2025 Best Health & Medical Administrative Services Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in health & medical administrative services, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #61 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of health & medical administrative services. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 109 doctor's degrees in health & medical administrative services during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Health & Medical Administrative Services School for Your Doctor's Degree

The health & medical administrative services doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality health & medical administrative services program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

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.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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 & medical administrative services students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of health & medical administrative services 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.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for health & medical administrative services to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized health & medical administrative services related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for health & medical administrative services 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 & Medical Administrative Services Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Health & Medical Administrative Services in the Southeast Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in health & medical administrative services.

Top Southeast Region Schools for a Doctorate in Health & Medical Administrative Services

1

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

24 Annual Graduates

$129,472 Median Starting Salary

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a good choice for students pursuing a doctor's degree in health & medical administrative services. UNC Chapel Hill is a very large public university located in the small city of Chapel Hill.

Health & Medical Administrative Services doctor's degree recipients from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill earn a boost of about $11,103 over the typical earnings of health & medical administrative services graduates.

More information about a doctorate in health & medical administrative services from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2

Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC

27 Annual Graduates

$107,267 Median Starting Salary

Medical University of South Carolina is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in health & medical administrative services. Located in the midsize city of Charleston, MUSC is a public university with a small student population.

Students who graduate with their doctorate from the health & medical administrative services program state that they receive average early career earnings of $107,267.

More information about a doctorate in health & medical administrative services from Medical University of South Carolina

3

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

19 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in health & medical administrative services has to look into University of Alabama at Birmingham. Located in the medium-sized city of Birmingham, UAB is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in health & medical administrative services from University of Alabama at Birmingham

Best Health & Medical Administrative Services Colleges by State

Explore the best health & medical administrative services colleges for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	138	3
Virginia	127	35
North Carolina	115	17
Mississippi	113	10
Louisiana	103	0
Alabama	98	10
South Carolina	91	30

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Health & Medical Administrative Services Related Rankings by Major

One of 34 majors within the Health Professions area of study, Health & Medical Administrative Services has other similar majors worth exploring.

Health & Medical Administrative Services Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Health Care Management	82
Hospital & Health Care Facilities Administration/Management	27

Majors Similar to Health & Medical Administrative Services

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Medicine	7,234
Nursing	3,832
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	3,638
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	3,614
Dentistry	1,241
Chiropractic	568
Allied Health Professions	380
Optometry	355
Public Health	238
Communication Sciences	218

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.