Health & Medical Administrative Services at Columbia Southern University

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

Columbia Southern University is located in Orange Beach, Alabama and has a total student population of 18,533. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 192 students received a bachelor's degree in health and medical administrative services from Columbia Southern University.

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.

Columbia Southern University Health & Medical Administrative Services Degrees Available

• Associate’s Degree in Health & Medical Administrative Services
• Bachelor’s Degree in Health & Medical Administrative Services

Online Classes Are Available at Columbia Southern University

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

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

• Associate’s Degree
• Bachelor’s Degree

Columbia Southern University Health & Medical Administrative Services Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The health and medical administrative services major at Columbia Southern University 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
Best Value Health/Medical Admin Services Graduate Certificate Schools	1
Best Value Health/Medical Admin Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	2
Most Popular Online Health/Medical Admin Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	12
Most Popular Health/Medical Admin Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	16
	19
Most Popular Online Health/Medical Admin Services Graduate Certificate Schools	20
Most Popular Online Health/Medical Admin Services Schools	22
Most Popular Online Health/Medical Admin Services Associate Degree Schools	24
Best Value Health/Medical Admin Services Schools	27
Best Value Health/Medical Admin Services Associate Degree Schools	36
Most Popular Health/Medical Admin Services Associate Degree Schools	38
Most Popular Health/Medical Admin Services Schools	41
Most Popular Health/Medical Admin Services Graduate Certificate Schools	45
	64
Best Health/Medical Admin Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	65
Most Focused Health/Medical Admin Services Graduate Certificate Schools	70
Best Health/Medical Admin Services Graduate Certificate Schools	70
Best Health/Medical Admin Services Associate Degree Schools	108
Most Focused Health/Medical Admin Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	116
	168
Best Health/Medical Admin Services Schools	185
	297
Most Focused Health/Medical Admin Services Associate Degree Schools	429
Most Focused Health/Medical Admin Services Schools	734

How Much Do Health & Medical Administrative Services Graduates from Columbia Southern University Make?

The median salary of health and medical administrative services students who receive their bachelor's degree at Columbia Southern University is $46,392. This is 22% higher than $38,040, which is the national average for all health and medical administrative services bachelor's degree recipients.

Health & Medical Administrative Services Student Demographics at Columbia Southern University

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

Columbia Southern University Health & Medical Administrative Services Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 6% of health and medical administrative services associate's degrees went to men and 94% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Columbia Southern University with a associate's in health and medical administrative services.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	17
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	16
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	13

Columbia Southern University Health & Medical Administrative Services Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 192 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in health and medical administrative services from Columbia Southern University. About 16% were men and 84% were women. The typical health and medical administrative services bachelor's degree program is made up of only 13% men. So male students are more repesented at Columbia Southern University since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	48
Hispanic or Latino	10
White	70
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	59

Columbia Southern University 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 Columbia Southern University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Health Care Management	199
Medical Insurance Coding Specialist/Coder	47

Related Majors

• Allied Health Professions
• Mental & Social Health Services
• Public Health

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 AL, the home state for Columbia Southern University.

Occupation	Jobs in AL	Average Salary in AL
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	19,240	$54,030
Medical Assistants	9,180	$28,460
Computer Programmers	7,750	$87,340
Medical Secretaries	6,510	$34,050
Computer User Support Specialists	5,920	$49,120

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.