Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Administration Preparing Tomorrow’s Leaders in Health Systems Management
120
Credit Hours
100% online, 8-week courses
Transfer in up to 50% of the degree total
Pursue Your Passion for Healthy Living with Liberty’s Bachelor’s Degree in Healthcare Administration
Liberty University is devoted to helping you pursue your passions with excellence. Our online Bachelor of Science (BS) in Healthcare Administration can help prepare you for careers in the healthcare management field. This healthcare admin program can give you the tools and resources to improve healthcare and work on making healthcare more accessible within communities.
Here at Liberty, we seek to emphasize overall growth, helping you succeed professionally. You can learn to handle challenges with strength and celebrate successes with gratitude, helping to ensure a rewarding educational experience.
As a graduate of our bachelor’s in health administration online program, you can be poised to champion initiatives that enhance healthcare quality, efficiency, and accessibility. You can emerge as a conscientious leader equipped with the acumen to formulate strategic plans, manage healthcare operations, and steer organizations toward success while upholding the highest standards of integrity and compassion.
What is Healthcare Administration?
Healthcare administrators plan, direct, and coordinate medical and health services for organizations and businesses. As a healthcare administrator, you manage the benefits of employees as well as bridge the gap between benefits and physicians. These needs require a broad background in business skills, medical facilities, medical records, business administration, and health insurance processes. That’s why our Bachelor of Science Healthcare Administration online program seeks to provide you with the necessary training and knowledge to confidently enter the field of healthcare administrator work.
Why Choose Liberty for Your Healthcare Administration Bachelor’s Degree?
We believe our healthcare administration degree program is a leader among health administration degrees. Your courses will be taught by professionals with real-world experience in clinical and leadership settings. Under their guidance, you can gain a foundational knowledge of legal issues in today’s healthcare business environment. As you dive into ethics and policies, you will also study political, cultural, and economic interactions.
Our online bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration stands out by offering opportunities to pursue internships. We highly recommend securing an internship while earning this degree, as it presents a chance to gain substantial, practical experience in healthcare management and administration. This not only enhances your professional foundation but also opens doors to valuable networking opportunities, setting the stage for a successful career in healthcare.
What Will You Study in Our Healthcare Administration Bachelor’s Degree?
Our bachelor’s in healthcare management degree online will provide you with the training needed to tackle challenges in the field. You will study what makes healthcare organizations effective, learn strategic planning methods, and master numerous proven business management techniques. You will also explore administrative and financial principles necessary for making informed decisions in the health administration field.
By completing our online healthcare administration degree, you can better understand healthcare policy and essential business functions. Our program can prepare you for success through a strong foundation in business and management for a variety of healthcare careers.
Through our program, you can become equipped to pursue health benefits roles in corporate business, nonprofits, public service organizations, and many other fields.
Healthcare administrators need to be prepared for many important responsibilities, including:
- Assessing and improving the delivery of healthcare services
- Establishing and maintaining records systems for staff and clients
- Managing budgets and saving costs without compromising quality
- Meeting state and federal law compliance requirements
- Recruiting, training, and managing healthcare support employees
- Working with healthcare facilities to set and accomplish departmental goals
Through Liberty’s health administration degree online program, you will study under professors who have real-world experience in hospital administration, clinical settings, outpatient facilities, and nearly every specialized field of health administration. You can learn from their vast years of experience, combined with your knowledge, to grow in practice and leadership.
Potential Career Opportunities
- Healthcare financial management roles
- Higher education health benefits coordinator
- Human resources management roles
- Long-term care center administrator
- Medical staff relations director
- Physician’s office manager
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Degree Information
- This program falls under the School of Business.
- Download and explore the program Degree Completion Plan.
- View the Undergraduate Course Guides (login required).
- An internship is strongly recommended.
Degree Completion Plan (PDF)
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Tuition & Aid
Your success is our success, which is why we are committed to providing quality academics at an affordable tuition rate. While other colleges are increasing their tuition, we have frozen tuition rates for the majority of our undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs for the past 9 years – and counting.
To continue our mission of providing affordable education, electronic textbooks are provided for all undergraduate courses at no cost to you. As a full-time student, this could save you an estimated $800-2,000 per year on textbooks!
Undergraduate Full Time | $390/Credit |
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Undergraduate Part Time | $455/Credit |
Military Undergraduate | $250/Credit |
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Admission Information for Healthcare Administration
Admission Requirements
- Apply online or over the phone with an admissions counselor by calling (800) 424-9595.
- A non-refundable, non-transferable $50 application fee will be posted on the current application upon enrollment (waived for qualifying service members, veterans, and military spouses – documentation verifying military status is required).
- Send official high school transcripts or official GED test scores.*
- Students may be allowed to enroll in up to 12 credit hours with Liberty with the submission of our High School Self-Certification Form (login required – you will first need to claim your Liberty Account).
