Only California employs more healthcare managers than Texas. The state supports
58,420 of them with 20 healthcare
administration programs in Texas at the bachelor's level, and the cheapest of
those charges $960 a year in state, among the
lowest tuition of any ranked program in the country. The spread from there to
$43,900 is the widest thing on this page and the first thing worth
understanding.
20
Programs ranked
58,420
Managers employed in TX
$114,150
State median pay
8
Accredited master's in state
The Second-Largest Workforce in the Country, and Twenty Degrees Feeding It
Texas employs 58,420 medical and health services
managers. Only California has more. Against that the federal data records
20 ranked bachelor's programs, roughly
2,921 jobs for each one.
The pay does not follow the volume. At $114,150 the state median sits
$9,710 under the national $123,860, placing Texas
31st of the 51 jurisdictions the Bureau of Labor Statistics
reports. The middle half earn between $86,080 and $150,390, and
the top tenth clear $205,600. What that combination rewards is entering
cheaply, and Texas is unusually good at letting you: 14 of these
20 programs are public, averaging $5,541 a year
in state.
All 20 Healthcare Administration Programs in Texas, Ranked
All 20 ranked healthcare administration bachelor programs in Texas, with tuition, graduation rate and score
#
School
Type
Delivery
In-state tuition
Graduation rate
Master’s on site
Admission rate
Degrees awarded
Score
1
The University of Texas at Dallas
Public
On campus
$10,639
76%
65%
100
67
2
Brazosport
Public
Fully online
$2,613
56%
24
66.8
3
Sam Houston State
Public
Fully online
$5,856
55%
90%
77
66.7
4
LeTourneau
Private nonprofit
Fully online
$36,340
59%
38%
5
64.7
5
The University of Texas Permian Basin
Public
Fully online
$6,577
40%
95%
1
59.6
6
Abilene Christian
Private nonprofit
Fully online
$43,900
59%
66%
1
57.7
7
Weatherford
Public
Fully online
$6,600
35%
1
56.9
8
Texas State
Public
On campus
$8,606
55%
CAHME-accredited
89%
44
55.8
9
Tyler Junior
Public
Fully online
$960
27%
18
55.8
10
Dallas Baptist
Private nonprofit
Fully online
$38,340
57%
89%
5
55.5
11
University of Houston-Clear Lake
Public
On campus
$6,600
52%
91%
57
55
12
South Texas
Public
Fully online
$5,220
27%
70
54.2
13
Galveston
Public
Online and on campus
$2,400
33%
25
53.6
14
Texas Woman's
Public
On campus
$5,712
49%
96%
54
53.4
15
Midland
Public
Fully online
$3,930
23%
12
53.1
16
Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi
Public
On campus
$4,913
40%
89%
29
51.2
17
University of Phoenix-Texas
Private for-profit
On campus
$9,552
33%
1
45
18
West Coast University-Texas
Private for-profit
Fully online
$13,903
11%
9
44.6
19
Texas Southern
Public
On campus
$6,941
22%
97%
55
42
20
American InterContinental University-Houston
Private for-profit
On campus
$14,169
5%
2
32.1
Price and placement come apart sharply here. The University of Texas at Dallas leads the ranking, but Tyler Junior College charges $960 a year, less than half what the top program asks, and it still places 9th of 20. The University of Texas at Dallas 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: 11 of the 20 run fully online, led by Brazosport College at 2nd.
UT Dallas's 2026 Healthcare Management BS requires a 160-hour practicum, a senior capstone and a community-engagement experience.
The 120-credit degree places healthcare management within the Jindal School's business curriculum. Required healthcare subjects include regulation and economics, financial analysis, quality and operations, database management, information systems and data visualization.
The business core adds finance, marketing, organizational behavior or human resources, supply chains and artificial intelligence in business. Students register for Healthcare Management Internship to document at least 160 working hours. A separate business capstone and community-engagement requirement provide additional applied work.
Through a 4+1 arrangement, eligible seniors can take up to 12 graduate credit hours at a partner university and reverse transfer them into this bachelor's degree as electives or a specialization.
