Let \(\Lambda \) be a higher Auslander algebra with global dimension \(n+1\) . In this paper, we prove that \(\Lambda \) is representation-finite if and only if the number of non-isomorphic indecomposable \(\Lambda \) -modules with projective dimension \(n+1\) is finite. As an application, we classify the representation-finite higher Auslander algebras of linearly oriented type \(\mathbb {A}\) in the sense of Iyama and calculate the number of non-isomorphic indecomposable modules over these algebras.