Healthcare Administration Degrees

Healthcare administration degrees by state

Best Healthcare Administration Programs in New York, Ranked (2026)

Programs ranked IPEDS

21

at 20 institutions

Median tuition IPEDS

$20,240

in state, per year

Average graduation rate IPEDS

51%

across ranked programs

Median pay BLS

$164,120

1st of 51 jurisdictions

Healthcare administrators are paid more in New York than in any other state, a median of $164,120 against $123,860 nationally. That single figure changes how to read every other number on this page, because it means the 21 healthcare administration programs in New York are competing to place graduates into the best-paid version of this job in the country. It also means the $48,400 at the top of the tuition range is a more defensible bet here than the same price would be elsewhere.

21
Programs ranked
$164,120
State median pay
$40,260
Above the national median
33,200
Managers employed in NY

The Highest Healthcare Administration Salaries in the Country

New York's median of $164,120 is $40,260 above the national $123,860, which makes it 1st of the 51 jurisdictions the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. The premium is not an artefact of a few very large hospital systems pulling an average upward, because the median is the middle value rather than the mean. It holds at the top as well: the state's ninetieth percentile is $340,990 against $224,340 nationally. Even the tenth percentile, $95,660, sits above the national tenth percentile of $73,390.

The employment base is 33,200, the 4th largest in the country, so this is a deep market as well as a well-paid one. The obvious caveat is that the survey reports wages and not what those wages buy, and a salary in Manhattan, New York, is not the same salary in Buffalo, New York. The figures below are for the state as a whole.

All 21 Ranked Healthcare Administration Programs in New York

All 21 ranked healthcare administration bachelor programs in New York, with tuition, graduation rate and score
# School Type Delivery In-state tuition Graduation rate Admission rate Degrees awarded Score
1 SUNY College of Technology at Alfred Public Fully online $7,070 55% 76% 35 68.3
2 Plaza Private for-profit On campus $14,000 68% 30% 12 67.8
3 State University of New York at Cortland Public On campus $7,070 68% 60% 13 65.9
4 Roberts Wesleyan Private nonprofit Fully online $37,408 67% 71% 17 62.5
5 CUNY Lehman Public On campus $6,930 51% 57% 184 59.6
6 SUNY College of Technology at Canton Public Fully online $7,070 38% 92% 58 59.1
7 SUNY College of Technology at Delhi Public Online and on campus $7,070 45% 89% 12 58.4
8 University of Mount Saint Vincent Private nonprofit Fully online $42,900 57% 85% 2 54.4
9 CUNY New York City College of Technology Public Fully online $6,930 21% 80% 54 54.2
10 CUNY New York City College of Technology Public Fully online $6,930 21% 80% 35 54.2
11 St. Joseph's University-New York Private nonprofit On campus $35,840 69% 72% 51 53.8
12 Siena Private nonprofit On campus $44,505 75% 69% 4 53.4
13 The College of Westchester Private for-profit Fully online $23,706 38% 94% 53 52.6
14 Manhattan Private nonprofit Online and on campus $48,400 64% 79% 1 52
15 Metropolitan College of New York Private nonprofit Online and on campus $19,338 40% 90% 25 51.6
16 Trocaire Private nonprofit Fully online $20,240 31% 97% 5 50.6
17 Maria College of Albany Private nonprofit On campus $18,000 30% 44% 1 49
18 Alfred Private nonprofit On campus $36,818 57% 74% 1 48.3
19 Mount Saint Mary Private nonprofit On campus $41,820 65% 89% 13 47.4
20 Long Island Private nonprofit On campus $40,248 57% 86% 8 45.2
21 Berkeley College-New York Private for-profit On campus $26,629 44% 55 43

The best completion record belongs to Siena College, which finishes 75% of the students it enrolls against 55% at the top of the list. It places 12th rather than first because graduation rate carries 40% of the score and tuition, delivery and selectivity carry the rest. Ranked order and price order do not agree here. SUNY College of Technology at Alfred holds the top place, while the cheapest way into the field in New York is CUNY Lehman College at $6,930 a year, $140 under the top-ranked program, and it still places 5th of 21. 8 of the 21 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

Healthcare Management

SUNY College of Technology at Alfred

Fully online

Alfred, NY

$7,070 in-state tuition55% graduation rate76% admit rate68.3 score

Alfred State runs a 2+2 route for adult learners in which the bachelor's half is completed 100% online in four- to seven-week courses offered year-round.

