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2022 Best Value Funeral Direction/Service Schools for an Associate For Those Making $30-$48k

2 Ranked Colleges
106 Degrees Awarded
$7,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Funeral Direction/Service Schools for an Associate For Those Making $30-$48k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Funeral Direction/Service Schools for an Associate For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 242 people earned their degree in funeral direction/service, making the major the 872nd most popular in the United States.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 106 funeral direction/service graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Funeral Direction/Service Schools for an Associate For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in funeral direction/service. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality funeral direction/service programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the funeral direction/service program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Funeral Direction/Service Schools for an Associate For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree funeral direction/service students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Funeral Direction/Service (Income $30-$48k)

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Funeral Direction/Service Schools for an Associate For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Lake Washington Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Lake Washington Institute of Technology is a public institution located in Kirkland, Washington. The school has a small population, and it awarded 9 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

LWTech also took the #1 spot in our “Best Funeral Direction/Service Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Lake Washington Institute of Technology is $6,852 for associate degree funeral direction/service students whose families make $30-$48k.

Read more about Funeral Direction/Service at LWTech

#2

Milwaukee Area Technical College

Milwaukee, Wisconsin
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Milwaukee Area Technical College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Funeral Direction/Service Schools for an Associate For Those Making $30-$48k. MATC is a fairly large school located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that handed out 14 associates’s funeral direction/service degrees in 2019-2020.

MATC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Funeral Direction/Service Associate Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for MATC is $8,353 for associate degree funeral direction/service students whose families make $30-$48k.

Full Milwaukee Area Technical College Funeral Direction/Service Report

Notes and References

References

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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