New Hampshire holds the 7th highest pay ceiling in the country
for this work and one of its smallest workforces. There are
2,460 of these posts in the entire state. That
combination should change how the 5 healthcare administration
programs in New Hampshire are read, because most of the people enrolled in them
are not planning to work here.
$290,880
Top tenth earn above
7th
Ceiling rank of 51
2,460
Managers employed in NH
3 of 5
Programs fully online
Studying in New Hampshire Is Not the Same as Studying for New Hampshire
The pay figures here are genuinely good. A median of $130,410 beats
the national one, and a ninetieth percentile of $290,880 beats the
national ninetieth by $66,540, which puts the state
7th in the country on that measure. What sits behind
them is small. 2,460 people hold these posts
statewide, roughly 492 for each program ranked
below.
Two different readers are looking at this page and they should draw opposite
conclusions. Someone who intends to live and work in New Hampshire is entering
a market where the money is excellent and the openings are few, which usually
means waiting for the right vacancy or commuting into the area around Boston, Massachusetts, and the
Massachusetts programs are the obvious comparison for that.
Someone enrolling online is in a different position entirely. New Hampshire
hosts one of the largest online universities in the United States, and its
students are spread across every state. For them the New Hampshire wage table
is background rather than a forecast, and the numbers that matter are the ones
for wherever they actually plan to work. That is unusual enough to state
plainly: on most state pages the local wage data is the point, and on this one
it applies to a minority of the people reading it.
All 5 Healthcare Administration Programs in New Hampshire, Ranked
All 5 ranked healthcare administration bachelor programs in New Hampshire, with tuition, graduation rate and score
#
School
Type
Delivery
In-state tuition
Graduation rate
Admission rate
Degrees awarded
Score
1
University of New Hampshire-Main Campus
Public
On campus
$15,520
76%
88%
20
61.7
2
Southern New Hampshire
Private nonprofit
Fully online
$16,200
43%
100%
288
56.5
3
University of New Hampshire College of Professional Studies Online
Public
Fully online
$7,536
30%
5
54.5
4
New England
Private nonprofit
Fully online
$25,714
35%
92%
6
50.9
5
Franklin Pierce
Private nonprofit
On campus
$41,836
54%
93%
8
42.4
Price and placement come apart sharply here. University of New Hampshire-Main Campus leads the ranking, but University of New Hampshire College of Professional Studies Online charges $7,536 a year, less than half what the top program asks, and it still places 3rd of 5. University of New Hampshire-Main Campus finishes more of its students than anything else here, at 76%, which is most of why it leads: graduation rate is the heaviest single factor in the score. Most of this table is distance study: 3 of the 5 run fully online, led by Southern New Hampshire University at 2nd.
UNH's Health Management and Policy B.S. in Durham, New Hampshire, includes a 400-hour internship and a sequenced junior- and senior-year curriculum.
The major brings together health data, epidemiology, economics, finance, law, ethics, management and public health. You complete introductory courses before the junior-year sequence, then build toward the summer internship. A faculty adviser helps you coordinate major requirements with the rest of the degree.
UNH warns that the prescribed sequence can add a year for internal or external transfer students. It also recommends arranging study abroad before junior year. Those timing constraints are worth discussing early if you are changing majors or bringing credits from another school.
SNHU offers concentrations in Health Information Management and Patient Safety and Quality within its online Healthcare Administration B.S.
Courses run in eight-week terms. The core covers healthcare marketing, delivery systems, reimbursement, finance, policy and strategic management. You also study how to use research and evaluation in administrative decisions.
The information-management concentration examines technology, records and data infrastructure. The patient-safety option focuses on identifying risk, measuring improvement, managing data and changing organizational culture. Its course examples include Patient Safety Systems and Strategies and Performance Improvement Measurement and Methodologies. These are concentration choices within the administration degree.
UNH's College of Professional Studies offers a separate online Health Care Management B.S., accepting up to 90 transfer credits toward its 120-credit plan.
The program combines healthcare delivery and policy with leadership, organizational development and interprofessional collaboration. The sample sequence includes fiscal management, population health, reimbursement, informatics, and law and ethics for healthcare and human services.
An Integrative Capstone: Project in Health Care Management brings the coursework together. You develop an individual academic plan with your adviser so that transfer credit and course availability are reflected in your schedule. The college also offers an accelerated graduate-study option for eligible undergraduates.
New England College places Healthcare Administration inside its online Business Administration B.A., using case studies and data-based projects.
The concentration connects organizational theory, public and community health, and healthcare leadership with the broader business degree. Accounting, marketing, management and finance form part of the program's stated learning outcomes, alongside quantitative analysis and information systems.
You apply those subjects to decisions in healthcare organizations while also completing liberal arts coursework. Legal, ethical and global business environments are included in the learning outcomes. The degree is a B.A. in Business Administration with a healthcare concentration, which matters when comparing it with a standalone clinical or health-science degree.
Franklin Pierce's on-campus Healthcare Administration B.S. lets you complete either an internship or a senior independent research project.
The bachelor's is based in Rindge, New Hampshire. Its plan starts with management, marketing, accounting, economics and statistics before moving into health information, epidemiology, quality improvement, ethics, policy and law. Healthcare finance and leadership courses appear in the fourth-year plan.
The final year includes business strategy, comprehensive exams and the internship-or-research choice. Franklin Pierce lists online delivery for its related MBA and graduate certificates, while identifying the B.S. as an on-campus program. Applicants should use the undergraduate requirements when comparing their study options.
Read the ninetieth percentile alongside the employment count rather than on its
own. A very high ceiling over a very small base describes a handful of senior
posts at a small number of systems, not a general condition of the job in this
state.
Wage figures for medical and health services managers in this state
Median
$130,410
Above national median
$6,550
Pay rank
15th of 51
Employed
2,460
Workforce rank
41st of 51
25th percentile
$101,570
75th percentile
$170,390
90th percentile
$290,880
National median
$123,860
BLS OEWS, May 2025, SOC 11-9111.
How We Scored New Hampshire'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 school
can pay to enter a ranking, leave one, or move within it. The sponsored listings
on this page are paid for, are labeled as advertising, and are never scored. 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 New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire
What do healthcare administrators earn in New Hampshire?
A median of $130,410, $6,550 above the national $123,860. The striking figure is the top: the best-paid tenth clear $290,880, $66,540 above the national ninetieth percentile and the 7th highest ceiling of the 51 jurisdictions BLS reports. That is on a workforce of only 2,460.
How many healthcare administration jobs are there in New Hampshire?
2,460, the 41st largest count of the 51 jurisdictions BLS reports. That works out at roughly 492 posts per ranked program, one of the tighter ratios on this site, and it is the main argument for treating this as a regional or online decision rather than a local one.
Can you study healthcare administration online in New Hampshire?
3 of the 5 ranked programs are fully online, a majority. One of them is run by an institution enrolling well over a hundred thousand students nationally, so a large share of the people taking a New Hampshire healthcare administration degree have never been to New Hampshire.
What is the cheapest healthcare administration degree in New Hampshire?
University of New Hampshire College of Professional Studies Online at $7,536 a year in state, an online public option. The dearest is Franklin Pierce University at $41,836, so the state's tuition range spans $34,300 across just 5 programs.
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