Health & Medical Administrative Services at Sam Houston State University

If you are interested in studying health and medical administrative services, you may want to check out the program at Sam Houston State University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

SHSU is located in Huntsville, Texas and has a total student population of 21,912.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Health & Medical Administrative Services section at the bottom of this page.

SHSU Health & Medical Administrative Services Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Health & Medical Administrative Services

Online Classes Are Available at SHSU

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? SHSU offers distance education options for health and medical administrative services at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

SHSU Health & Medical Administrative Services Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the health and medical administrative services progam at SHSU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The health and medical administrative services major at SHSU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Health & Medical Administrative Services. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Online Health/Medical Admin Services Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	15
Most Popular Health/Medical Admin Services Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	21
Most Popular Online Health/Medical Admin Services Trade Schools	43
Most Popular Health/Medical Admin Services Trade Schools	78
Most Focused Health/Medical Admin Services Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	139
Best Value Health/Medical Admin Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	146
Best Health/Medical Admin Services Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	194
Best Health/Medical Admin Services Trade Schools	360
	398
Best Value Health/Medical Admin Services Schools	658
Most Focused Health/Medical Admin Services Trade Schools	845
	1,369

Earnings of SHSU Health & Medical Administrative Services Graduates

The median salary of health and medical administrative services students who receive their bachelor's degree at SHSU is $31,604. This is less than $38,040, which is the national average of all health and medical administrative services majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Health & Medical Administrative Services Student Demographics at SHSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the health and medical administrative services majors at Sam Houston State University.

SHSU Health & Medical Administrative Services Bachelor’s Program

Of the 127 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Health & Medical Administrative Services from SHSU in 2020-2021, 9% were men and 91% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 6% more racial-ethnic minorities in its health and medical administrative services bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Sam Houston State University with a bachelor's in health and medical administrative services.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	24
Hispanic or Latino	36
White	56
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

SHSU also has a doctoral program available in health and medical administrative services. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within Health & Medical Administrative Services

If you plan to be a health and medical administrative services major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Sam Houston State University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Health Care Management	127

Related Majors

• Allied Health Professions
• Health Sciences & Services

Careers That Health & Medical Administrative Services Grads May Go Into

A degree in health and medical administrative services can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for TX, the home state for Sam Houston State University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	117,010	$59,580
Medical Secretaries	92,990	$34,150
Computer User Support Specialists	60,380	$52,250
Medical Assistants	59,930	$31,580
Medical and Health Services Managers	30,010	$105,450

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Bigguill under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.