Ohio splits almost exactly down the middle: 8 public and
9 private healthcare administration programs in Ohio, one of
the evenest divisions of any state on this site. That makes it one of the few places where
the public-versus-private question can be asked without the answer being an
artefact of one sector having three entries and the other twenty.
1 Bachelor of Technical and Applied Studies in Applied Administration: Healthcare Leadership
University of Cincinnati-Main Campus
Fully online
Cincinnati, OH
$11,685 in-state tuition75% graduation rate85% admit rate73.2 score
This is a completion degree rather than a route in from high school: entry requires an associate degree plus a current healthcare certification or license.
The Bachelor of Technical and Applied Studies in Applied Administration: Healthcare Leadership is designed for people already working in healthcare who want the bachelor's without losing credit for the associate degree they already hold. Admission is open to holders of an associate degree in an allied health or health-related program who also hold certification or licensure in their area of practice. There is a second route for those whose associate degree is in a non-health field, which additionally requires a healthcare certification or licensure and at least five years of work experience. Students enter as juniors and complete 60 credit hours at Cincinnati.
The delivery is built around people who are working while they study. Courses run on what Cincinnati calls a course carousel, so a student can begin in any semester rather than waiting for a September intake, and both full-time and part-time paths are available. A full-time student finishes in five semesters, though the actual length depends on how many credit hours are awarded on application. The program is taught online and emphasizes communication, collaboration and strategic planning, aimed at moving a practitioner into supervisory, managerial and administrative roles rather than starting a career from nothing.
- Requires an associate degree plus certification or licensure
- 60 credit hours, entering as a junior
- Course carousel allows a start in any semester
- Full-time route of five semesters, part-time also offered
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2 Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences
Kettering
Fully online
Kettering, OH
$16,320 in-state tuition65% graduation rate77% admit rate68.7 score
Kettering compresses the four-year degree into three years of full-time study, and the same major doubles as a pre-occupational-therapy track.
The Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences in Healthcare Management is the equivalent of a four-year degree taken in three years full-time, at roughly 120 hours including general education and business management coursework. Kettering describes the major as blended: courses run both online and on the Kettering College campus rather than exclusively either way. During the final year students complete an internship at a healthcare organization.
The degree is deliberately built to serve two different readers. One is heading for healthcare management and can use it as a bridge to a master's in healthcare administration. The other is heading for occupational therapy, and the pre-OT emphasis is designed to meet the prerequisites for Kettering College's own Occupational Therapy Doctorate and for most other graduate programs in that field. Admission asks applicants to meet college admission requirements and to clear a math placement threshold, scoring at least 70 percent on the placement test or presenting transfer credit equivalent to MATH 105, before progressing to MATH 155.
- A four-year degree completed in three years full-time
- Blended delivery, online and on the Kettering campus
- Final-year internship at a healthcare organization
- Pre-OT emphasis meeting the prerequisites for Kettering's OTD
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3 BS in Healthcare Administration
The Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Fully online
Cincinnati, OH
$17,325 in-state tuition56% graduation rate59% admit rate67.4 score
The Christ College's online Healthcare Administration BS ends with a choice between a three-credit capstone and an internship.
This bachelor's program accepts first-year students, transfer students and applicants pursuing a second degree. Coursework covers healthcare finance, human resources, marketing, analytics and policy, with additional study of quality, ethics, consumer engagement and social determinants of health.
The final-term curriculum gives students a capstone or internship option. The college identifies its relationship with The Christ Hospital Health Network as a source of applied-learning opportunities. Listed internship areas include accounting, human resources, technology, revenue cycle and marketing; the choice of experience depends on the student's program plan.
- Online bachelor's degree
- Capstone or internship
- First-year and transfer entry
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4 Healthcare Administration - Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
University of Toledo
Fully online
Toledo, OH
$10,102 in-state tuition57% graduation rate92% admit rate65.6 score
Toledo builds a business minor into the four-year degree, so every graduate leaves with the minor alongside the healthcare administration major.
The B.S. in Healthcare Administration is taught in the School of Population Health, inside the College of Health and Human Services, and runs 120 credits either as four years or as a 2+2. Coursework covers quality improvement, leadership and management, problem solving and financial management. The distinguishing structural feature is the business minor: Toledo states that students graduate with it as part of the four-year program rather than as an optional addition. The degree can be completed fully online as well as face to face.