The Healthcare Management programs sit in the Allied Health Department as a two-year Associate of Science and a four-year Bachelor of Technology, and the college describes the BTech as designed around working and transfer students. The management content covers finance, law, human resources and quality control, taught by industry professionals, with graduates pointed either at leadership roles or at MBA and MHA study afterwards.

The 2+2 structure is the distinctive part. A student who already holds the associate builds on it to finish the bachelor's entirely online, in short courses running through the year rather than in semesters, and the college states that the hands-on projects are tied directly to the student's own daily work. Residency is listed as either the campus in Alfred, New York, or fully remote.

  • Bachelor's half completed 100% online
  • Four- to seven-week courses offered year-round
  • Projects tied to the student's own job
  • Campus or fully remote residency
2

Patient Information Management (BBA)

Plaza

On campus

Forest Hills, NY

$14,000 in-state tuition68% graduation rate30% admit rate67.8 score

Plaza's 2025–27 catalog lists a patient information management BBA with a long-term-care coding and reimbursement option.

Plaza College's catalog describes a 120-semester-credit BBA in patient information management. The degree combines health records, reimbursement, quality statistics, organizational resources, and healthcare leadership with information technology and medical administrative coursework.

Students can select a patient-care option or a long-term-care option covering gerontology, care across settings, documentation, coding, and reimbursement. The plan also includes health information professional practice and project management technology. These are the requirements of the cataloged BBA, which has a different focus from Plaza's master's degree in healthcare administration.

  • 120-credit catalog plan
  • Long-term-care option
  • Health records and reimbursement
3

Healthcare Management

State University of New York at Cortland

On campus

Cortland, NY

$7,070 in-state tuition68% graduation rate60% admit rate65.9 score

Cortland requires a full-time, semester-long fieldwork placement, and built the degree by joining its business economics and public health departments rather than housing it in one of them.

The college describes this as one of the first healthcare management degrees of its kind in the SUNY system, and the curriculum shows the join: human resource management, health economics, leadership and ethics in business, and operations and supply chain management sit alongside the organization and administration of health programs, health informatics and communication, and epidemiology and biostatistics.

The fieldwork is full-time and runs a semester, which is longer than the internships most programs at this level require. Electives let students angle the degree toward medicine or toward community-based and non-profit work. Cortland names a health economist and a healthcare management specialist among its full-time faculty, and points graduates at healthcare administration, human resources, finance and health informatics roles across hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and larger systems.

  • Full-time, semester-long fieldwork placement
  • Built across business economics and public health
  • Epidemiology and biostatistics in the core
  • Electives for non-profit or clinical settings
4

Health Administration, B.S.

Roberts Wesleyan

Fully online

Rochester, NY

$37,408 in-state tuition67% graduation rate71% admit rate62.5 score

Roberts Wesleyan requires two semester-long healthcare internships rather than one, and qualifying students can finish the master's in 14 months instead of 18.

The degree is sequenced business first: students build foundational skills in business administration, then complete the degree studying health administration, which is a different order from programs that teach the healthcare context first and add management later. The stated work is using business administration skills alongside clinicians and patients to improve the environment of patient care.

Two semester-long internships in healthcare settings are built into the undergraduate degree. For students continuing, the university shortens its Master of Health Administration to as little as 14 months against the usual 18 for those who qualify, so the combined route is materially faster than taking the two degrees separately.

  • Two semester-long healthcare internships
  • Business administration core taken first
  • MHA in as little as 14 months for qualifying students
  • Program guide published for the major
5

B.S. in Health Services Administration

CUNY Lehman

On campus

Bronx, NY

$6,930 in-state tuition51% graduation rate57% admit rate59.6 score

Lehman attaches a Nursing Home Administration certificate to the same department, so a student can add the credential for a licensed role alongside the B.S.

