Category — Rankings

It’s the New Year and time for all sorts of college rankings. For those of you looking to advance your career in a more administrative direction, a masters degree in healthcare administration might be the ticket. There are plenty of high quality online opportunities for distance education when pursuing an MHA. Many people pursue their MHA even while working full time. An online program from a reputable school is the best way for this to happen, and administrative degrees are very well suited to the online format.

Below is a list of the top online MHA programs for 2012 from the website Top Masters in Healthcare if you are considering the online route. Each of these colleges offers a solid, marketable Masters in Healthcare Administration degree that will give you the best opportunity for an administrative career within health.

The 5 Best Online MHA Programs for 2012

#1 University of North Carolina
#2 George Washington University
#3 St. Joseph’s University
#4 Ohio University
#5 Grand Canyon University

For the rest of the top 10, visit the source by clicking here. The original ranking provides additional information about each school and some justification for why it was selected. Any of the schools on this list come highly recommended.

As it is ranking season, we will continue to post college rankings that are relevant to the nursing and healthcare fields as these have been the most popular and widely read resources from our publication.

If you’re looking to get your Master’s degree in nursing and want to do so online, a website called Best Nursing Masters recently published their 2012 rankings for online masters programs in nursing. Leading the pack is Ball State University’s Online Master’s in Nursing.

Getting an advanced graduate degree is an important and costly decision and while college rankings aren’t a precise science, we do believe that they serve as a tool to help students make wise choices. As always, we recommend consulting multiple ranking sources in order to derive a consensus in your mind as to which program is the best fit for you.

Here are the 10 best online programs for a masters in nursing according to the site Best Nursing Masters.

#1 – Ball State University Online Master’s in Nursing
#2 – Benedictine University Masters in Nursing
#3 – Drexel University Online Masters in Nursing
#4 – Georgetown University Online Master of Science in Nursing
#5 – Gonzaga University Online Master of Science in Nursing
#6 – Jacksonville University Online Master of Science in Nursing
#7 – Johns Hopkins Online Master of Science in Nursing
#8 – Loyola University Master’s in Nursing
#9 – Saint Xavier Online Master’s in Nursing
#10 – University of Cincinnati Online MS in Nursing

Many people want to go to the best school that they can get accepted into. If that sounds like you, then you’re no doubt a huge fan of college rankings. Choosing the best program can often lead to an easier time getting a job after your education (although as we all know, when it comes to nursing, the demand is so high that it’s hard NOT to get a job!)

Today Zen College Life made us aware of their 2010 rankings of the 10 best nursing schools. If you are thinking about attending nursing school and want to go to the best school possible, consider applying to several off this list.

Overall, we like the rankings that Zen College Life put together and congratulate them on having built a solid resource for prospective nursing students. Let us know your thoughts. It’s hard NOT to leave a good school out when you are only listing ten.