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Online MHA Programs: The 36 That Are CAHME-Accredited

Edited by Taylor Rupe, B.A. Psychology, University of Washington Seattle · B.S. Computer Science, Oregon State University

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The federal data records 228 online masters in healthcare administration. 36 of them hold CAHME accreditation. This is that list, in full, scored on the same model as every other master's program on this site and ordered by it.

Accredited and online CAHME

36

16% of the online field

Online programs in total IPEDS

228

at every accreditation status

States IPEDS

24

with an accredited online program

Median pay BLS

$123,860

medical and health services managers

Accreditation Is Rarer Among Online MHA Programs

A reader shopping for online MHA programs meets 228 of them. 36 carry CAHME accreditation. The rest are real degrees from real universities that have not sought, or not yet obtained, the accreditation that this field's fellowship route tends to require.

The size of that gap is its own argument and we have made it separately: online programs hold the accreditation at 16% against 36% on campus, which is set out with the full comparison in the analysis of why online MHA programs are half as likely to be accredited. What that piece does not do is name them. This page is the list it points at.

An online masters in healthcare administration is the same credential wherever it is taught. Accreditation is granted to a program, not to a classroom, and CAHME publishes no separate standard for online delivery. An accredited online program and an accredited residential one are the same standing on paper. The thing that differs is how many of each there are.

Every For-Profit Accredited Program Is an Online One

Of the 103 CAHME-accredited master's programs in this data, 3 are at for-profit institutions, and all 3 of them are online. Not one accredited on-campus program is for-profit.

That is worth knowing before filtering, because it means choosing online does not only change how you attend. It changes the institutional mix you are choosing from. Across all 228 online programs, accredited or not, 49 are for-profit. Narrow to the accredited ones and the count falls to 3, so accreditation is doing most of the filtering that a reader might assume delivery format does.

The remaining accredited online programs are 22 public universities and 11 private nonprofits. Institution control is on every row in the table below, so this is checkable rather than a claim to take on trust.

The 36 Accredited Online Programs

Ordered by the master's scoring model, which is described in full in the ranking methodology (version 1.0). Accreditation status is printed on each row because some of these programs carry probation.

The 36 CAHME-accredited online healthcare administration master's programs, with state, institution control, accreditation status and degrees conferred a year
# Institution Where Control Status Degrees a year Score
1 University of Phoenix-Arizona Phoenix, AZ Private for-profit CAHME-accredited 988 96.9
2 Purdue University Global West Lafayette, IN Public CAHME-accredited 222 89.9
3 Walden University Minneapolis, MN Private for-profit CAHME-accredited 126 87.4
4 George Washington University Washington, DC Private nonprofit CAHME-accredited 104 86.4
5 Florida International University Miami, FL Public CAHME-accredited 92 86
6 American Public University System Charles Town, WV Private for-profit CAHME-accredited 89 85.7
7 University of New Haven West Haven, CT Private nonprofit CAHME-accredited 78 85.3
8 George Mason University Fairfax, VA Public CAHME-accredited 78 85.3
9 Texas A&M University-College Station College Station, TX Public CAHME-accredited 70 84.6
10 Des Moines University-Osteopathic Medical Center West Des Moines, IA Private nonprofit CAHME-accredited 56 83.6
11 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Cincinnati, OH Public CAHME-accredited 53 83.6
12 Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA Public CAHME-accredited 52 83.2
13 Weber State University Ogden, UT Public CAHME-accredited 51 83.2
14 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA Public CAHME-accredited 40 82.2
15 University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC Public CAHME-accredited 37 81.8
16 University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO Public CAHME-accredited 31 81.1
17 Clarkson University Potsdam, NY Private nonprofit CAHME-accredited 31 81.1
18 Portland State University Portland, OR Public CAHME-accredited 22 79.4
19 Texas State University San Marcos, TX Public CAHME-accredited 18 78.7
20 University of Memphis Memphis, TN Public CAHME-accredited 18 78.7
21 Minnesota State University Moorhead Moorhead, MN Public CAHME-accredited 17 78.3
22 Austin Peay State University Clarksville, TN Public CAHME-accredited 16 78
23 Rush University Chicago, IL Private nonprofit CAHME-accredited 16 78
24 University of North Texas Health Science Center Fort Worth, TX Public CAHME-accredited 14 77.6
25 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Little Rock, AR Public CAHME-accredited 12 76.9
26 Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine Erie, PA Private nonprofit CAHME-accredited 12 76.9
27 Loma Linda University Loma Linda, CA Private nonprofit CAHME-accredited 11 76.6
28 Ferris State University Big Rapids, MI Public CAHME-accredited 11 76.6
29 University of Oklahoma-Health Sciences Center Oklahoma City, OK Public CAHME-accredited 11 76.6
30 Georgetown University Washington, DC Private nonprofit CAHME-accredited 11 76.6
31 Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ Public CAHME-accredited 10 76.2
32 Appalachian State University Boone, NC Public CAHME-accredited 9 75.5
33 Radford University Radford, VA Public CAHME-accredited 9 75.5
34 Robert Morris University Moon Township, PA Private nonprofit CAHME-accredited 7 74.5
35 AdventHealth University Orlando, FL Private nonprofit CAHME, on probation 43 70.5
36 Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA Private nonprofit CAHME, on probation 15 66

The Online Programs Are the Bigger Ones

The 36 accredited online programs confer 2,480 master's degrees a year between them. The 67 accredited on-campus programs confer 2,683. So a third of the accredited programs produce close to half of the accredited graduates.

Per program that is about 69 degrees a year online against 40 on campus. The accredited online MHA programs simply run larger cohorts, which is worth holding in mind when one of them quotes a class size or a faculty ratio: the median accredited online program is operating at a different scale from the median accredited residential one.

Where the 36 Are, by State

Online study makes the location of the campus mostly irrelevant to attendance, but it still decides in-state tuition, state authorisation and which state board a graduate deals with, so it is listed.

Sources for This List

Common Questions

Are online MHA programs CAHME-accredited?
36 of the 228 online master's programs in the federal data hold CAHME accreditation, which is 16%. On campus the figure is 67 of 186, or 36%. So the accreditation exists online and it is rarer there. Accreditation is granted to the program rather than to a delivery format, so an accredited online program carries the same standing as an accredited residential one.
How many online MHA programs are there?
The federal data records 228 online masters in healthcare administration. 36 of them are CAHME-accredited, at institutions in 24 states. The other 192 are real degrees from real universities without that particular accreditation.
Does an online MHA carry the same weight as an on-campus one?
CAHME accredits the program, not the classroom, and its standards do not have a separate online tier. The practical difference is in what accreditation unlocks: postgraduate administrative fellowships, the usual route into hospital leadership, frequently restrict applicants to graduates of accredited programs. An accredited online program satisfies that condition and an unaccredited campus one does not.
What do graduates earn?
Medical and health services managers earn a national median of $123,860, with the middle half between $94,700 and $166,100 and the top tenth above $224,340. That figure covers the whole occupation at every education level rather than master's graduates specifically, because the wage survey does not break out degrees. Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025, SOC 11-9111.

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