The B.S. in Health Services Administration sits in Lehman's Department of Health, Administration, Research and Technology, beside a Health Services Administration minor, a Nursing Home Administration certificate and an M.S. in the same field, which means the undergraduate degree, the specialist credential and the graduate step are all in one place. The department also runs public health programs, including a 4+1 route to a CUNY graduate public health degree.

Teaching combines online classes with hands-on internship experience in real-world settings. Because New York licenses and certifies a number of the roles this field leads to, CUNY publishes a disclosure about whether the program meets the educational requirements for licensure, which is worth reading if the nursing home administration route is the reason for choosing it.

  • Nursing Home Administration certificate in the same department
  • Online classes with an internship placement
  • Minor and M.S. in the same field
  • Published licensure disclosure for New York
6

Health Care Management, B.S.

SUNY College of Technology at Canton

Fully online

Canton, NY

$7,070 in-state tuition38% graduation rate92% admit rate59.1 score

Canton treats the 12-credit final-semester internship as optional, letting students substitute coursework or split the credits between the two, where most healthcare administration bachelor's programs make the field placement a requirement.

The degree pairs a business core in accounting, finance, human resources, marketing, and economics with healthcare coursework the program page names directly: Managed Care, Healthcare Finance, Healthcare Economics, Public Health, Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare, Quality and Patient Safety, Health Information Technology, and Healthcare Facility Administration. Canton makes a point of the B.S. designation itself, which carries a minimum of 60 credit hours in liberal arts and sciences against the 30 hours a BBA or B.Tech requires, so more of the four years sits outside the major than in most applied management degrees.

Coursework runs entirely online, though students can also attend face to face or combine the two formats. The program is built for three groups: high school graduates, working professionals, and transfer students arriving from healthcare, business, or liberal arts programs. The 12-credit internship sits in the final semester and is optional, with a course-based alternative or a mix of courses and placement. The School of Business and Liberal Arts holds specialized accreditation for its business programs through the International Accreditation Council for Business Education. Graduates can continue into MBA programs at Clarkson University or SUNY Empire through established connections.

  • 12-credit internship optional, with course alternative
  • 100% online, or face to face, or a mix
  • IACBE-accredited School of Business and Liberal Arts
  • Minimum 60 liberal arts credits in the B.S.
7

Healthcare Management

SUNY College of Technology at Delhi

Online and on campus

Delhi, NY

$7,070 in-state tuition45% graduation rate89% admit rate58.4 score

Delhi runs the degree as a crossover point for two different students, nursing majors who want out of direct patient care and business majors moving into healthcare, and gives both the same load of anatomy, physiology and epidemiology alongside budgeting and healthcare law.

The curriculum runs two tracks at once. On the clinical side, the program names epidemiology, anatomy and physiology, healthcare law and regulations, and ethics. On the management side, you develop and manage budgets, work through strategic planning, and take project management, policy, business, law, psychology and computer science coursework. Delhi describes the combination as hands-on nursing and healthcare instruction paired with business and technology education, and puts biology in the required mix alongside the healthcare courses. The stated aim is a graduate who can work well with practitioners, doctors and nurses, not only with the budget.

Delivery is the other decision. Delhi offers the degree either in a traditional classroom or in an online and on-campus hybrid format, which the college frames as an accommodation for students already working. The program is pitched at two starting points: nursing students who want a healthcare career beyond direct patient care, and business students moving into healthcare. That shapes the outcome list the page publishes, which leans toward operational roles rather than corporate ones: clinic manager, practice administrator, medical records supervisor, health information manager, nursing home administrator and dental office supervisor.

  • Classroom or online/on-campus hybrid format
  • Anatomy, physiology and epidemiology in the core
  • Aimed at nursing and business students alike
  • Budgeting, healthcare law and strategic planning
8

Healthcare Administration (BS)

University of Mount Saint Vincent

Fully online

Bronx, NY

$42,900 in-state tuition57% graduation rate85% admit rate54.4 score

Mount Saint Vincent offers an online healthcare administration BS with seven-week courses and up to 90 approved transfer credits.

The University of Mount Saint Vincent's 126-credit online BS is designed for working adults. Its entry requirements include a 2.0 GPA and either four years since high school or two years since high school plus at least 30 college credits. The degree combines healthcare administration, business, and general education.

