Bachelor’s degree · earnings 4 years after completing
Highest-Paying Colleges for Health Administration (Bachelor's)
Graduates who complete a bachelor's degree in Health Administration earn a median of $58,716 four years after finishing, and the middle half earn between $41,903 and $80,437. We rank the 161 U.S. colleges whose Health Administration programs have at least 25 graduates in the Scorecard earnings sample, 16,517 graduates in all. That puts Health Administration at #71 of 131 bachelor's degree fields we rank by national median earnings.
Barry University, in Florida, leads at $89,971, 49% above the median ranked school ($60,328). The gap between schools is moderate: the middle half of ranked schools earn between $54,265 and $68,386, and the lowest earns $38,591. 89 of the 161 ranked schools (55%) match or beat the national median.
The top 20 mix sectors: 6 public, 13 private nonprofit and 1 for-profit. The top 20 are spread across 14 states, with Illinois the most common (2).
The top 20 schools cost more than most: a median net price of $23,391 a year, against $17,043 across all 161 ranked schools. Their graduates who borrowed carry a median of $24,300 in federal loans, about 30% of one year of earnings. Measured against a typical high-school graduate in the same state, the median top-20 school recovers its net cost in about 2.2 years.
Showing the top 50 of 161 ranked schools. Select a column heading to re-sort the table. † = fewer than 40 graduates in the earnings sample.
| 1 | Barry University Miami, FL Private nonprofit · 4-year | $89,971 | 27 † | $31,680 | $22,613 | 1.6 |
| 2 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA Public · 4-year | $83,516 | 25 † | $22,662 | $30,434 | 2.6 |
| 3 | Western Governors University Salt Lake City, UT Private nonprofit · 4-year | $82,644 | 124 | $14,909 | $12,548 | 1.1 |
| 4 | Ottawa University-Ottawa Ottawa, KS Private nonprofit · 4-year | $82,317 | 53 | $20,738 | $27,963 | 2.4 |
| 5 | Stonehill College Easton, MA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $82,254 | 25 † | $25,500 | $33,016 | 3.2 |
| 6 | Loyola University Chicago Chicago, IL Private nonprofit · 4-year | $82,040 | 54 | $21,750 | $36,079 | 3.1 |
| 7 | University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Eau Claire, WI Public · 4-year | $80,564 | 56 | $21,850 | $16,550 | 1.5 |
| 8 | Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH Public · 4-year | $80,315 | 29 † | $24,995 | $17,339 | 1.6 |
| 9 | Northeastern University Boston, MA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $80,233 | 90 | $26,500 | $30,915 | 3.2 |
| 10 | Creighton University Omaha, NE Private nonprofit · 4-year | $79,977 | 31 † | $24,427 | $31,568 | 2.9 |
| 11 | University of St Francis Joliet, IL Private nonprofit · 4-year | $79,421 | 59 | $20,827 | $13,006 | 1.2 |
| 12 | Stephens College Columbia, MO Private nonprofit · 4-year | $79,407 | 51 | $30,808 | $23,459 | 2.1 |
| 13 | University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Cincinnati, OH Public · 4-year | $77,549 | 126 | $25,000 | $25,648 | 2.5 |
| 14 | James Madison University Harrisonburg, VA Public · 4-year | $77,393 | 87 | $19,500 | $23,322 | 2.3 |
| 15 | University of Scranton Scranton, PA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $76,932 | 27 † | $27,000 | $32,568 | 3.2 |
| 16 | Pacific University Forest Grove, OR Private nonprofit · 4-year | $76,880 | 27 † | — | $35,273 | 3.5 |
| 17 | CUNY New York City College of Technology Brooklyn, NY Public · 4-year | $76,730 | 99 | $13,800 | $5,127 | 0.5 |
| 18 | Capella University Minneapolis, MN For-profit · 4-year | $76,334 | 209 | $27,657 | $17,956 | 1.9 |
| 19 | St. Joseph's University-New York Brooklyn, NY Private nonprofit · 4-year | $76,238 | 62 | $24,300 | $19,035 | 1.9 |
| 20 | Concordia University-Saint Paul Saint Paul, MN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $75,912 | 43 | $22,011 | $18,462 | 1.9 |
| 21 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA Public · 4-year | $75,396 | 209 | $25,000 | $32,875 | 3.4 |
| 22 | University of Minnesota-Crookston Crookston, MN Public · 4-year | $75,308 | 52 | $26,610 | $12,212 | 1.3 |
| 23 | University of New Hampshire-Main Campus Durham, NH Public · 4-year | $75,291 | 61 | $27,000 | $23,805 | 2.9 |
| 24 | Auburn University Auburn, AL Public · 4-year | $74,392 | 31 † | $24,000 | $24,323 | 2.3 |
| 25 | Colorado State University Global Denver, CO Public · 4-year | $74,350 | 280 | $29,692 | $16,510 | 2.0 |
| 26 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA Public · 4-year | $73,484 | 43 | $13,787 | $14,091 | 1.7 |
| 27 | Concordia University-Chicago River Forest, IL Private nonprofit · 4-year | $73,256 | 55 | $18,443 | $18,436 | 2.0 |
| 28 | Providence College Providence, RI Private nonprofit · 4-year | $73,165 | 64 | $27,000 | $48,523 | 5.9 |
| 29 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN Public · 4-year | $72,862 | 79 | $19,400 | $16,778 | 1.9 |
| 30 | Bellevue College Bellevue, WA Public · 4-year | $72,695 | 25 † | — | $11,430 | 1.4 |
| 31 | Charter Oak State College New Britain, CT Public · 4-year | $72,446 | 60 | $21,958 | $15,815 | 1.8 |
| 32 | Weber State University Ogden, UT Public · 4-year | $71,846 | 65 | $24,668 | $10,258 | 1.2 |
| 33 | Illinois State University Normal, IL Public · 4-year | $71,707 | 25 † | $20,084 | $19,398 | 2.2 |
