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Online Healthcare Courses

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Build Essential Leadership Skills for Healthcare Careers

Whether you’d like to advance in healthcare administration, health services administration, public health or nursing, Adelphi University has a healthcare degree or certificate that can help. You’ll learn from experienced instructors in small classes designed for individualized attention. Most courses are offered fully online and asynchronously (excluding clinical, if applicable), which gives you ultimate flexibility when it comes to the times and places you study.

Explore Our Industry-Leading Healthcare Degrees and Certificates

Discover which Adelphi University healthcare program is right for you.

Note: Time to completion can vary depending on transfer credits and full-time versus part-time study.

  • Modality: Online
  • Credit Hours: 120
  • Duration: 4 Years

This fully online program helps you complete your degree and reach today’s top leadership and management roles in healthcare.

  • Modality: Online
  • Credit Hours: 45
  • Duration: 2-3 Years

Advance your public health career in as little as two years. Prepare to improve public health conditions within regional and global communities.

  • Modality: Online
  • Credit Hours: 36
  • Duration: 12-24 Months

Develop expertise in health services administration, including marketing management, healthcare policy, healthcare and hospital finance and more.

  • Modality: Online with Clinical
  • Credit Hours: 45
  • Duration: 28 Months

New York licensed RNs can become advanced practitioners and qualify for the New York State Adult Health Nurse Practitioner licensure exam.

  • Modality: Online with Clinical
  • Credit Hours: 34
  • Duration: 6 Semesters

Provide primary care for aging adults with an online post-master’s certificate for RNs and nurse practitioners in New York state with master’s degrees.

Online Courses for Today’s Top Healthcare Careers

Adelphi University’s online healthcare programs deliver rigorous courses that prepare you to take the next step toward advanced professional roles. We strive to align our curriculum with evolving business, healthcare and public health needs, so you receive up-to-date knowledge and in-demand skills throughout your program.

A Healthcare Program Opens Doors to Growing Careers

With an Adelphi healthcare degree, you can pursue some of the fastest growing jobs in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Across healthcare occupations, about 1.9 million job openings will be available each year from 2023 to 2033.1 Discover salaries for some of these roles below.

Explore Potential Healthcare Positions

Medical and Health Services Managers in Hospitals (State, Local and Private) $130,690 per year2

Nurse Practitioner $129,210 per year3

Medical and Health Services Managers in Outpatient Care Centers $106,990 per year2

Epidemiologists $83,980 per year4

Top Recognition for Adelphi University

Adelphi has been transforming lives with our unique approach to learning for more than 150 years. By welcoming students from around the globe, we’ve expanded our academic offerings and geographic reach, celebrating significant milestones and successful outcomes.

Adelphi University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, and our degree programs have received considerable recognition from numerous national publications and organizations such as U.S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review, Colleges of Distinction, Military Friendly and more:

Best colleges, national universities 2025, U.S. News and world reports
The Princeton review, best regional colleges 2024 northeast
Military friendly school, 2025-2026
Best colleges, Social mobility 2025, U.S. news and world report
best colleges, colleges of 2024-2025 distinction, 10 years
Best graduate schools 2024, 250 best
Best colleges, colleges of career development distinction 2024-2025, 5 years
Phi theta kappa honor society, transfer honor roll 2024
Best colleges of equity and inclusion distinction, 2024-2025 distinction
best colleges, colleges of military support distinction 2024-2025, 5 years
Best colleges, business colleges of distinction 2024-2025, 5 years
Best colleges, colleges of international distinction 2024-2025
The Princeton review, best business schools 2024
Military friendly spouse school, 2025-2026
The Princeton review, guide to green schools 2023
insight into diversity, higher education excellence in diversity award 2024, seven-time recipient

The Attention You Deserve

Founded in 1896, Adelphi University is a nationally ranked, respected and well-connected research university. We pride ourselves on our ability to create distinctive environments of intellectual rigor and creativity. At Adelphi, you’ll always have the guidance and support you need to define your success in the classroom, in your career and beyond.

Online Study at Adelphi University

Adelphi’s online programs are built for flexibility, providing you with a quality education that fits into your busy schedule. Our expert faculty are always here to answer your questions and guide you through your program. We offer many opportunities for students to connect directly with professors and work alongside them for research, mentoring and networking.

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Sources

  1. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. “Healthcare Occupations.” April 18, 2025. Retrieved May 27, 2025, from https://www.bls.gov/.
  2. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. “Medical and Health Services Managers.” April 18, 2025. Retrieved May 27, 2025, from https://www.bls.gov/.
  3. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. “Nurse Anesthetists, Nurse Midwives, and Nurse Practitioners.” April 18, 2025. Retrieved May 27, 2025, from https://www.bls.gov/.
  4. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. “Epidemiologists.” April 18, 2025. Retrieved May 27, 2025, from https://www.bls.gov/.