Coursework covers electronic health records, healthcare marketing, U.S. health policy, accounting, and legal and ethical issues. A research course brings the curriculum together through an applied healthcare administration project. Students may transfer up to 90 approved credits toward the degree.

  • Seven-week online courses
  • 126 credits
  • Up to 90 transfer credits
9

Healthcare Policy and Management, B.S.

CUNY New York City College of Technology

Fully online

Brooklyn, NY

$6,930 in-state tuition21% graduation rate80% admit rate54.2 score

City Tech's Healthcare Policy and Management B.S. accepts students entering from high school, associate programs or other careers, with a separate application pathway into a CUNY graduate degree.

The program develops skills in health policy analysis, resource planning, financial management and the use of health technology. Students learn to apply computational methods to organizational processes and connect policy, management and finance in administrative settings.

The catalog describes an approved online offering. Students admitted to the CUNY School of Public Health's 4+1 pathway can take graduate courses during their junior and senior years that count toward both degrees. The bachelor's portion requires 120 credits.

  • Healthcare Policy and Management B.S.
  • Entry without prior clinical experience
  • Approved online offering
  • Optional CUNY 4+1 pathway
10

Health Services Administration, B.S.

CUNY New York City College of Technology

Fully online

Brooklyn, NY

$6,930 in-state tuition21% graduation rate80% admit rate54.2 score

City Tech's Health Services Administration B.S. is a completion pathway for students with a clinical associate degree and licensure, or an approved articulated background.

The catalog restricts entry to senior-level students who earned at least a 2.5 GPA. This pathway builds on earlier health care preparation and develops skills in planning, supervision, budgeting and the organization of health services.

Learning outcomes include applying financial analysis, evaluating health law and policy, and interpreting research data. Students also practice written communication, presentations and electronic media. City Tech lists the degree as approved for online delivery and maintains articulation agreements with associate programs across CUNY.

  • Clinical or articulated entry pathway
  • 2.5 entry GPA
  • Health services budgeting and policy
  • Approved online offering
11

B.S. in Health Administration

St. Joseph's University-New York

On campus

Brooklyn, NY

$35,840 in-state tuition69% graduation rate72% admit rate53.8 score

St. Joseph's runs health administration as its own department on the campus in Brooklyn, New York, rather than as a concentration inside a business or health sciences school.

The Department of Health Administration in Brooklyn, New York, builds the major around problem-solving, leadership, communication and business knowledge, and the university describes the intent as producing a well-rounded healthcare manager with the skills employers ask for. Having a department rather than a track means the faculty and the advising sit with the subject.

The program is described as competitive, and positions its graduates as scholars prepared for the challenges of the field rather than for one named job title. It is taught at the campus in Brooklyn, New York.

  • Its own department, not a concentration
  • Taught at the campus in Brooklyn, NY
  • Focus on leadership, communication and business
  • Competitive admission to the major
12

Health Studies, Health Administration Track

Siena

On campus

Loudonville, NY

$44,505 in-state tuition75% graduation rate69% admit rate53.4 score

Siena splits its Health Studies major into two tracks, and the health administration one is taught in the School of Science rather than in a business school.

Students choose between a health science track, built on microbiology and human anatomy for those heading to physical therapy, nutrition or physician assistant study, and a health administration track for those who intend to manage. The two share a major, so the decision is made inside the degree rather than at application.

The administration track covers project management and public policy, and Siena points its graduates at hospitals, clinics, wellness centres and human resources roles. A minor in the subject is offered alongside the major.

  • Health administration is one of two tracks
  • Taught inside the School of Science
  • Project management and public policy coursework
  • Available as a minor as well as a major
13

Healthcare Services Administration (BBA)

The College of Westchester

Fully online

White Plains, NY

$23,706 in-state tuition38% graduation rate94% admit rate52.6 score

Unlike most healthcare administration bachelor's degrees, this online BBA runs students through a full medical coding and hospital reimbursement sequence before the management courses begin.

