, and it still places 13th of 13. 8 of the 13 run fully online, and the highest placed of them is the program at the top of the table, so the ranked answer and the distance-study answer are the same one here.

1

Allied Health Management (B.S.)

Bryan

Fully online

Springfield, MO

$14,580 in-state tuition90% graduation rate75.9 score

Bryan University in Springfield, Missouri, offers an online Allied Health Management BS with a capstone that combines an outcomes-management proposal, a community service-learning experience, and a portfolio.

The Missouri program lists coursework in healthcare systems and policy, information systems management, healthcare finance, marketing, and quality management. Medical law and ethics and medical office administration connect those management subjects to the daily work of a healthcare organization.

You also study healthcare research and case and outcomes management. The final Allied Health Management Capstone Project asks you to design and participate in a collaborative service-learning experience in a community, ambulatory, home, or healthcare setting, then assemble and revise a portfolio of work from the core courses.

  • Online BS from the Springfield, Missouri institution
  • Healthcare finance and quality management coursework
  • Outcomes-management capstone project
  • Service-learning experience and portfolio

View Bryan's Allied Health Management (B.S.)

2

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration

Southeast Missouri State

Fully online

Cape Girardeau, MO

$8,559 in-state tuition58% graduation rate74% admit rate69.2 score

Southeast Missouri's Healthcare Administration B.S.B.A. includes a required health care internship within a degree grounded in business administration.

The degree requires at least 120 credits, including 39 senior-division hours. The business core covers accounting, finance, law, management, marketing, information systems and strategy. Core and support courses require a C or better.

The health care coursework offers study in quality, performance improvement, informatics, databases and medical practice management. The published program page identifies the offering at the main campus in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Internship and practicum experiences connect students with health care organizations.

  • 120-credit minimum
  • Required health care internship
  • Business administration core
  • Quality and informatics options

View Southeast Missouri State's Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration

3

Healthcare Management (BS)

Maryville University of Saint Louis

Fully online

Saint Louis, MO

$24,766 in-state tuition66% graduation rate95% admit rate63.2 score

Maryville's online healthcare management BS includes a 50-hour practicum and a separate healthcare management capstone.

Maryville's BS curriculum covers the operational details of running a healthcare organization, including revenue cycles, staff management, compliance, patient engagement, and technology selection. Financial management and medical law courses examine reimbursement, resource allocation, liability, and risk.

In the professional leadership course, eligible healthcare management students complete a 50-hour practicum at an approved site and produce a paper and presentation. A separate capstone examines a current healthcare issue from several perspectives. Maryville also offers an optional senior living management certificate for students interested in services for older adults.

  • Online coursework
  • 50-hour practicum
  • Management capstone

View Maryville University of Saint Louis's Healthcare Management (BS)

4

Bachelor of Science in Integrated Studies: Health Care Management

Washington University in St Louis

On campus

St. Louis, MO

$64,500 in-state tuition94% graduation rate12% admit rate62.1 score

WashU delivers this as a Bachelor of Science in Integrated Studies through its continuing and professional studies school, with health care management as the named field inside it.

The degree provides an academic foundation for managerial careers in health care, and its courses examine the scientific, social, political, economic, ethical and organizational dimensions of the field together, along with what each implies for public policy. The university's stated reason for that spread is the interdisciplinary nature of health care and the demand it places on critical thinking and contextual understanding.

The Integrated Studies structure means the degree is assembled around a field rather than delivered as a fixed major, and graduates are pointed at a range of health care professions including hospital administration among others.

  • Bachelor of Science in Integrated Studies
  • Taught through continuing and professional studies
  • Ethical and public policy dimensions in the core
  • Interdisciplinary by construction

View Washington University in St Louis's Bachelor of Science in Integrated Studies: Health Care Management

5

Health Management (BS)

Lindenwood

Online and on campus

Saint Charles, MO

$19,900 in-state tuition49% graduation rate57% admit rate60 score

Lindenwood's health management BS offers campus and blended study, with coursework in healthcare finance, policy, and ethics.

Lindenwood's BS combines business and general education requirements with a 21-credit health management core. The listed core covers healthcare management, financial management, legal and ethical issues, delivery systems, policy, research, contemporary problems, and a capstone.

