Most Affordable DHSc Degree Programs, Ranked by Tuition

Ordered by each university's published annual graduate tuition, which is the only cost figure defined the same way for every school here.

Last updated August 20, 2026

Programs: 12
Of all verified: 52%
States: 8
Lowest: $7,716

TL;DR

Key Facts About the Most Affordable DHSc Degree Programs

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania publishes the lowest tuition of any DHSc degree program we verified, $7,716 a year. It is also the one program on this page taught on campus rather than online, it runs nine terms, and it ends in a full dissertation.
Old Dominion is the cheapest DHSc degree program you can finish online, at $7,800 a year. You get 42 credit hours as 14 courses of three credits each across three years, so you can build the whole cost before you apply. Radford charges $8,528 for 42 credit hours over seven semesters and says no campus visits are required.
The five cheapest DHSc degree programs on this page are all public universities. Those five run from $7,716 to $10,080 a year. The sixth program costs $14,440, and prices across the twelve reach $37,972.
The tuition column is an annual institutional rate, not the price of the degree. Liberty publishes $15,297 a year against 60 credit hours, the longest program on this page, so a cheap year can still add up to the biggest bill. Read the tuition figure next to the credit count in the same row.
Transfer credit moves the real total more than the published rate does. Liberty takes up to half the degree from credit you already hold, and Purdue Global takes up to 28 elective credits from your master's. That's tuition you never pay.
The public rates are in-state rates. Old Dominion publishes $28,305 a year for out-of-state graduate students and Radford publishes $21,166, so check your residency status before you plan a budget around the low figure.

Most Affordable DHSc Degree Programs, Ranked by Tuition, Compared

#	School	Credits	Ends	Format	Tuition	Score
1	East Stroudsburg PA		Dissertation	On campus	$7,716	55.4
2	Old Dominion VA	42		Online	$7,800	96.7
3	Radford VA	42	Applied project	Online	$8,528	98.9
4	Indiana State IN	37	Applied project	Online	$9,978	94.6
5	Purdue Global IN		Applied project	Online	$10,080	85.9
6	Touro Worldwide CA	48	Applied project	Online	$14,440	88
7	Liberty VA	60	Applied project	Online	$15,297	79.3
8	Lenoir-Rhyne NC	48	Applied project	Online	$31,000	77.2
9	Bridgeport CT		Dissertation	Online	$32,860	62
10	UIndy IN		Dissertation	Online + campus	$35,448	53.3
11	Nova Southeastern FL	46	Applied project	Online + campus	$37,500	68.5
12	Bay Path MA	48	Applied project	Online	$37,972	83.7

Score is the program's position on the national ranking, shown so you can see where a program sits overall as well as on this cut. A blank cell means the school does not publish that figure.

The 12 Cheapest DHSc Degree Programs, Ranked by Published Tuition

#1 Score 55.4

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

Doctorate of Health Science (D.H.Sc.) · East Stroudsburg, PA · Public

The lowest published graduate tuition on the site, and the clearest example of why this column needs reading carefully. East Stroudsburg is a public university, which is where the price comes from, and it is also the one program here delivered on campus rather than online, running nine terms to a full dissertation.

View East Stroudsburg's Doctorate of Health Science Program

Length: 9 terms
Ends: Dissertation
Tracks: 2
Tuition: $7,716
Completion: 43%
Conferred: 14

#2 Score 96.7

Old Dominion University

Doctor of Health Sciences (DHSc) · Norfolk, VA · Public

The strongest combination of price and clarity here. Old Dominion is public, publishes among the lowest graduate tuition of anything on this site, and unlike most cheap options tells you exactly what you are buying: 14 courses of three credits, 42 hours, three years, entirely online. Cheap and vague is common on this page; cheap and specific is not.

View Old Dominion's Doctor of Health Sciences Program

Credits: 42 14 three-credit courses
Length: 3 years
Tuition: $7,800
Completion: 46%

#3 Score 98.9

Radford University

Doctor of Health Sciences (D.H.Sc.) · Radford, VA · Public

Public, and priced like it, with published graduate tuition among the lowest on this site. Unlike most cheap options here you can also build the total: 42 credit hours across seven semesters, two courses at a time, ending in an applied scholarly capstone. Ask the department which capstone size applies, since Radford's pages give both 9 credits and 6, and apply early in the cycle, because it fills its cohorts.

View Radford's Doctor of Health Sciences Program

Credits: 42
Length: 7 semesters
Ends: Applied project
Tracks: 3
Tuition: $8,528
Completion: 49%

#4 Score 94.6

Indiana State University

Doctor of Health Science in Healthcare Leadership (DHSc) · Terre Haute, IN · Public

Public tuition attached to a programme that is also fully remote with no required campus visits and no dissertation. Of the cheap options here it asks the least of your calendar as well as your wallet, with five start dates a year on eight or sixteen week terms. The structure is 30 credits of core plus a 7-credit scholarly experience and a concentration.

View Indiana State's Doctor of Health Science in Healthcare Leadership Program

Credits: 37 30 core + 7 scholarly experience, plus a concentration
Ends: Applied project
Starts: 5/year
Tuition: $9,978
Completion: 43%
Conferred: 1

#5 Score 85.9

Purdue University Global

Doctor of Health Science (DHSc) · West Lafayette, IN · Public

Priced within a few hundred dollars of the public options despite being private, and the transfer policy stretches that further: up to 28 elective credits carried in from your master's is tuition never paid. Purdue Global also removes the hidden cost that catches people on this page, stating that every course is online with no residency requirement, so the published figure is close to the real one.