The BBA runs 120 credits: 72 in major-related coursework, 33 in general education, and 15 in open electives, delivered entirely online and listed at 51 months in normal time. The major starts on the medical-office side, with Medical Terminology, Introduction to Medical Coding, Advanced Medical Coding, Hospital Reimbursement, and Health Information Technology. Upper-division HCA courses then move to the system level: US Healthcare, Global Healthcare Delivery Systems, Managed Care, Human Resource Management in Healthcare, Public Health Issues and Practices, and Long Term Care Administration, which the school ties to elder care organizations and an aging patient population.

Business coursework carries the management half: Principles of Management, Management Applications and Strategy, Financial Accounting I, Spreadsheet Applications, and Accounting for Managers. The program closes with HCA480, a Health Administration Capstone offered only to online students and required in the final four terms, built on case studies, comparative analyses, and field research rather than a placement. Two courses gate progress: Healthcare Law and Ethics and Administrative Medical Practices both require a C to continue, and a D forces a repeat. Foundations in Microbiology sits in the major but also satisfies a general education requirement. Transfer applicants from other institutions are evaluated by the Office of Bachelor Studies and Returning Students.

  • 120 credits: 72 major, 33 general education, 15 elective
  • Fully online, 51 months in normal time
  • Medical coding and hospital reimbursement coursework
  • Capstone required in the final four terms
14

Allied Health and Healthcare Leadership (BS)

Manhattan

Online and on campus

Riverdale, NY

$48,400 in-state tuition64% graduation rate79% admit rate52 score

Manhattan's 2021–22 catalog described a hybrid bachelor's route in allied health and healthcare leadership for adult learners.

Manhattan's 2021–22 undergraduate catalog placed allied health and healthcare leadership within organizational leadership. The published plan required 126 credits, combining general education, allied health courses, and electives or accepted transfer work. It described a hybrid format for working professionals.

The administrative coursework included hospital organization, the U.S. healthcare system, managerial accounting and finance, strategic planning, and legal issues. Industrial psychology and supervision courses addressed workplace management. The catalog also described individual academic advising and support for a capstone project; these details document that historical curriculum.

  • Historical 2021–22 curriculum
  • Hybrid delivery
  • Hospital organization
15

Healthcare Systems Management (BBA)

Metropolitan College of New York

Online and on campus

New York, NY

$19,338 in-state tuition40% graduation rate90% admit rate51.6 score

MCNY organizes its healthcare systems management BBA around eight semesters of applied projects tied to management responsibilities.

Metropolitan College of New York's 120-credit BBA combines business and healthcare coursework. Each 14-week semester has an administrative focus, progressing from professional development and relationships to quality, community needs, marketing, human resources, finance, and a healthcare business plan.

Students complete a live project each semester through MCNY's Constructive Action approach, applying classroom work to an administrative problem. The curriculum also covers medical terminology, insurance claims, communication, and assessment of healthcare services. The college offers full-time and part-time enrollment with onsite and hybrid classes.

  • 120 credits
  • Semester-long applied projects
  • Onsite and hybrid classes
16

Bachelor of Professional Studies in Healthcare Management

Trocaire

Fully online

Buffalo, NY

$20,240 in-state tuition31% graduation rate97% admit rate50.6 score

Trocaire delivers the degree in what it calls an "Asynchronous Plus Format," meaning self-paced weekly content plus a voluntary one-hour Q&A session each week that the instructor schedules, with any in-class meetings left optional.

Trocaire awards this as a Bachelor of Professional Studies rather than a BS, and it sits in the college's Division of Allied Health and Professions. The page aims it at people already working in healthcare in Western New York, not at students starting from zero. Trocaire says the curriculum was built with input from employers, industry experts and scholars, and names four course areas: Healthcare Management, Leadership, Strategic Planning and Quantitative Analysis. The stated intent is applying theory to practice using experience you already have from allied health work, so the coursework is meant to be usable on the job while you are still enrolled.

Delivery is the detail worth weighing. Coursework is primarily asynchronous with weekly self-paced content, and each week the instructor schedules a single one-hour Q&A session that students can attend or skip. In-class sessions exist but the page calls them optional, so nothing on the schedule requires a trip to the campus in Buffalo, New York. That is a lighter live commitment than online programs built around required synchronous seminars. It also means the weekly contact with an instructor is available rather than guaranteed, which suits a working schedule but puts the burden of pacing on you.