Toledo puts unusual weight on placement, and reports that 90 percent of Healthcare Administration majors complete an internship, in settings including hospitals, nursing homes and insurance companies. Instructors are drawn from people who have worked for hospitals, insurers and other healthcare organizations. Students can join the University of Toledo Healthcare Administration Student Association, which connects them to healthcare managers working in the region, and undergraduate research is available from the first year. Ohio residents accepted into the program qualify for the Choose Ohio First scholarship, a four-year renewable award, because the program carries a STEM designation. Toledo is direct that a master's is usually required to reach senior executive roles.
- A business minor built into the four-year program
- 90 percent of majors complete an internship
- Available fully online or face to face
- Choose Ohio First scholarship eligibility for Ohio residents
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5 BS in Healthcare Administration
Mercy College of Ohio
Fully online
Toledo, OH
$16,500 in-state tuition56% graduation rate93% admit rate62.6 score
Mercy College of Ohio's online Healthcare Administration BS includes a healthcare management certificate and an optional graduate-course pathway for seniors.
The program is fully online with no campus attendance requirement and offers fall, spring and summer starts. Coursework connects leadership and organizational behavior with healthcare finance, law, ethics, reimbursement, quality improvement and patient safety.
Students complete applied projects and can earn the embedded Healthcare Management Certificate through the bachelor's curriculum. The college also evaluates eligible credentials and prior learning for credit. Through its MHA fast-track option, seniors can take up to six graduate credits while completing the bachelor's degree.
- Fully online; no campus requirement
- Embedded management certificate
- Optional six-credit graduate pathway
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6 Healthcare Administration
University of Northwestern Ohio
Fully online
Lima, OH
$12,020 in-state tuition54% graduation rate62.5 score
UNOH builds the degree as a 2+2, so the bachelor's is the second half of a route that begins with a health-related associate degree.
The Healthcare Administration degree at the University of Northwestern Ohio is structured as a 2+2 program in the College of Health Professions. Students first complete a UNOH associate degree in Medical Assisting, Medical Office Management or Health Information Technology, or transfer in any health-related associate degree, and then complete the bachelor's in Healthcare Administration on top of it. UNOH's stated reason for the structure is that it gives a graduate both the hands-on clinical-adjacent training of the associate and the business skills a manager needs.
The degree is aimed at the non-clinical side of the field: planning, directing and coordinating medical and health services, whether that means running a facility, a single clinical department or a physician group practice, and implementing changes as healthcare laws, regulations and technology shift. UNOH names clinical services director, health services administrator, hospital director, medical and health information manager, nursing home manager and public health administrator among the roles it prepares graduates for.
- A 2+2 structure built on a health-related associate degree
- Feeder associates in Medical Assisting, Medical Office Management or Health Information Technology
- Taught in the College of Health Professions in Lima, OH
- Aimed at non-clinical management of facilities and practices
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7 Bachelor of Science in Health Care Administration (BSHCA)
Bowling Green State University-Main Campus
On campus
Bowling Green, OH
$11,405 in-state tuition64% graduation rate81% admit rate59.5 score
BGSU runs an accelerated bachelor's-to-master's route in which up to nine credits count toward both the BSHCA and its own master's in health care administration.
The Bachelor of Science in Health Care Administration sits in the Department of Public and Allied Health, inside the College of Health and Human Services, and is built around the administrative rather than the clinical side of the field. The first two years carry general education alongside introductory healthcare and science coursework in public health, allied health professions and biology. The junior and senior years move to the material the degree is named for: human resource management, healthcare financial management, healthcare law, emerging infectious diseases, international health and policies in healthcare, with medical terminology and human diseases alongside them.
Two things distinguish the route out. Students who continue to BGSU's master's in health care administration can carry up to nine credits into both degrees through the accelerated bachelor's-to-master's option, and BGSU is explicit that a graduate degree is what moves someone past entry-level administration. Graduates of either degree also qualify for membership in the Midwest Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Every student develops a personalized plan with an advisor, and an internship placement pairs with a capstone project built to complement it. BGSU names ProMedica, Cleveland Clinic, Bon Secours Mercy Health and Otterbein Senior Life among the organizations that have recruited its graduates.
