Healthcare administration?

What types of jobs can I get with a Masters Degree in a Healthcare Administration? And is it worth it?

• I have my heart set on healthcare administration. You can either get your associates or masters in it and I like to aim high and go with the best so I am choosing to go for my ...show more

• Answer:

  The job of a health care administrator, such as for a hospital or nursing home, usually requires a master's degree. General career info: http://www.bls.gov/ooh and can search "medical and health services managers," "administrative services managers" or such. With regard to schooling, please do *avoid* those private For-profit schools such as devry, ITT tech, strayer, U of P, capella, Everest, grand canyon, penn foster, Kaplan, argosy, walden, keiser, westwood, ashworth, concorde career and others. Their course credits usually do NOT transfer to other schools, even if the for-profit school is regionally accredited as opposed to only nationally accredited. Please instead consider the more affordable (and usually more reputable) *community college* and/or the *state-public university* as long as the program is accredited within the industry. Just an fyi that "American public university" is a for-profit school. For U.S. colleges: http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