  • Asynchronous Plus Format with weekly optional Q&A
  • Optional in-class sessions, no required campus visits
  • Leadership, strategic planning, quantitative analysis
  • Division of Allied Health and Professions program
17

Healthcare Management (BS)

Maria College of Albany

On campus

Albany, NY

$18,000 in-state tuition30% graduation rate44% admit rate49 score

Maria College's healthcare management BS includes an internship and study of healthcare governance, mission, and strategy.

Maria's BS combines a 45-credit healthcare management core with liberal arts, science, and electives. Students study financial and managerial accounting alongside healthcare informatics, marketing, quality management, finance, law, and policy. Human resources and organizational leadership add a focus on managing people.

The published curriculum includes a healthcare management internship and a final capstone. Its liberal arts requirements include healthcare ethics and medical sociology, connecting administrative decisions to patients and communities. Maria also lists a transfer pathway granting third-year standing to Hudson Valley Community College graduates in community health navigation.

  • Required internship
  • Healthcare governance
  • 45-credit management core
18

Health Planning and Management (BS)

Alfred

On campus

Alfred, NY

$36,818 in-state tuition57% graduation rate74% admit rate48.3 score

Alfred's 2024–25 health planning and management major paired a business foundation with healthcare economics and a structured internship.

Alfred University's 2024–25 catalog described a BS major combining its business professional core with arts and sciences coursework. Required healthcare courses addressed delivery systems, public health, policy, legal and ethical issues, and healthcare economics.

The major included a three-credit internship and a seminar in healthcare planning and management. Students worked with a faculty advisor to choose electives and explore professional interests. The catalog required grades of C or better in the seven healthcare-major courses and in management and organizational behavior. These details describe the 2024–25 curriculum.

  • Historical 2024–25 curriculum
  • Three-credit internship
  • Healthcare economics
19

Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Management

Mount Saint Mary

On campus

Newburgh, NY

$41,820 in-state tuition65% graduation rate89% admit rate47.4 score

Run out of the School of Business, the major lets students attach a concentration in Finance, Marketing, or Sports Management, a specialization set most healthcare administration bachelor's programs do not offer.

The degree sits in the School of Business and is structured around 30 credits of business and healthcare management courses plus 18 credits in related fields. Coursework pairs standard business subjects, marketing, finance, management and leadership, with their healthcare applications: financing and payment structures, doctor and patient payment, insurance systems, information flow, financial management, and operations and administration. Students close out the program with a capstone course built to put the full sequence into practice. The college describes faculty as holding expertise in both business and health care, and points to working relationships with clinical facilities across the Hudson Valley.

Healthcare Management is offered as a major or a minor, and majors choose from Finance, Marketing, or Sports Management concentrations. Instruction is on campus in Newburgh, New York, roughly an hour north of New York City, so it is not an option for students who need online or evening-only delivery. The Center for Academic and Career Services is the stated route to finding placements. Mount Saint Mary College also runs an MBA in Healthcare Management, which the page presents as a continuation taught by the same faculty students had as undergraduates.

  • 30 credits of business and healthcare management courses
  • Concentrations in Finance, Marketing, Sports Management
  • Program concludes with a capstone course
  • Offered as a major or a minor, on campus only
20

Health Care Administration (BS)

Long Island

On campus

Brookville, NY

$40,248 in-state tuition57% graduation rate86% admit rate45.2 score

LIU Post's 2023–24 health care administration BS included a six-credit internship and study of resource allocation and program evaluation.

LIU Post's 2023–24 catalog described a 120-credit BS in health care administration at Brookville, New York. The major required American health systems, health law, resource allocation, research methods, administrative statistics, strategic planning, and organizational leadership. A six-credit internship connected that coursework to health and public administration practice.

Supporting courses addressed finance, personnel, and computer-based management systems, alongside economics and biomedical ethics. Elective choices included managed care, social and health policy, and services for vulnerable populations. These are historical catalog requirements.