- Accelerated bachelor's-to-master's sharing up to nine credits
- Membership eligibility in the Midwest Chapter of ACHE
- Internship paired with a complementary capstone project
- Upper-level courses taught by working healthcare professionals
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8 Health Services Administration, Bachelor of Science
Ohio University-Main Campus
On campus
Athens, OH
$14,158 in-state tuition65% graduation rate85% admit rate58.3 score
The core carries a Long Term Care Administration Core of Knowledge course and offers a Practicum in Nursing Home Administration in place of the standard internship, which is unusual in an undergraduate curriculum.
Ohio University teaches Health Services Administration at its Southern campus as a Bachelor of Science of at least 120 semester hours. The core is specific and long: Health System Organization, Financing and Delivery; Human Resources Management in Health Care; Community Health Epidemiology; Leadership and Management of Health Care Organizations; Introduction to Health Informatics; Quality Improvement in Healthcare Organizations; Health Care Finance I; Health Care Policy; Health Care Law and Ethics; Strategic Marketing for Health Care Organizations; and Administrative Applications in Health Care Organizations. Professional requirements add accounting, microeconomics, macroeconomics, management, organizational behavior, marketing principles and public speaking, with a choice between fundamental health economics and the economics of health care.
Two features set the curriculum apart. HLTH 3250, Long Term Care Administration Core of Knowledge, sits in the required core, and the capstone can be taken either as HLTH 4910, an internship in health services administration, or as HLTH 4920, a Practicum in Nursing Home Administration Alternatives, which points the degree at the one credential in this field that is a state license rather than a voluntary certification. The College of Health Sciences and Professions also requires two credit hours of interprofessional education, drawn from a list running from gerontology to rural and underserved populations to clinical ethics. Admission at Ohio University's regional campuses is open to anyone holding a high school diploma or GED, on rolling admissions, and the OHIO Guarantee fixes tuition and most fees for four years. West Virginia residents qualify for in-state rates at the Southern campus, as do Kentucky residents in nearby counties.
- Long Term Care Administration Core of Knowledge in the required core
- Nursing Home Administration practicum as an alternative to the internship
- OHIO Guarantee fixes tuition and most fees for four years
- In-state rates for West Virginia residents and nearby Kentucky counties
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9 BS in Health Care Management
Cleveland State
On campus
Cleveland, OH
$12,872 in-state tuition51% graduation rate91% admit rate52.3 score
Cleveland State's 120-credit Health Care Management BS combines a business core with 31 credits in the healthcare management major.
The degree includes 27 credits of business core courses and 31 credits of healthcare management requirements. Its focus spans healthcare delivery, finance, marketing, law and information systems, connecting organizational decisions with the way health services operate.
Students also complete nine additional courses totaling 27 credits, including two writing-across-the-curriculum courses. This part of the plan can support electives, a minor, a certificate, a second major or preparation for graduate study. Transfer students must complete at least half of their major requirements at Cleveland State.
- 120-credit BS
- 31-credit healthcare management core
- Flexible supporting coursework
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10 Bachelor of Business Administration in Healthcare Management
Tiffin
Fully online
Tiffin, OH
$32,790 in-state tuition40% graduation rate80% admit rate52.1 score
Tiffin's Healthcare Management B.B.A. combines a business foundation with applied projects on community issues and an internship or research option.
The 120-credit degree covers health care operations, strategy, medical terminology, information management, law and ethics. Tiffin offers campus study and an asynchronous online format with seven-week terms; online assignments have deadlines without scheduled live classes.
Students work on a community-focused research project that develops across the program. Courses use cases and group work to examine management problems and cultural differences in care. The separate B.B.A.-to-M.B.A. pathway allows approved coursework to count toward both degrees.
- 120-credit B.B.A.
- Campus or asynchronous online study
- Community research project
- Internship or research option
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11 Tiffin
Fully online
Tiffin, OH
$32,790 in-state tuition40% graduation rate80% admit rate52.1 score
A small online cohort, 1 that year.
12 BA in Health Care Management
Baldwin Wallace
On campus
Berea, OH
$38,832 in-state tuition67% graduation rate76% admit rate51.2 score
Baldwin Wallace's published Tri-C transfer plan pairs the Health Care Management BA with two internships and a required minor or second major.
The A2BW plan connects an associate degree at Cuyahoga Community College with a 124-credit bachelor's degree at Baldwin Wallace. It allows up to 62 associate-degree credits to transfer and requires at least 45 credits at BW. These are the requirements of the published transfer route.