The Bachelor of Applied Science in Health Services Management runs entirely online, with 3000- and 4000-level courses on eight-week terms rather than a full semester. Coursework is built around case studies and industry deliverables such as action plans, root cause analyses, contingency plans and white papers instead of term papers and annotated bibliographies. The 33-hour upper division block covers US Health Care Delivery, Statistics for Health Care Managers, Financial Management for Health Care Managers, Healthcare Law and Ethics, Health Care Information Technology, Healthcare Operations Management, Human Resources in Health Care Management, and Health Economics and Policy, closing with the MHSM 4361 capstone.
The degree is built from 44 lower division academic hours, including the 42-hour core plus two science labs, 31 lower division technical hours, the 33 upper division major hours, and 12 electives. Applicants who arrive with an AAS or at least 25 credits in one technical field apply those to the technical block, while AA and AS holders have their electives evaluated at admission. Electives can be filled with transferred technical credits or a 12-hour specialization from Brazosport or a partner such as Bellevue University. Admission requires 30 credit hours from an accredited institution, a 2.0 GPA and a supplemental application.
All HSM courses online; 8-week upper division terms
The Health Care Administration BS combines 21 hours of business coursework in accounting, management, human resources and marketing with a health foundation that includes two semesters of anatomy and physiology.
The degree totals 120 hours, at least 42 of them advanced 3000 and 4000 level courses taken at a four-year institution. The health foundation runs from HLTH 1360 Fundamentals of Population Health and Health Careers and HLTH 2391 Human Diseases up through United States Health Care Systems, Epidemiology, Health Planning and Evaluation, Health Informatics, Health Laws and Ethics, and Public Health and Health Care Policy. Students take either HLTH 4367 Economics for Health Managers or ECON 4350 Health Economics. Science requirements include Human Anatomy and Physiology I and II, introductory chemistry, and nutrition.
The HCA Administration concentration is 21 hours drawn from business: Principles of Financial Accounting, Business Legal Environment, Business Communication, Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Management, Human Resource Management and Principles of Marketing, plus five hours of prescribed electives that range from Corporate Finance to Global Health. HLTH 4393 Professional Preparation for Health Careers gates the HLTH 4394 Internship Program, and both require a grade of C or better. HLTH 1360 and HLTH 2391 are prerequisites for most upper-level health courses, so the four-year plan places them in the first two years. A minor is optional, though the Minor in Health cannot be paired with this major.
120 hours, 42 at the 3000 or 4000 level
21-hour business concentration inside the major
Internship follows a required prep course, C or better
UT Permian Basin's Healthcare Management BBA offers an online route combining healthcare management, project management and quality improvement.
The 120-credit BBA draws on business foundations before applying them to healthcare organizations. The university's online program addresses financial management, patient services and the legal and regulatory environment.
The 2026–27 catalog includes healthcare management, project management and a choice of quality-management courses, along with an international business subject. Major options include healthcare accounting, law, finance, information systems and human resources. A Strategic Management capstone completes the business core, and at least 30 upper-level credits must be earned at UTPB.
ACU's 2020–21 online BS brochure describes a 120-credit degree with healthcare leadership and communication coursework.
The historical program brochure allocates 56 credits to general education and university requirements and 13 to electives. It explains that the specific general education courses depend on the student's incoming transfer credits.
Listed coursework includes healthcare leadership and relationship management, health communication, cultural diversity, organizational decision-making and crisis management. The leadership course addresses hiring, organizational structure, conflict resolution and relationships with stakeholders in healthcare facilities.
Weatherford's Medical and Health Services Management BAT offers online and campus formats, with a required 144-hour final-semester practicum.
The 120-credit Bachelor of Applied Technology addresses healthcare operations, management, regulatory compliance and strategic decisions. The college identifies a fully online option for working professionals and a face-to-face option beginning Fall 2026.
Both formats use the same curriculum and learning outcomes. During the final semester, students complete 144 hours with healthcare organizations and professionals through the Health Care Management Practicum. The program's competency areas include communication, leadership, professionalism, healthcare environments and business skills.
Texas State's BHA in San Marcos, Texas, is taught face to face and ends its four-semester professional sequence with an administrative residency.
The 120-credit degree includes 57 major-specific credits and is identified by the school as an AUPHA-certified undergraduate program. Healthcare Organization is completed before the professional sequence begins.