  • Historical 2023–24 curriculum
  • Six-credit internship
  • Program evaluation
21

Health Services Management (BBA)

Berkeley College-New York

On campus

New York, NY

$26,629 in-state tuition44% graduation rate43 score

Health Services Management here is a BBA awarded through Berkeley's Larry L. Luing School of Business, which holds IACBE specialized accreditation, rather than a health sciences bachelor's built on clinical coursework.

Berkeley College runs Health Services Management as a Bachelor of Business Administration inside the Larry L. Luing School of Business, which has received specialized accreditation from the International Accreditation Council for Business Education. The coursework is built around the structure and dynamics of the healthcare industry: the roles hospitals, rehabilitation centers, long-term care facilities and individual practitioners play, and how private and governmental funding agencies interact with them. A separate thread covers the technology and specialized software used to collect, process and apply healthcare information, alongside critical thinking, problem solving, and producing written and oral communication.

The associate and bachelor's degrees are built to stack, so an AAS in Health Services Management carries into the BBA without a break. Students who enrolled before Fall 2024 finish under the program's earlier name, Health Services Administration. Berkeley describes the internship or job-related assignment as an opportunity students may have rather than a fixed requirement. Admission asks for graduation from an accredited high school or the equivalent plus an entrance exam or SAT/ACT scores, on rolling deadlines, with a personal interview strongly recommended. Both the New York and New Jersey campuses offer the program, and its courses also run online.

  • BBA from the Larry L. Luing School of Business
  • IACBE specialized business accreditation
  • AAS in Health Services Management stacks into the BBA
  • Offered on NY and NJ campuses, plus online courses

Listed but Not Ranked in New York

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.

Health Services Management (BS)

D'Youville

On campus

Buffalo, NY

$33,600 in-state tuition67% graduation rate81% admit rate

D'Youville's published health services management curriculum ends with an internship, capstone, and professional seminar.

D'Youville's catalog preserves a 121-credit BS plan with a 49-credit health services management major. Its courses cover population health, managerial epidemiology, insurance, finance, information management, quality improvement, and healthcare operations. Accounting, economics, and statistics precede the upper-level major coursework.

The final-year plan includes a five-credit internship, a three-credit capstone, and a one-credit seminar. Graduation requires a 2.5 cumulative GPA and at least a C in those three courses. These details describe the curriculum retained in the catalog during the announced admissions pause.

  • 121-credit catalog plan
  • Five-credit internship
  • Capstone and seminar

Why So Few New York Programs Can Be Finished Online

8 of these 21 degrees can be completed fully online, about 38% of them, and 10 require attendance. For a field whose students are overwhelmingly already working, often in the hospital they hope to be promoted inside, that is the constraint most likely to decide which of these programs is actually available to you.

It is worth being blunt about what this does to the ranking. Delivery carries 20% of the score, so a campus-only program starts 2 points behind an online one out of 100 before any other factor is counted. In a state where most programs are campus-based, that spreads the field less than it does elsewhere, and the ranking below is therefore decided more by completion and cost than by format. If you can attend in person, read the table by graduation rate. If you cannot, the shortlist is the 8 online entries and everything else on this page is background.

Where New York's CAHME-accredited Master's Programs Actually Are

New York holds an unusual concentration of CAHME accreditation. Columbia University, Cornell University, New York University, Hofstra University, Stony Brook University, Clarkson University Capital Regional Campus and Fordham University all hold it for a graduate program, which is more accredited institutions than most states have. CAHME is the only accreditor of master's-level healthcare management programs recognized by the US Department of Education, and administrative fellowships, the main route into hospital leadership, are frequently restricted to graduates of accredited programs.

Here is the part that matters for anyone reading this page. Not one of those institutions appears in the ranking below, because none of them offers a bachelor's degree classified under health care administration. So in the best-paying state in the country, the undergraduate degree and the accredited graduate degree are at different addresses. That is not a problem, since graduate applications are open to anyone, but it does change the plan: the route through New York is a bachelor's at one institution and an application out to another, rather than four years and two more at the same school.

Accreditation is a point-in-time status and CAHME publishes changes, including programs placed on probation. Check the CAHME directory before choosing a graduate program on the strength of it.

How We Scored New York'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 New York Healthcare Administration Rankings

Questions About Healthcare Administration Degrees in New York

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