Online Health Care Degrees and Certificates

Our online health degrees are designed to help you turn real-world experience and passion for care into professional opportunity. With pathways for every stage of your career, you’ll gain the practical knowledge and leadership skills you need to move forward — in your role, in your organization, or into a new direction entirely.

When it’s time to get resume-worthy experience, you’ll be supported by our internship coordinator, who helps online students secure hands-on learning opportunities close to home. If we don’t already have a partnership in your area, we’ll work to build one.

• Explore the Health Care Management, B.S.
  Prepare for leadership roles in hospitals, clinics, nonprofits, and government health agencies. You’ll study strategy, operations, finance, and policy — and graduate ready to manage people, programs, and systems in complex care settings.

• Discover the Public Health, B.A.
  Improve community health through research, education, and outreach. This program prepares you for roles in local and national public health efforts — from health education to disease prevention to health equity advocacy. You don’t have to leave your community to make a difference. In fact, local knowledge is one of your greatest assets. From school-based outreach to rural health promotion, public health starts at the neighborhood level.

• Build your path with the Aging Services Leadership, B.S.
  Turn compassion into action with a degree focused on aging policy, elder care systems, and leadership in long-term services. Ideal for those with personal or professional experience in supporting older adults.

• Advance with the Health Care Professional Services, B.S.
  Designed for working professionals already in health care. Earn your degree while you work, and move into supervisory or management roles with new confidence in leadership and business strategy.

• Broaden your impact through the Integrative Health Care, B.S.
  Combine clinical knowledge with whole-person care approaches. This degree supports careers in wellness, prevention, community care, and nontraditional health roles.

• Move from an RN to BSN online.
  Already an RN or currently enrolled in an associate degree nursing program? MSU Denver’s fully online RN to BSN program is designed to help you elevate your nursing practice without putting your life on hold. With flexible 8-week courses, you can balance work, life, and education seamlessly.

  This program focuses on advanced nursing concepts, including leadership, community health, and evidence-based practice. You’ll gain the skills needed to take on expanded roles in healthcare settings, from hospitals to community organizations.

  MSU Denver’s RN to BSN program is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education and approved by the Colorado State Board of Nursing. It’s accessible to students residing in any U.S. state, offering a convenient pathway to advance your nursing credentials.

• Focus your studies with the Men’s Health Concentration
  Address men’s health issues through a social and clinical lens. This emphasis fits within our broader Health Science degree and is ideal for those interested in advocacy, outreach, or specialized care.

Each of our programs prepares you for jobs that make a real difference — and pay competitively, especially in rural and underserved areas of Colorado and the West.

Depending on your degree, you could pursue roles such as:

• Health Care Manager
  Median salary: $104,830 (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
  Entry-level: $65,000+ (often higher in rural areas due to demand)
• Public Health Educator / Specialist
  Entry-level: $50,000–$60,000+
  Community-focused roles with nonprofit, school district, or government employers
• Long-Term Care Administrator / Elder Services Coordinator
  Salary range: $55,000–$80,000
  High growth and aging population needs = job security
• Wellness Coach / Care Navigator / Health Program Coordinator
  Salaries vary widely, starting at ~$45,000+
  These roles often allow remote or hybrid work

Our graduates are working in hospitals, public health departments, rural health centers, senior services organizations, and health-focused nonprofits across Colorado and beyond.

Education That Comes to You

Living on the Eastern Plains? Western Slope? Somewhere between work shifts or caregiving duties? You can earn your degree entirely online — no travel to Denver, no disruption to your daily life. MSU Denver’s online health programs are built for working Coloradans, with asynchronous classes, generous credit transfers, and faculty who understand real-world schedules.

Just because you don’t live near a major metro area doesn’t mean you’ll miss out on career opportunities. Our internship coordinator will work with you directly to find or build placements in your community. We’ve helped students across Colorado gain real-world experience close to home — and in many cases, those internships turn into job offers.

That’s especially true in public health, where careers often begin — and thrive — in the very communities you’re already part of. Whether you’re addressing vaccine confidence, senior services, or maternal health, your local knowledge makes you more effective from day one.

VA-Approved Degrees for Veterans

Your leadership, discipline, and systems thinking are a natural fit for the Health Care Management program. This VA-approved degree helps you step into organizational roles — whether in hospitals, the VA, private health networks, or government agencies. Want to work in public service? Check out Public Health too — it’s a powerful option for veterans who want to keep serving.

Whether you’re transitioning from active duty or building a second career, our online health programs provide structure, support, and a mission-driven next chapter. You’ve led teams and managed logistics — now you can lead care systems that make a difference.

Advance Your Nursing Career

You’ve done the work — passed the NCLEX, cared for patients, and built real-world experience. Now you’re ready to go further.

MSU Denver’s fully online RN to BSN program is designed for working nurses who want to expand their skills, qualify for leadership roles, and unlock higher earning potential. You’ll explore community health, evidence-based practice, and nursing leadership — all in 8-week courses that fit into a full-time nursing schedule.

This is more than a credential. It’s a career accelerator — and a flexible one at that.

For Nurses Facing Burnout

Burnout is real — and it pulls too many good nurses away from the profession they once loved. If you’re emotionally or physically drained, or looking for a role that allows you to help without the frontline toll, we see you. Our Public Health and Health Care Management programs are pathways into roles that still center care — just from a new angle. You can make a difference in education, planning, administration, or advocacy. You don’t have to leave health care to save yourself.

Turning Family Care into a Calling

You’ve already been the one making the appointments, managing medications, advocating at clinics. Why not take that lived experience and turn it into a career that supports others doing the same? Our Aging Services Leadership degree is designed to help you turn informal experience into formal expertise — and step into roles that truly matter in a rapidly aging society.

Graduates work in care coordination, senior services leadership, and policy-focused roles that shape how we support older adults across Colorado and the West.

Build a Career With Purpose — and a Paycheck

Maybe you’re already working in health care — helping patients, managing check-ins, assisting nurses, or coordinating appointments. You know the systems. You see what works — and what doesn’t. And while you’re proud of what you do, you want more security, more upward movement, and a voice in how care gets delivered.

The Health Care Professional Services, B.S. is built for people like you. You can keep working while you earn your degree online, and gain the administrative, leadership, and communication skills that open doors.

Graduates often move into roles like care team supervisor, quality coordinator, patient services manager, or clinic operations lead — jobs that pay more, offer better hours, and let you shape patient experience from the inside.

Other Health-Focused Options

While the programs above are fully online, MSU Denver offers several hybrid or on-campus options too:

• Master of Health Administration
  Graduate-level preparation for upper-level leadership in health systems
• Community Health Educator Certificate
  Stackable undergraduate credential in health education

Get Help Deciding What’s Right for You

Want to talk to a real person about which program fits your goals?
We have enrollment specialists just for online students at MSU Denver to help you do everything from finding the right program to getting registered for class.

Email us at [email protected] or call 303-605-5808 and we’ll help you get started.