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.
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.
1 Health Management and Policy, B.S.
University of New Hampshire-Main Campus
On campus
Durham, NH
$15,520 in-state tuition76% graduation rate88% admit rate61.7 score
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.
- Campus in Durham, NH
- 400-hour internship
- Sequential upper-division curriculum
- Health data and policy focus
View University of New Hampshire-Main Campus's Health Management and Policy, B.S.
2 BS in Healthcare Administration
Southern New Hampshire
Fully online
Manchester, NH
$16,200 in-state tuition43% graduation rate100% admit rate56.5 score
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.
- Online B.S.
- Eight-week terms
- Health Information Management concentration
- Patient Safety and Quality concentration
View Southern New Hampshire's BS in Healthcare Administration
3 Health Care Management, B.S.
University of New Hampshire College of Professional Studies Online
Fully online
Manchester, NH
$7,536 in-state tuition30% graduation rate54.5 score
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.
- College of Professional Studies online program
- Up to 90 transfer credits
- 120-credit plan
- Healthcare management project capstone
View University of New Hampshire College of Professional Studies Online's Health Care Management, B.S.
4 Business Administration: Healthcare Administration, BA Online
New England
Fully online
Henniker, NH
$25,714 in-state tuition35% graduation rate92% admit rate50.9 score
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.
- Online Business Administration B.A.
- Healthcare Administration concentration
- Case studies and data-based projects
- Liberal arts foundation
View New England's Business Administration: Healthcare Administration, BA Online
5 Healthcare Administration
Franklin Pierce
On campus
Rindge, NH
$41,836 in-state tuition54% graduation rate93% admit rate42.4 score
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.
- B.S. on campus in Rindge, NH
- Internship or independent research
- Epidemiology and quality improvement
- Business strategy and healthcare finance
View Franklin Pierce's Healthcare Administration
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 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.