2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Funeral & Mortuary Science (Income $0-$30k) in California

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Mortuary Science Schools for an Associate in California For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Funeral & Mortuary Science is the 211th most popular major in the country with 2,058 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, funeral and mortuary science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,096 and had an average of $14,560 in loans still to pay off.

Across California, there were 32 funeral and mortuary science graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,400 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 30 funeral and mortuary science graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,451 and $19,634 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality funeral and mortuary science 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 and mortuary science program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for an Associate in California For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for an Associate in California For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Funeral & Mortuary Science (Income $0-$30k) in California

#1

Cypress College

Cypress, California

#1 in overall quality

$2,782 Average Net Price

$36,852 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for an Associate in California For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Cypress College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Cypress, California, this fairly large public school awarded 18 degrees to qualified associates’s mortuary science students in 2019-2020.

Cypress College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Associate Degree Schools in California” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Cypress College is $2,782 for California Associate Degree Mortuary Science students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read more about Funeral & Mortuary Science at Cypress College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Funeral & Mortuary Science (Income $0-$30k) in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Funeral & Mortuary Science (Income $0-$30k)

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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