2023 Best General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$24,000
Avg Cost*
Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for General Mortuary Science for a Bachelor’s” ranking.
In 2020-2021, 1,917 people earned their degree in general funeral service and mortuary science, making the major the 338th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 439 general funeral service and mortuary science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 general funeral service and mortuary science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general funeral service and mortuary science programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general funeral service and mortuary science program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for General Mortuary Science for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for General Mortuary Science for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Oklahoma. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for General Mortuary Science for a Bachelor’s. Edmond, Oklahoma is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general mortuary science degrees to 19 students in 2020-2021.
UCO did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.According to our most recent data, UCO supports 14,132 students, and 934 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 428 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,062. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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.