The School of Healthcare Administration began its first undergraduate degree in 1974 as a Bachelor of Science in Health Professions with a specialization in Health care Management and graduated its first graduate that same year. The program has graduated 138 students under this specialization. The program changed to a Bachelor of Science in Health Professions with a major in Healthcare Administration in 1982 and has graduated 872 students.

In 1978, The Master of Science in Health Professions with a major in Allied Health Management was approved. The major was changed in 1983 to a major in Healthcare Administration and has graduated 543 students between 1983-1997.

Since 1992, the School has been one of only seven in North America to attain membership in the Association of University Programs in Health Administration at the undergraduate level and a graduate program accredited by the Accrediting Commission on Education for Health Services Administration. The program has grown to nearly four hundred undergraduate and graduate students and ten faculty.