Students progress through healthcare accounting and finance, human resources, information systems, law, quality management and operations. Later courses address public health administration, marketing and strategy. The final professional semester centers on the required Healthcare Administrative Residency. The school explicitly describes instruction as fully face to face on the campus in San Marcos, Texas.
Major coursework meets one night per week in five-week terms, so students take a single healthcare course at a time while finishing the remaining core requirements online or on evenings and weekends.
The Bachelor of Applied Technology in Healthcare Administration is a degree completion program built for people already working in healthcare who want to move into management. Coursework in the major runs one night per week in five-week terms, which puts a student in one healthcare course at a time rather than several at once. All other required core courses are available online, in the evenings and on weekends. Tyler Junior College lists a separate associate degree in healthcare administration alongside this bachelor's program, and links between the two from the same program page.
TJC has open admissions, but enrollment in this program is limited and applicants are selected rather than simply registered. Requirements should be completed before selection, and the program publishes both an admissions information packet and a separate program admissions application as PDFs. Faculty are drawn from hospitals and clinics in the area around Tyler, Texas, and the college developed the curriculum with East Texas healthcare employers. Graduates are prepared to make facility-level decisions, apply new technology to the delivery of care, and work within government regulation on cost and quality.
Bachelor of Applied Technology degree completion
Major courses meet one night a week, 5-week terms
Core courses online, evenings and weekends
Limited enrollment with a separate program application
Dallas Baptist's 2021–22 Health Care Management BAS plan includes a healthcare management seminar with a field-based service-learning component.
The historical Bachelor of Arts and Sciences plan requires 120 credits, including a 30-credit healthcare management major. The major covers healthcare ethics, finance, legal issues, organizational behavior and human resources, supported by management, marketing and information systems.
An advanced healthcare management seminar includes service learning. General studies incorporate religion, writing, history, science and a lifelong-learning course. At least 12 major credits must be completed at DBU, including nine at the upper level. These requirements come from the 2021–22 catalog.
Where you take classes depends on how you enter: first-year students start on the Clear Lake campus, while transfer students finish the degree in UHCL's classrooms inside the Texas Medical Center.
The Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Administration sits inside UHCL's College of Business, and the coursework leans that way: accounting, management, business finance, information systems, healthcare planning and medical reimbursement. Delivery is hybrid, pairing online coursework with in-person instruction. First-year students complete their core classes on the Clear Lake campus. Transfer students take their remaining coursework at the university's Texas Medical Center location on Fannin Street, which places them next to the hospitals and physician groups that supply the program's internships and co-ops.
Admission runs through the College of Business, with separate application paths for freshman, transfer and international applicants. Students already enrolled at UHCL need no additional application form and simply register for the courses. The program publishes a degree plan and map along with a transfer guide showing which courses taken at a Texas community college carry over. The College of Business holds Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International accreditation in business and separate accreditation in accounting. Student chapters include the Medical Group Management Association, the Healthcare Financial Management Association, Upsilon Phi Delta and the UHCL Healthcare Student Association.
Transfer students finish at the Texas Medical Center
Hybrid: online coursework plus in-person instruction
College of Business holds AACSB accreditation
Transfer guide maps Texas community college courses
The online Bachelor of Applied Technology accepts applicants with an associate degree or 60 college credits in a related discipline, combining their earlier study with upper-division management coursework.
Admission is open to applicants who have completed an associate degree of any type, AS, AAS or AA, or who hold 60 college credit hours in a related discipline. South Texas College lists nursing, EMT paramedic, health information technology, medical assistant technology, occupational therapy assistant, radiologic technology, respiratory therapy, pharmacy technology, physical therapist assistant, business administration and human resources management among the qualifying backgrounds, so credit earned in a technical program counts toward the 120 hours rather than being set aside. The published plan of study is TSI liable, runs 100% online, and is laid out as a four-year course sequence.
