2025 Best Funeral Direction/Service Bachelor's Degree Schools

Funeral Direction/Servicebachelor's programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major degree program ranks #791 out of the 1232 majors we look at each year. While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for funeral direction/service students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 51 bachelor's degrees in funeral direction/service to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to funeral direction/service students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other funeral direction/service students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized funeral direction/service related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for funeral direction/service students working on their bachelor's degree.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Funeral Direction/Service in the United States

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in funeral direction/service.

Top Schools for a Bachelor's in Funeral Direction/Service

1

Wayne State University
Detroit, MI

22 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Wayne State University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in funeral direction/service. Located in the large city of Detroit, Wayne State is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in funeral direction/service from Wayne State University

2

Mid-America College of Funeral Service
Jeffersonville, IN

13 Annual Graduates

Mid-America College of Funeral Service is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in funeral direction/service. Located in the suburb of Jeffersonville, Mid-America College is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in funeral direction/service from Mid-America College of Funeral Service

Funeral Direction/Service by Region

View the Best Funeral Direction/Service Bachelor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Funeral Direction/Service Related Rankings by Major

One of 3 majors within the Funeral & Mortuary Science area of study, Funeral Direction/Service has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Funeral Direction/Service

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science	151

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.