Online Health courses for college credit

For a health or nursing program, Medical Terminology and Anatomy and Physiology I are common starting points. For healthcare administration, start with Healthcare Organization and Management. No health course here lists a prerequisite in its syllabus.

6 self-paced courses, worth 18 semester hours of NCCRS-recommended credit in all.

Not yet: every health course here carries an NCCRS recommendation. Not being on the ACE list never means not recommended for credit.

NCCRS recommends Healthcare Organization and Management, Healthcare Finance and Budgeting and Human Resource Management in Healthcare in the upper-division category. The rest are lower division.

Healthcare Organization and Management covers how healthcare organizations are run: law and ethics, leadership, teams, strategy, IT, finance, quality, HR and marketing. Healthcare Finance and Budgeting covers healthcare finance: insurance and coding, costs, financial statements, ratios, budgeting, capital decisions and staffing. Human Resource Management in Healthcare covers managing people in healthcare: HR strategy, law and ethics, job design, hiring, pay and benefits, training and labor relations.

Anatomy and Physiology I covers the human body from chemistry and cells to tissues, skin, bones, joints, muscles, the nervous system and the endocrine system. Anatomy and Physiology 2 covers blood, the heart and circulation, immunity, breathing, digestion, metabolism, the kidneys, fluid balance and reproduction.

Start with Healthcare Organization and Management, then Healthcare Finance and Budgeting, in that order. This is UPI Study's suggested order for healthcare management; your program may set its own.

Start with Medical Terminology, then Anatomy and Physiology I and Anatomy and Physiology 2, in that order. This is UPI Study's suggested order for before a health program; your program may set its own.

Yes: Anatomy and Physiology 2 (Biology 212) follows Anatomy and Physiology I. Its syllabus lists no prerequisite.

As long as you need: every course is self-paced, so you finish as fast or as slow as you want. By their syllabi they run from 42 instructional hours (Anatomy and Physiology 2) to 76 (Medical Terminology).

Medical Terminology, Anatomy and Physiology I, Anatomy and Physiology 2, Healthcare Organization and Management, Healthcare Finance and Budgeting and Human Resource Management in Healthcare: 25% of the grade. Final exams are mostly multiple choice, and a pass in the course is 70 or more.

Yes, as separate courses: Anatomy and Physiology I Lab and Anatomy and Physiology II Lab, 2 semester hours each, listed with the science courses. Each lab ends in a lab report and a quiz, with no final exam.

Each school decides how transfer credit applies to its own degree: as a major course, general education or an elective. The NCCRS recommendations for these courses most often name Healthcare Management, Hospital Administration, Human Services and Biology. Ask your school with the course syllabus in hand; every course page has its syllabus.

You get one free retake; if you don't pass the retake, you restart the course. If you pass and retake it, your first score counts. Quizzes can be retaken as often as you like; the average of your first two attempts counts.

ACE and NCCRS have over 2,100 cooperating colleges that will consider accepting credits; the final decision is with the universities. Search your school in Find My College, and ask your registrar which course each one would count as.

$250 a course, paid once, with no proctoring or exam fees. Or take every course with a plan.