2025 Best Health Care Management Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

Ranked #66 in popularity, health care management is one of the most sought-after doctor's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for health care management students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 82 doctor's degrees in health care management to qualified students.

Jump to one of the following sections: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Health Care Management School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of health care management for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on health care management students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of health care management students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized health care management related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for health care management students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Health Care Management Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Health Care Management in the Southeast Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in health care management.

Top Southeast Region Schools for a Doctorate in Health Care Management

1

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

24 Annual Graduates

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a wonderful decision for individuals interested in a doctor's degree in health care management. UNC Chapel Hill is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Chapel Hill.More information about a doctorate in health care management from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2

Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

27 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Medical University of South Carolina if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in health care management. Located in the midsize city of Charleston, MUSC is a public university with a small student population.More information about a doctorate in health care management from Medical University of South Carolina

3

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

19 Annual Graduates

University of Alabama at Birmingham is a great decision for individuals pursuing a doctor's degree in health care management. Located in the midsize city of Birmingham, UAB is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in health care management from University of Alabama at Birmingham

Best Health Care Management Colleges by State

Explore the best health care management schools for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	217	3
North Carolina	190	17
Virginia	182	35
Mississippi	154	10
Louisiana	146	0
Alabama	139	10
South Carolina	135	30

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Health Care Management Related Rankings by Major

Health Care Management is one of 23 different types of Health & Medical Administrative Services programs to choose from.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Hospital & Health Care Facilities Administration/Management	27

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.