| 34 | The College of Saint Scholastica Duluth, MN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $71,540 | 58 | $26,427 | $27,846 | 3.3 |
| 35 | Misericordia University Dallas, PA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $71,314 | 32 † | $27,000 | $37,485 | 4.3 |
| 36 | University of Kentucky Lexington, KY Public · 4-year | $70,942 | 43 | $23,250 | $18,851 | 2.1 |
| 37 | Saint Louis University Saint Louis, MO Private nonprofit · 4-year | $70,202 | 45 | $26,000 | $24,398 | 2.8 |
| 38 | University of Maryland Global Campus Adelphi, MD Public · 4-year | $70,119 | 196 | $24,000 | $22,063 | 2.7 |
| 39 | Lindenwood University Saint Charles, MO Private nonprofit · 4-year | $69,956 | 31 † | $29,250 | $19,638 | 2.2 |
| 40 | Howard University Washington, DC Private nonprofit · 4-year | $68,877 | 25 † | $27,000 | $50,539 | 7.0 |
| 41 | University of Minnesota-Duluth Duluth, MN Public · 4-year | $68,386 | 61 | $20,715 | $18,743 | 2.5 |
| 42 | Towson University Towson, MD Public · 4-year | $68,077 | 101 | $23,500 | $17,413 | 2.3 |
| 43 | East Carolina University Greenville, NC Public · 4-year | $67,732 | 55 | $22,825 | $15,739 | 1.9 |
| 44 | Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, MI Public · 4-year | $67,117 | 66 | $26,000 | $17,597 | 2.2 |
| 45 | Upper Iowa University Fayette, IA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $66,931 | 50 | $28,939 | $20,942 | 2.8 |
| 46 | Fresno Pacific University Fresno, CA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $66,778 | 28 † | $24,912 | $13,630 | 1.8 |
| 47 | University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, IL Public · 4-year | $66,694 | 66 | $19,466 | $10,974 | 1.4 |
| 48 | Carroll University Waukesha, WI Private nonprofit · 4-year | $66,689 | 46 | $26,500 | $15,193 | 2.1 |
| 49 | University of Baltimore Baltimore, MD Public · 4-year | $66,614 | 49 | $23,299 | $13,868 | 1.9 |
| 50 | Washburn University Topeka, KS Public · 4-year | $66,325 | 67 | $21,725 | $15,280 | 1.9 |
How this ranking is built
A school appears here only if it meets every condition below.
- Which programs count
- Main campuses only, one entry per institution. Scorecard reports program outcomes for the whole six-digit federal ID (OPEID6), so branch campuses share their parent’s numbers and are not listed twice.
- Only bachelor's degree programs in Health Administration (CIP 5107, the four-digit code Scorecard uses to group related programs).
- At least 25 graduates in the earnings sample. Smaller samples are left out because their medians swing too much and the counts carry a little privacy noise.
- A major gets a page only when at least 20 schools qualify. This one has 161.
- Ranked by median earnings 4 years after completing, highest first. Ties go to the larger sample, then to the school name.
- Schools missing earnings or a sample size are left out rather than estimated.
- What the numbers mean
- Earnings: median annual earnings of graduates four years after completing. The cohort completed in academic years 2017-18 and 2018-19 and was measured in calendar years 2022 and 2023, in 2024 dollars.
- Who is counted: graduates who received federal student aid (Title IV grants or loans), and only those who were working and not enrolled in more school that year. Graduates without federal aid, those who went on to further study and those with no earnings are not in the median.
- Scorecard adds privacy noise to counts and medians and hides values it cannot protect, so a gap of a few percent between two schools is not meaningful.
- Graduates: the number of graduates in that earnings sample. A † marks fewer than 40, where the figure is less precise.
- Debt: median federal loan debt (Stafford and Grad PLUS loans disbursed at that school) of graduates who borrowed, from the 2018-19 and 2019-20 completers. Parent PLUS and private loans are not included.
- Net price: average yearly cost after grants and scholarships for the whole institution, not this major, academic year 2023-24.
- Payback: 4 years of net price divided by how much these earnings exceed a high-school graduate’s in the school’s state. Shown only when that gap is at least $2,000, the same formula as the rest of the site.
- Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard field-of-study data, June 2026 release.
Top states for Health Administration earnings
Median of the school medians for states with at least 3 ranked schools. The best school in each state is shown.
| State | Median earnings | Ranked schools | Top school |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | $80,233 | 3 | Stonehill College |
| Washington | $72,695 | 3 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus |
| Minnesota | $72,201 | 8 | Capella University |
| Maryland | $67,346 | 4 | University of Maryland Global Campus |
| Missouri | $67,152 | 6 | Stephens College |
| Illinois | $66,694 | 9 | Loyola University Chicago |
| Kansas | $66,325 | 3 | Ottawa University-Ottawa |
| Wisconsin | $66,045 | 4 | University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire |
| Pennsylvania | $65,999 | 9 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus |
| New Hampshire | $63,292 | 3 | University of New Hampshire-Main Campus |
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