View Purdue Global's Doctor of Health Science Program

Ends: Applied project
Tuition: $10,080
Completion: 50%

#6 Score 88

Touro University Worldwide

Doctor of Health Science (DHSc) · Los Alamitos, CA · Private

Inexpensive for a private university, at 48 credits with a published two-year completion, so the annual figure and the length point the same way rather than fighting each other. The cost of entry is academic rather than financial: a master's and a cumulative 3.4, the highest published GPA floor on this site, plus two references and a doctoral entrance essay.

View Touro Worldwide's Doctor of Health Science Program

Credits: 48 36 core + 6 proposal + 6 research project
Length: 2 years
Ends: Applied project
Starts: 6/year
Tuition: $14,440
Completion: 29%
Conferred: 10

#7 Score 79.3

Liberty University

Doctor of Health Sciences (DHSc) · Lynchburg, VA · Private

A low annual rate attached to the second longest degree here at 60 credit hours, which is exactly the case this page exists to warn about. What rescues the arithmetic is the transfer policy: up to half the degree can come from credits you already hold.

View Liberty's Doctor of Health Sciences Program

Credits: 60
Ends: Applied project
Tracks: 2
Tuition: $15,297
Completion: 65%
Conferred: 16

#8 Score 77.2

Lenoir-Rhyne University

Doctor of Health Science (DHSc) · Hickory, NC · Private

Mid-priced among the private universities here, at 48 credit hours ending in an applied research project. Lenoir-Rhyne publishes enough to compare on cost, which several cheaper programmes on this page do not. The open question is the format: the programme is described as combining online learning with a traditional residential experience, and travel is a cost this page cannot show you.

View Lenoir-Rhyne's Doctor of Health Science Program

Credits: 48
Ends: Applied project
Tuition: $31,000
Completion: 48%

#9 Score 62

University of Bridgeport

Doctor of Health Sciences (DHSc) · Bridgeport, CT · Private

Middle of this page on price, and the only programme on it ending in a genuine dissertation with a committee advisor. If you want research training rather than an applied project, this is where that requirement and the affordable end of the market overlap. Three start dates a year, all coursework online, three concentrations, and it is not open to international students.

View Bridgeport's Doctor of Health Sciences Program

Length: 3+ years
Ends: Dissertation
Starts: 3/year
Tracks: 3
Tuition: $32,860
Completion: 41%
Conferred: 12

#10 Score 53.3

University of Indianapolis

Doctor of Health Science (DHSc) · Indianapolis, IN · Private

Near the top of this page's range, and the price comes with a dissertation and a required on-campus session in year two. It qualifies as affordable at all only because DHSc pricing runs so much higher above it, which tells you how wide the field is.

View UIndy's Doctor of Health Science Program

Length: 3 years
Ends: Dissertation
Tuition: $35,448
Completion: 56%
Conferred: 24

#11 Score 68.5

Nova Southeastern University

Doctor of Health Science (D.H.Sc.) · Fort Lauderdale, FL · Private

Not the cheapest, but the figure comes attached to unusually complete information: 46 credit hours, three years at standard pace, four concentrations, four start dates and a stated seven-year limit. You can build a real total from what Nova publishes, which is rarer on this page than it should be. Budget separately for the one-week institute, attended twice.

View Nova Southeastern's Doctor of Health Science Program

Credits: 46 42 didactic + 4 experiential
Length: 3 years
Ends: Applied project
Starts: 4/year
Tracks: 4
Tuition: $37,500
Completion: 63%
Conferred: 42

#12 Score 83.7

Bay Path University

Doctor of Health Science (DHSc) · Longmeadow, MA · Private

The top of this page's range, and what the money buys is choice: 14 concentration tracks, more than any other programme on the site, across 48 credits and 16 courses. If one of those tracks is the specialism you want, no cheaper programme here offers it. If none of them is, the core content is broadly what the rest of this page teaches for less.

View Bay Path's Doctor of Health Science Program

Credits: 48
Length: 2+ years
Ends: Applied project
Starts: 2/year
Tracks: 14
Tuition: $37,972
Completion: 44%
Conferred: 18

What You Need to Know About the Most Affordable DHSc Degree Programs

The pattern in this list is not subtle: the cheapest programs are public universities, and there are only a handful of them offering this degree. Below the public tier, the price gaps between private programs are large and do not track anything a reader would recognise as quality.

The trap on this page is the figure itself. This is an annual institutional rate, and a DHSc is not an annual purchase. A low rate attached to a 60 or 70 credit degree can cost more in total than a higher rate attached to a 35 credit one, and two programs on this list are exactly that shape. Read the tuition column and the credits column together or do not read either.

The other thing that moves the real number is transfer credit, which no tuition table shows. Liberty will take up to half the degree from work you already hold. Purdue Global will take up to 28 elective credits. Nova will take eight. For a candidate with a recent, relevant master's, that policy is worth more than several thousand dollars of rate difference.

How much of the bill you can borrow is unsettled, because a federal judge tossed out the Education Department's narrow definition of a professional degree, and that classification is what decides whether a health doctorate student can borrow $50,000 a year or $20,500.

Set the annual rate against what the work pays, since medical and health services managers earn a median $123,860 a year in the occupation most DHSc graduates are aiming at, and federal projections put its growth through 2034 at much faster than average.

Frequently Asked Questions About DHSc Degree Program Costs

How many DHSc programs publish their tuition?

12 of the 23 enrolling programs we verified, across 8 states. The other 11 either do not qualify or do not publish enough for us to say, and we do not guess either way.

Is a cheaper DHSc worth less?

Not necessarily, but read the figure carefully. This is an annual institutional rate, so a low number at a long program can still cost more overall than a high number at a short one. Compare it against the credit count in the same row before drawing a conclusion.

How is this list ordered?

By the column this page is about, lowest published tuition first, rather than by our overall score. Each card still shows the score it earned on the national ranking so you can see where it sits overall.