Healthcare Administration Program Highlights

Develop your skills and further your career with a healthcare administration bachelor’s degree.

Baker College’s healthcare administration program enables you to develop the broad range of knowledge and critical thinking skills you need to effectively manage the delivery, quality and costs of healthcare services. Our healthcare curriculum is developed with the input of an advisory board of healthcare professionals to ensure it addresses the demands of the real world.

When you graduate, you will have the training, knowledge and experience to begin a successful healthcare career.
The health administration degree at Baker College combines general education and healthcare courses with a healthcare management related externship.

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At a glance

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Learn Your Way

Healthcare Administration classes are taught exclusively through Baker Online. Plus, general education and prerequisite courses are typically available through Baker Online, Online Live, and on all campuses throughout Michigan.

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Why Earn a Healthcare Administration Degree?

Healthcare administrators plan, direct and coordinate medical and health services in hospitals, private and public clinics, agencies and other healthcare organizations. Some healthcare management administrators specialize in one area, such as finance or marketing, but others have broader responsibilities that can range from managing people and services to developing procedures to improve the quality of health services.

Healthcare Admin Curriculum

The Baker College healthcare administrator degree is a four-year, Higher Learning Commission-accredited program consisting of 120 credit hours (60 hours of healthcare administration and 27 hours of general education requirements). Our curriculum includes 33 hours of required courses, human anatomy and physiology and a 121-hour work experience.

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Extended Reality Learning

Take your learning to a whole new level.

The College of Health Science is proud to offer courses that include Extended Reality (XR) learning. These experiences provide immersive, hands-on learning that will prepare you for a successful healthcare career.

In Their Words

“The school was low-cost, flexible with my personal and work schedule, and accepted my previously earned credits. The functionality of the online structure was easy to follow, resources were there, and the staff was great.”

Accreditation

The Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Administration (BHCA) Program at Baker College is an Associate Undergraduate member of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA). AUPHA sets standards for admission to the Association recognizing academic units in the US offering a degree at the bachelor’s level in healthcare management in a regionally accredited institution. AUPHA is also an international consortium of graduate and undergraduate health administration programs and practitioners engaged in the development of health management education.

This page was last revised on May 15, 2025.

Bachelor of Science

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