The degree page lists long-term care and an internship among elective choices. Career Services supports internship coordination, networking, and career planning. The program is offered at St. Charles, Missouri, in campus and blended formats, with some online coursework possible in the campus route.

  • Campus and blended formats
  • 21-credit health core
  • Internship elective

View Lindenwood's Health Management (BS)

6

Healthcare Management (BS)

Columbia

Fully online

Columbia, MO

$12,276 in-state tuition42% graduation rate57.6 score

Columbia College's healthcare management BS examines American and comparative health systems through a business curriculum.

Columbia College in Missouri offers a BS focused on managing healthcare operations. Its areas of study include the American healthcare system, comparative systems, human resources, financial management, legal and ethical issues, and operations and quality. Case studies apply those subjects to healthcare management decisions.

The college lists the degree among its online bachelor's programs and identifies evening classes in Columbia, Missouri, as an additional option. The exact program page notes that healthcare management courses are mostly online. Students can pair the degree with a related minor.

  • Online degree option
  • Comparative health systems
  • Healthcare case studies

View Columbia's Healthcare Management (BS)

7

Healthcare Management (BPS)

Missouri Baptist

Fully online

Saint Louis, MO

$31,530 in-state tuition48% graduation rate69% admit rate57.4 score

Missouri Baptist's 2022–23 online healthcare management BPS plan combined accounting with healthcare policy, technology, and strategy.

Missouri Baptist's 2022–23 advising sheet described an online Bachelor of Professional Studies in Healthcare Management with at least 120 total credits. Its major included financial and managerial accounting alongside healthcare systems, law and ethics, marketing, information technology, finance, public policy, and strategic management.

The plan allowed qualifying healthcare associate-degree coursework to count toward major electives. It also required 42 upper-division credits, a 2.0 cumulative GPA, and at least 24 of the last 32 credits at Missouri Baptist. Christian literature or Bible study formed part of the degree requirements.

  • Historical 2022–23 online plan
  • Healthcare transfer electives
  • 120-credit BPS

View Missouri Baptist's Healthcare Management (BPS)

8

Healthcare Administration (BSBA)

Park

Fully online

Parkville, MO

$11,018 in-state tuition38% graduation rate56.4 score

Park's 120-credit healthcare administration BSBA uses team projects and case scenarios to teach administrative decision-making.

Park University's BSBA is available online and through campus study that includes online courses. The program connects business competencies to healthcare operations, policy, ethics, organizational behavior, and resource management. Park bases its curriculum on the Healthcare Leadership Alliance competency model.

Team projects and case scenarios give students practice in communication, project management, and conflict resolution. The program emphasizes using financial, economic, and operational evidence to recommend decisions. Park also describes a 4+1 route toward its Master of Healthcare Administration for students seeking further study.

  • 120 credits
  • Online option
  • Team projects and cases

View Park's Healthcare Administration (BSBA)

9

Healthcare Administration (BS)

Missouri Southern State

Online and on campus

Joplin, MO

$8,700 in-state tuition42% graduation rate97% admit rate55.3 score

Missouri Southern's hybrid healthcare administration BS includes an eight-week internship and support from the Gipson Center.

Missouri Southern State University's BS combines healthcare systems and operations with business, communication, leadership, and professional ethics. The university identifies the program as hybrid, based in Joplin, Missouri, with many courses available online.

The degree page includes an eight-week internship as part of its practical preparation. The Gipson Center for Healthcare Leadership supports the program through mentorship, scholarships, and professional experience. Missouri Southern describes full-time study as the standard pace and indicates that part-time options may be available.

  • Hybrid study in Joplin, MO
  • Eight-week internship
  • Gipson Center support

View Missouri Southern State's Healthcare Administration (BS)

10

Avila

Fully online

Kansas City, MO

$40,200 in-state tuition52% graduation rate88% admit rate52.9 score

A small online cohort, 1 that year.

11

Healthcare Management

Avila

Fully online

Kansas City, MO

$40,200 in-state tuition52% graduation rate88% admit rate52.9 score

Fully online, $40,200, finishing 52%.

View Avila's Healthcare Management

12

Health Management, B.S.

Saint Louis

On campus CAHME master's on campus

Saint Louis, MO

$54,760 in-state tuition80% graduation rate75% admit rate50.7 score

The degree is taught through SLU's College for Public Health and Social Justice, which holds accreditation from the Council on Education for Public Health.