The major brings together health law and ethics, business analytics, medical terminology, healthcare finance and strategic management. Its sample final year includes two three-credit internships alongside applied problem-solving coursework. A minor or second major adds another area of study to the healthcare management curriculum.
- Published Tri-C transfer pathway
- Two internships
- Minor or second major required
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13 Healthcare Administration
Shawnee State
On campus
Portsmouth, OH
$9,448 in-state tuition48% graduation rate51 score
Shawnee State's historical health-management curriculum combined acute-care or extended-care study with substantial field experience.
In its 2005–07 catalog, Shawnee offered Health Management as a concentration in the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Students completed 800 hours in healthcare facilities through a combination of practicum and internship courses. Coursework covered personnel management, medical terminology, healthcare accounting, reimbursement and policy.
A July 2022 university update described the bachelor's program as Healthcare Administration, with tracks focused on hospital administration or long-term care. The older catalog details here document the program's history; they describe the requirements of that catalog period.
- Historical program details
- Acute and extended care
- Practicum and internship
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14 BS in Healthcare Administration
Franklin
Fully online
Columbus, OH
$9,552 in-state tuition11% graduation rate46.2 score
Franklin's online Healthcare Administration BS offers separate pathways for students bringing patient-care coursework and those entering from other backgrounds.
The 120-semester-credit degree uses six- and twelve-week online courses. Its technical pathway is intended for students with at least ten transferable patient-care credits, while the nontechnical pathway accommodates students whose previous coursework comes from other fields.
The curriculum addresses healthcare leadership, quality improvement, informatics, finance and policy. Case studies and simulations ask students to apply management concepts, while field interviews and visits connect those concepts with healthcare organizations. The program also examines community health and the effects of healthcare reform on service delivery.
- 120 semester credits
- Six- and twelve-week online courses
- Technical and nontechnical pathways
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15 BS in Health Services Administration
Ohio University-Zanesville Campus
On campus
Zanesville, OH
$6,362 in-state tuition22% graduation rate41.8 score
Zanesville's Health Services Administration BS offers an internship or nursing home administration practicum within its 120-credit degree plan.
The campus publishes a curriculum that combines business foundations with healthcare operations. Accounting, economics, marketing and statistics support major courses in healthcare finance, leadership, information systems, quality improvement and health policy.
Students complete either HLTH 4910 Internship or HLTH 4920 Nursing Home Administration Practicum. The major also includes epidemiology, long-term care administration and legal and ethical issues in healthcare. Supporting electives allow study in areas such as aging, global health and Appalachian studies.
- Campus degree in Zanesville, OH
- 120 semester credits
- Two field-experience options
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16 Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Administration
Herzing University-Akron
On campus
Akron, OH
$12,360 in-state tuition19% graduation rate95% admit rate39.1 score
Herzing's 120-credit Healthcare Administration B.S. offers online classes and a choice between an applied capstone and an internship where permitted.
Coursework includes health policy, conflict resolution, epidemiology, finance, medical law and health care human resources. The capstone uses a team project with interim reports and a final presentation; the internship provides supervised workplace experience. Herzing limits the internship option in some states.
Students may transfer up to 90 approved credits. A prior allied health degree is not required for entry. Eligible undergraduates can also apply approved graduate coursework toward both their bachelor's and a qualifying graduate program.
- 120-credit B.S.
- Online classes
- Capstone or eligible internship
- Up to 90 approved transfer credits
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17 BS in Health Services Administration
Ohio University-Lancaster Campus
On campus
Lancaster, OH
$6,362 in-state tuition14% graduation rate38.6 score
Ohio University's campus in Lancaster, Ohio, offers the 120-credit Health Services Administration BS with a foundation in business and healthcare operations.
Lancaster's program page identifies this bachelor's degree as a local campus offering. The curriculum combines accounting, economics, management and statistics with healthcare finance, human resources, informatics, law and policy.
The university's published degree plan includes an internship or a nursing home administration practicum, alongside coursework in quality improvement and administrative applications. Lancaster and Zanesville link to the same university degree requirements. Students can use supporting electives to explore subjects such as aging, Appalachian studies or global health.
- Campus degree in Lancaster, OH
- 120 semester credits
- Internship or administration practicum
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