Lower-division terms mix the Texas core with applied coursework including HITT 1305 Medical Terminology I, MDCA 1343 Medical Insurance, POFM 2310 Intermediate Medical Coding and ACCT 2301 Principles of Financial Accounting, plus technical support and technical specialty electives. The upper-division MHSM courses carry the management content: Principles of Health Care Management, U.S. Health Care Delivery, Statistics for Health Care Managers, Financial Management for Health Care Managers, Health Care Information Technology, Risk Management for Health Professionals, Project Management for Healthcare, Human Resources in Health Care Management and Public and Community Health Management. The final spring includes MHSM 4361, a health care management practicum.
Galveston's Healthcare Management BAS builds on a healthcare AAS and includes a five-credit management practicum or residency.
The 120-semester-credit degree combines general education and transferred technical coursework with 45 upper-level healthcare management credits. Admission requires an eligible healthcare Associate of Applied Science and a separate program application.
Eight-week courses address revenue integrity, health information technology, finance, risk, ethics and human resources. The plan also includes operations, project management and strategic leadership. Galveston describes primarily distance instruction with a hybrid course each term. At least 45 degree credits must be earned at the college.
Texas Woman's Health Care Administration BBA offers a general track and a clinical track that incorporates prior science coursework.
The 120-credit BBA has 51 credits of business and healthcare major requirements. Healthcare courses cover accounting, finance, economics, global health, law and policy. Business analytics, information systems, operations and a final-semester Business Policy course support the major.
The general track adds advanced business electives. The clinical track includes nutrition and anatomy and physiology, allowing students moving from clinical study to apply science coursework to the degree. The catalog identifies this BBA with CIP 51.0701.00.
Midland's online Health Services Management BAS offers full-time and part-time pathways for students bringing an associate degree and technical coursework.
The program accepts approved associate-degree backgrounds in healthcare, nursing, information technology, business and related fields. Its admissions description requires 41 hours of approved technical coursework; applicants with an AA or AS can qualify after completing that technical requirement.
Most program courses run for eight weeks. The published full-time pathway schedules two courses per session, while the part-time pathway schedules one. The final MHSM 4451 course lasts sixteen weeks. Completion time depends in part on how much general education a student has already finished.
Texas A&M–Corpus Christi's Healthcare Administration BS combines a 45-credit major with an adviser-approved specialization and a five-credit practicum.
The catalog lists 120 to 126 total credits, depending on the degree plan. Students work with an adviser to select a specialization or minor, using electives in areas such as business, information systems, public health or preparation for professional school.
Major courses address epidemiology, finance, program planning, information technology, law, human resources and quality management. Global health and health disparities are also part of the sequence. The five-credit practicum is an institution-based project with on-site hours, preceded by coursework assessing accumulated knowledge and preparing students for professional work.
Phoenix's 2024–25 catalog for Dallas, Texas, lists a 120-credit Health Administration BS with a healthcare strategy capstone and fifteen credits of upper-level healthcare electives.
The catalog specific to Dallas, Texas, connects general education with courses in healthcare management, accounting, finance, human resources, information systems and quality improvement. Medical terminology, business communication and U.S. healthcare delivery provide the foundation.
Students complete Health Care Strategy Capstone and select upper-level healthcare electives. The catalog describes options in general health administration, health information systems and lifespan management, with eligible en-route credentials governed by the student's enrollment agreement. These details reflect the published 2024–25 program in Dallas, Texas.
West Coast University's online Health Administration BS offers finance and strategic management tracks, both listed for its Texas campus by WSCUC.
The 120-credit degree combines 39 general education credits, 30 elective credits and 51 credits in core and track courses. Students study healthcare operations, policy, law, ethics, organizational behavior and strategic planning.
The finance track focuses on accounting, economics and financial decisions, while strategic management adds entrepreneurship and business analytics. Eligible students can take graduate courses through a BSHA-to-MHA bridge. The Texas campus's institutional-accreditor listing confirms the bachelor's degree and both tracks as distance-education offerings.
Texas Southern's 121-credit Health Administration BS includes a six-credit internship and a separate capstone with interprofessional education.
The 2026–27 plan includes 63 major credits covering healthcare finance, information systems, population health, long-term care, policy and research. Later courses address disparities, leadership, operations, quality control, strategy and marketing.
The final-year internship is limited to students who have completed prior program requirements and received approval for assignment. The final-semester capstone adds interprofessional education. Independent study appears as an optional, program-director-approved course, while the internship and capstone are degree requirements.
