Only three states pay healthcare managers better than New Jersey, and the state
offers one public bachelor's degree in the subject. That is the shape of the
decision among the 6 healthcare administration programs in New
Jersey: an unusually valuable destination, reached through an unusually narrow
affordable door.
A Top-Five Wage Reached Through One Affordable Door
New Jersey's median of $145,650 is $21,790 above the national
figure, and the gap widens further up: the state's ninetieth percentile is
$328,500. On the destination alone this is one of the best states in
the country to hold this job.
Wage figures for medical and health services managers in this state
| Median | $145,650 |
| Above national median | $21,790 |
| Pay rank | 4th of 51 |
| Employed | 16,900 |
| Workforce rank | 10th of 51 |
| 25th percentile | $117,760 |
| 75th percentile | $208,030 |
| 90th percentile | $328,500 |
| National median | $123,860 |
BLS OEWS, May 2025, SOC 11-9111.
The route in is narrower. Rowan University is the only public program ranked here, at $11,812 a year in state, and the 5 private alternatives average $31,755. Over four years that
is a difference of about
$79,772.
Here the arithmetic is kinder than it looks, and it is worth saying so rather
than reflexively recommending the cheap option. In Missouri or Alabama, four
years of private tuition buys entry to a market paying under the national line,
and the sums are hard to make work. In New Jersey the same spend buys entry to a
market paying $21,790 over it. That does not make the private route
correct, but it does mean the premium can be argued for here on the numbers
rather than only on preference.
1 Healthcare Management and Administration (BS)
Rowan
Fully online
Glassboro, NJ
$11,812 in-state tuition67% graduation rate78% admit rate71 score
Rowan offers an online healthcare management and administration BS covering the business and public-policy sides of health systems.
Rowan's online BS combines liberal arts, business, and healthcare study in a 120-credit degree. The university accepts first-year and transfer applicants and requires at least 30 credits at Rowan. Its curriculum spans organizational culture, finance, human resources, technology, and strategic planning.
The program's listed courses include healthcare informatics, marketing, law and ethics, care quality, operations management, and research methods. Community health and public policy give the business coursework a wider health-system context.
- Online BS
- 120-credit degree
- Healthcare informatics
View Rowan's Healthcare Management and Administration (BS)
2 Health Leadership (BS completion)
Eastern International College-Jersey City
Fully online
Jersey City, NJ
$16,182 in-state tuition34% graduation rate70% admit rate57.4 score
Eastern International's asynchronous health leadership BS completion program builds on an allied health associate degree.
Eastern International College in Jersey City, New Jersey, offers its health leadership completion program entirely online. The published plan contains 90 quarter credits beyond the entry qualification: 30 in upper-division general education and 60 in the major. The college designs the route for associate-prepared allied health professionals seeking management responsibilities.
Major courses cover patient safety and quality, organizational leadership, healthcare regulation, research methods, finance, policy, human resources, and informatics. General education adds global health, bioethics, cultural diversity, and research writing. The college's flyer estimates 16 months of study, excluding intersession weeks.
- Asynchronous online
- 90-quarter-credit completion plan
- Allied health entry route
View Eastern International College-Jersey City's Health Leadership (BS completion)
3 Healthcare Administration (BS)
Caldwell
On campus
Caldwell, NJ
$38,470 in-state tuition57% graduation rate71% admit rate48.1 score
Caldwell's healthcare administration students join an interprofessional education collaborative and connect their experience to a leadership capstone.
Caldwell's 120-credit BS combines business coursework with social science and health professions study. The curriculum covers quality management, managerial epidemiology, health information technology, and healthcare data analysis. The Inter-Professional Health Education Collaborative brings students together with peers preparing for other healthcare careers.
In the leadership and organizational change capstone, students connect internship or work experience to an analysis and presentation about a current administrative issue. The traditional curriculum includes a field internship. Caldwell's associate-degree completion route exempts students already working in a health-related field from that internship and medical terminology.
- 120 credits
- Interprofessional learning
- Leadership capstone
View Caldwell's Healthcare Administration (BS)
4 Healthcare Management (BA)
Saint Peter's
On campus
Jersey City, NJ
$41,152 in-state tuition58% graduation rate90% admit rate44.7 score
Saint Peter's healthcare management BA combines business fundamentals with health information, financing, and leadership coursework.
Saint Peter's identifies healthcare management as a 120-credit BA. The major combines management and marketing with electronic health records, healthcare organizations, health information management, and healthcare leadership and communication. Accounting, economics, and statistics support that administrative focus.
The university's course checklist effective Fall 2023 includes healthcare budgeting and finance, advanced healthcare-management concepts, and two healthcare electives. It specifies a 2.3 major GPA alongside the university's 2.0 requirement. Students can use remaining degree credits toward another academic interest, including a minor.
- 120-credit BA
- Health information study
- Budgeting and finance
View Saint Peter's's Healthcare Management (BA)
5 Health Services Management (BBA)
Berkeley College-Woodland Park
On campus
Woodland Park, NJ
$26,420 in-state tuition44% graduation rate43.1 score
Berkeley's 120-credit BBA combines health services finance and policy with business technology and a management capstone.
Berkeley College's 2026–27 curriculum builds from medical terminology and the U.S. healthcare system into managed care, organizational management, community health, and financing. Students also study accounting, economics, business law, and advanced spreadsheets as part of the business core.
The senior curriculum includes research methods and a health services management capstone focused on applying management theory to healthcare problems. Berkeley identifies the BBA as available through its New Jersey institution. Its program overview describes an internship or job-related assignment as an opportunity, rather than promising every student a placement.
- 120 semester credits
- Management capstone
- Health services finance
View Berkeley College-Woodland Park's Health Services Management (BBA)
6 Healthcare Administration (BS)
Felician
On campus
Lodi, NJ
$36,550 in-state tuition47% graduation rate40.5 score
Felician's healthcare administration BS pairs a substantial business core with courses on healthcare organizations, quality, and policy.
The 2025–26 catalog places Felician's healthcare administration BS within its business programs. Students study accounting, finance, marketing, economics, and quantitative analysis before applying management concepts to healthcare. The healthcare courses address organizational behavior, human resources, legal and ethical issues, care quality, and health policy.
The catalog calls for a 2.5 GPA, grades of C or better in major courses, and completion of the final 30 credits at Felician. Business communications and an internship are specifically listed for traditional undergraduates; those requirements should be read in the context of the student's entry route.
- Business foundation
- Healthcare policy
- Traditional-route internship
View Felician's Healthcare Administration (BS)
How We Scored New Jersey'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.