Affordable online healthcare administration bachelor’s degrees

Fee units, residency eligibility, and placement conditions come from each school’s published terms:

California Coast University: Credits are semester credits. The degree is 126 semester units: 42 courses of 3 units each, and you can start any time. All courses are self-paced and 100% online. Tuition is $170 per unit of credit for bachelor's courses, one rate for every student. The tuition page prints no year; it says your rate is locked in when you enroll. Every course uses one assigned textbook, rented from the university at $35 per book. The fee table's other charges, including the $75 registration fee, apply only in specific situations. A 10% tuition discount is published for military, veterans, law enforcement, firefighters, government employees, CCU graduates and corporate partner employees; it is not applied to the rate here. No fee schedule itemizes every required charge, so the fee total is partial. Ask the school for its fee list.

Trine University: Credits are semester credits. The degree is 120 hours: 42 hours of general education and 78 hours of major courses, all online. TrineOnline undergraduate tuition is $299 per credit hour, one rate for every state. Active-duty military tuition assistance is a separate $250 rate. The school allows transfer of up to 90 credit hours toward a bachelor's degree; a ceiling is not a guarantee your credits are accepted. No fee schedule for this online rate was published, so the fee total is unknown, not zero. Ask the school for its fee list. More than 200 courses include free textbooks.

Southeast Missouri State University: Credits are semester credits. The online Bachelor's in Healthcare Administration is a BSBA delivered through SEMO Online. It requires at least 120 credit hours, including general education and at least 24 hours of healthcare administration courses, with an optional internship. The college is AACSB- and NIBS-accredited. For 2026–2027, SEMO charges undergraduate tuition of $305.00 and a general fee of $47.00 per credit hour for domestic and online students. Program fees of $40.00 per credit apply only to BSBA core courses, not every credit in the degree, so they are not part of the per-credit rate shown here. Other charges: a $150 new-student enrollment fee ($100 for transfer students), textbook rental at $39.62 per course where available, a $30 installment payment plan fee, and a $647.00 per-credit international rate. Program fees and rates change with the university's published schedules.

Charter Oak State College: Credits are semester credits. The degree needs 120 credits, including 42 credits of healthcare administration major courses. It is 100% online with six start dates a year. For 2026-2027, tuition is $329 per credit for all students, plus an $18.75 per credit course materials fee. The school charges the same rate no matter where you live. A $230 student services fee and a $75 technology fee are billed each semester, not per credit, so ask how many terms your plan takes to count them. Conditional discounts are published, including a tuition match for Connecticut community college students, and credit for prior learning is available; neither is applied to the rate here. The per-semester fees are not in the per-credit figure, so the fee total is partial.

Louisiana State University of Alexandria: Credits are semester credits. The degree is 120 credit hours: 39 general education hours and 81 major hours, including a 14-hour elective block. The rate is $353 per credit hour with no out-of-state fees, and fully online programs charge the same flat rate regardless of residence. Transfer credits may apply for up to 75% of degree requirements, which is 90 credits of the 120-credit degree. LSUA labels $42,360 as total cost with fees, but warns that course-specific proctoring and book fees may vary. Fees LSUA does not itemize are unknown, so ask the school for its fee list. This is a nonclinical health administration concentration inside a health professions degree, not a nursing or clinical-licensure program. Job-outlook figures on the page are BLS projections quoted by the program.

Southern New Hampshire University: Credits are semester credits. The 2026–2027 rate is $354 per credit, or $1,062 for a 3-credit course, and the degree is 40 courses in 8-week terms. The school publishes a cost of $42,480 for the 120-credit degree. SNHU's transfer examples go up to 90 prior-learning credits; ask how many of yours it will accept. There is no undergraduate online application fee. You pay a $100 fee when you petition to graduate. Course materials cost varies by course, and tuition is reviewed annually. The school does not list every possible required charge, so ask for its fee list. A reduced active-duty military rate of $250 per credit is available. This is a health administration degree, not a clinical one, and no licensure eligibility is claimed for it.

King University: Credits are semester credits. The degree is 124 semester hours: 38 general education, 48 major and 38 elective hours. It is online, one course at a time, and can be finished in as little as 16 months. The online rate is $350 per semester hour for this program, one rate for every state. Active military and tuition-assistance students have a separate $250 rate. A $100 online technology fee is charged per course, and the university estimates books at $200 per course. Neither is included in the per-hour rate. A $125 one-time graduation fee applies. Ask how many courses the degree needs so you can count the technology fee and books.

University of Louisiana at Lafayette: Credits are semester credits. The degree is 120 credit hours, 100% online in eight-week and 16-week courses. The last semester includes an internship with a health care organization in your area. Online undergraduate tuition is a flat $380 per credit, the same in every state with no out-of-state fees. The $30 per-credit distance-learning fee is already included in that rate. Course or lab fees are extra and not itemized, and some courses require a paid proctoring service for exams. Ask the school for its fee list.

Texas Woman's University: Credits are semester credits. The BBA in Health Care Administration is 120 total semester credit hours, with 51 in the major. TWU's program page lists 33 hours of business core courses, 30 hours in the concentration and 15 additional hours of other business requirements. TWU lists BBA-HCA classes as face-to-face, online and hybrid on the Denton campus, so confirm with the department that an all-online course plan is available before you apply. For Fall 2026 through Summer 2027, Texas residents pay $238 per credit hour in tuition and nonresidents $666, plus an $81 per-credit University Services Fee. The course-level Program Fee ($8 for lower- and $15 for upper-level courses), the $20 per-credit College of Business and HCA course surcharge and the $35.71 Student Services Fee (capped at $250 a semester) vary by course level or term. Fitness and recreation ($80), international education ($3), medical services ($51) and student center ($150) fees are billed each semester, not per credit Ask TWU for the full fee list.

Sam Houston State University: Credits are semester credits. The degree is 120 semester hours and is offered online as well as on the Huntsville campus. No minor is required. For Fall 2026/Spring 2027, Texas residents pay $244 per credit hour and other students $672. Online courses add a $101 distance-learning fee per credit, and per-credit fees include $80 institutional services and $17.60 student service. Three flat fees are billed each semester, not per credit: $100 student center, $75 health center and $100 recreational sports. An athletic fee of $20 per credit also applies in fall and spring. Students who are fully online and live more than 60 miles from campus may get waivers of the recreational sports and student center fees; confirm with the university. Books are optional through a bundle at $24.75 per credit hour. The per-semester and athletic fees are not in the per-credit figure, so the fee total is partial. The per-credit fee above counts the $80 institutional services, $20 athletic and $101 distance-learning fees. The $17.60-per-credit student service fee is capped each semester, so it is left out of that figure.