AIU's Healthcare Management bachelor's offers a Health Services Administration Management specialization with five-week courses.
The university lists the 180-credit program online and at its locations in Atlanta, Georgia, and Houston, Texas. The specialization focuses on the structure, operation and regulation of the U.S. healthcare system, with applications in hospitals, physician practices, insurance and long-term care.
You study organizational leadership, financial management, compliance and strategic planning. The core includes accounting, the legal and ethical environment of business, financial management and an introduction to healthcare. The finance course examines forecasting, capital budgeting, financial statements and the risks involved in projects.
Health Services Administration Management specialization
Texas Has as Many Accredited Master's Programs as Anywhere, and Almost None of Them Start Here
This is the fact that most changes what a Texas reader should do, and it is
invisible from any single program page. Texas holds 8 CAHME-accredited master's programs
, the joint highest count of any state:
Texas A&M University-College Station, Texas State University, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas Woman's University, The University of Texas at Dallas, Baylor University, Trinity University, University of the Incarnate Word. CAHME is the only
accreditor of healthcare management master's programs recognized by the US
Department of Education, and administrative fellowships, the usual route into
hospital leadership, are frequently restricted to its graduates.
3 of those institutions also run a bachelor's degree ranked on this page. Compare Florida, which holds the same number of accredited master's
programs and has seven institutions offering both steps. The headline figure is
identical and the practical meaning is opposite: in Florida a reader can pick
one campus and stay on it, and in Texas the strong graduate tier is somewhere
you apply to later rather than somewhere you continue into.
That is not an argument against studying in Texas. Graduate applications are
open to anyone and the accredited programs are here, which is more than most
states can say. It is an argument for choosing the bachelor's on its own
merits, cost and completion and format, rather than on a continuity that
mostly does not exist in this state. The
full list of accredited master's programs is on this site, and CAHME publishes status changes in its
own directory.
Completion Is Low Across Texas, and Paying More Does Not Fix It
The 14 public programs graduate 42% of the students
who enroll and the 6 private ones 37%. Those are
low figures on both sides and only 5 points apart, which makes
Texas unusual: in most states the sector gap is the story, and here it barely
registers. What does differ is price. Public tuition averages
$5,541 and private $26,034, roughly
4.7 times as much for a
completion rate that is slightly lower.
Two honest caveats. Graduation rate is reported for the whole institution
rather than this department, so it describes the university around the degree
as much as the degree. And several of these are open-admission institutions
serving working adults and transfer students, for whom a four-year completion
clock is a poor measure of anything. The figure is still the best comparable
signal available, which is why it carries 40% of the score, but it should be
read as a description of the student body as much as of the teaching.
How We Scored Texas'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 Texas 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 Texas
How many healthcare administration programs are there in Texas?
20 bachelor's programs at 20 Texas institutions are ranked here, 11 of them finishable fully online. Texas also holds 8 CAHME-accredited master's programs, the joint highest count of any state.
What do healthcare administrators earn in Texas?
A median of $114,150 against $123,860 nationally, so Texas pays $9,710 below the national figure and sits 31st of the 51 jurisdictions BLS reports. The middle half earn between $86,080 and $150,390. The state employs 58,420 of these managers, the 2nd largest workforce in the country. Figures are BLS OEWS, May 2025.
Which Texas schools offer a CAHME-accredited healthcare administration masters?
8: Texas A&M University-College Station, Texas State University, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas Woman's University, The University of Texas at Dallas, Baylor University, Trinity University, University of the Incarnate Word. CAHME accredits master's programs only, so none of the bachelor's degrees on this page carries it. 3 of those institutions also run a bachelor's ranked here.
What is the cheapest healthcare administration degree in Texas?
Tyler Junior College at $960 a year in state, which is among the lowest tuition of any ranked program in the country. Across Texas the 14 public programs average $5,541 and the 6 private ones $26,034.
Can you study healthcare administration online in Texas?
11 of the 20 ranked programs can be finished fully online and 8 require attendance. That is a higher online share than most large states manage, which matters in a state this size where the nearest campus may be a long way off.
Healthcare Administration Programs in Other States