Saint Louis University positions the B.S. in Health Management for students interested in business, health care, and community health and wellness together, and the college it sits in explains the emphasis: public health and social justice rather than management in isolation.

The university frames the work in terms of system change. Health care delivery is described as highly complex and in need of people trained to recommend, implement, operate and evaluate changes to it, with the decisions made by health care executives affecting large numbers of people. That is a different pitch from the operational one most programs at this level make.

  • College accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health
  • Public health and social justice framing
  • Aimed at system-level change, not only operations
  • Combines business with community health

View Saint Louis's Health Management, B.S.

13

Health Care Management (BS)

Harris-Stowe State

On campus

Saint Louis, MO

$5,808 in-state tuition28% graduation rate44.4 score

Harris-Stowe's published healthcare management plan includes a senior internship at a local healthcare institution.

Harris-Stowe's BS planning sheet combines healthcare management with accounting, economics, marketing, information systems, and finance. The healthcare sequence includes organization and administration, financial management, strategy, technology, and global healthcare management.

The sample final year includes a healthcare management internship, giving students experience in a local healthcare setting. The university describes both classroom and online course offerings. Its planning sheet serves as an advising outline; students work with their advisor or success coach to establish their own sequence.

  • Senior healthcare internship
  • Global healthcare management
  • Business foundation

View Harris-Stowe State's Health Care Management (BS)

Listed but Not Ranked in Missouri

This program is not currently taking new students, so it is not scored against the ones you can still apply to. Its card keeps the federal figures and the published curriculum, and the notice on it links the source for what changed.

Healthcare Leadership (BS)

William Jewell

On campus

Liberty, MO

$19,320 in-state tuition68% graduation rate38% admit rate

William Jewell's historical healthcare leadership BS was an alternative degree for eligible students leaving its traditional nursing major.

The 2024–25 catalog restricted this BS to students who could no longer progress in Jewell's traditional nursing major. Eligibility included 30 credits earned at Jewell, at least 18 qualifying nursing credits, departmental recommendations, and academic approval.

The major combined those nursing credits with management, human resources, healthcare leadership, finance, economics, and healthcare management. Students selected additional coursework from business, marketing, or nursing. Jewell announced a phase-out beginning in 2025–26, with teach-out planning for enrolled students; this profile preserves the earlier program requirements.

  • Historical restricted-entry BS
  • Healthcare finance and economics
  • Teach-out announced

View William Jewell's Healthcare Leadership (BS)

Where a Missouri Graduate Can Continue

4 Missouri institutions hold CAHME accreditation for a healthcare management master's, which is a respectable count for a state this size. None of the bachelor's degrees on this page carries CAHME, because it accredits at master's level only, and any undergraduate program claiming it is describing something that does not exist.

That matters here because of the pay figure. Postgraduate administrative fellowships, the usual route into hospital executive work, are frequently restricted to graduates of accredited master's programs, and the master's is where the earnings ceiling in this field actually moves. The full accredited list is on this site.

How We Scored Missouri'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 Missouri Healthcare Administration Rankings

Questions About Healthcare Administration Degrees in Missouri

Is a healthcare administration degree worth it in Missouri?
It depends almost entirely on what you pay for it, more than in most states. Missouri's median for this work is $104,370, which is $19,490 below the national figure and 9th from the bottom of the 51 jurisdictions BLS reports. Four years at the state's average private tuition of $31,373 comes to about $125,492. At the average public rate of $7,689 it is about $30,756. Same degree, same labor market.
How many public healthcare administration programs does Missouri have?
3 of the 13 ranked programs are public. The other 10 are private, so the cheap route through this field in Missouri is genuinely narrow.
What do healthcare administrators earn in Missouri?
A median of $104,370 against $123,860 nationally. The middle half earn between $82,490 and $135,780, and the top tenth clear $186,430. Missouri employs 10,800 of these managers, the 18th largest workforce in the country. Figures are BLS OEWS, May 2025.
Do Missouri's private programs graduate more students?
Yes, and by a wide margin: 61% against 43% at the 3 public institutions, a gap of 18 points. That is the strongest argument for the private route here. Set against it, graduation rate is an institutional figure rather than a departmental one, and averaging 3 public programs is a thin basis for a state-wide claim.

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