- Send official college transcripts (mailed as sealed, unopened copies or sent via a direct electronic transcript system).
- Unofficial transcripts can be used for acceptance purposes with the submission of a Transcript Request Form.
- Applicants whose native language is other than English must submit official scores for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or an approved alternative assessment. For information on alternative assessments or TOEFL waivers, please call Admissions or view the official International Admissions policy.
*Official high school transcript requirement may be waived with college transcripts from an accredited college/university showing at least 12 earned credit hours with an acceptable GPA.
Note: A 2.0 or above cumulative GPA is required for admission in good standing.
Transcript Policies
High School Transcript Policy
Applicants may submit a High School Self-Certification Form in lieu of a final official high school transcript in order to enroll in up to 12 credit hours at Liberty University.
- Applicants may submit a college transcript showing 12 or more credits from an accredited institution and a High School Self-Certification Form in lieu of high school transcripts.
Students must submit official high school transcripts, or official college transcripts showing at least 12 credit hours earned with an acceptable grade point average (GPA) from an accredited institution, in order to register for additional courses.
The official high school transcript, GED requirement, and High School Self-Certification Form can be waived if the applicant has earned an associate degree or higher.
Final transcripts must reflect all coursework and final grades received for grades 9-12, a graduation date, and an overall GPA. (Mailed transcripts must be in a sealed and unopened envelope.)
Unofficial College Transcript Policy
Unofficial transcripts combined with a Transcript Request Form can be used for admission. Official transcripts are required within 60 days of the admissions decision or before non-attendance drops for the first set of matriculated classes, whichever comes first, and will prevent enrollment into future terms until all official transcripts have been received.
Before sending unofficial college transcripts, please make sure they include the following:
- Your previous school’s name or logo printed on the document
- Cumulative GPA
- A list of completed courses and earned credit broken down by semester
- Degree and date conferred (if applicable)
Official College Transcript Policy
An acceptable official college transcript is one that has been issued directly from the institution and is in a sealed envelope. If you have one in your possession, it must meet the same requirements. If your previous institution offers electronic official transcript processing, they can send the document directly to luoverify@liberty.edu.
If the student uses unofficial transcripts with a Transcript Request Form to gain acceptance, all official transcripts must be received within 60 days of the admissions decision or before non-attendance drops for the first set of matriculated classes, whichever comes first. Failure to send all official transcripts within the 60-day period will prevent enrollment into future terms until all official transcripts have been received.
Military Transfers
If you have military-only transfer credits (completed basic training and enlistment), you must request an official military transcript. Please go to the Military Transfer Credit webpage to request your military transcript.
International Applicants
If you are an international applicant, you may be required to have your international transcripts reviewed. Information regarding the transcript evaluation process for international students can be found by visiting NACES.
Applicants whose native language is other than English must submit official scores for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or an approved alternative assessment. For information on alternative assessments or TOEFL waivers, please call Admissions or view the official International Admissions policy.
Admissions Office Contact Information
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Lynchburg, VA 24515
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Military
Liberty University is dedicated to providing world-class educational experiences to military students across the globe.
Who May Qualify?
- Active Duty
- Reserve/National Guard
- Veterans/Retirees
- Spouses of Service Members and Veterans/Retirees
- Current Department of Defense Employees
Available Benefits:
- Tuition discounts – $250 per credit hour for undergraduate courses
- Additional discount for veterans who service in a civilian capacity as a First Responder (less than $565 per course)*
- 8-week courses, 8 different start dates each year, and no set login times (may exclude certain courses such as practicums, internships, or field experiences)
- Potential college credit for military training
*Not applicable to certificates.
Frequently Asked Questions
What professional skills will I gain from our healthcare administration Online bachelor’s degree?
Earning a healthcare management degree online from Liberty allows you to gain many marketable skills, such as:
- Budget-setting and cost-saving techniques
- Business communication for any setting
- Leadership and conflict resolution techniques
- Management skills for large-scale projects
- Marketing and public relations knowledge
Our healthcare degree online format is designed to help you pursue your passion. You want more than a career — you want to make an impact. With our degree in health administration, you can learn how to be a successful leader and manager in the field.
What can you do with a bachelor’s healthcare administration degree?
Bachelor’s degrees in healthcare administration are designed to provide a mix of practical business skills and healthcare expertise.
With a healthcare administration degree, you may find yourself managing a network of employees at a hospital, making budget or policy decisions for a healthcare facility, or even providing procurement-based needs to a medical center.
Liberty’s BS in Healthcare Management provides this balance of general business content and specialized healthcare industry studies while helping you merge both into a useful whole. Having this variety of content can help you handle any health management challenges in the field.
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