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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Funeral & Mortuary Science (Income $48-$75k)

5 Ranked Colleges
185 Degrees Awarded
$36,225 Avg Salary
Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Making $48-$75k

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 Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 2,058 people earned their degree in funeral and mortuary science, making the major the 211th most popular in the United States. 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.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 185 funeral and mortuary science graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in funeral and mortuary science. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great funeral and mortuary science programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the funeral and mortuary science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree mortuary science students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Funeral & Mortuary Science (Income $48-$75k)

#1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Minneapolis, Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this large public school awarded 26 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s mortuary science students in 2019-2020.

UMN Twin Cities also took the #1 spot in our “Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $12,556 for bachelor’s degree mortuary science students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Funeral & Mortuary Science at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

#2

Wayne State University

Detroit, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wayne State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k list. Wayne State is a large public school situated in Detroit, Michigan. It awarded 24 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees in 2019-2020.

Wayne State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $13,668 for Bachelor’s Degree Mortuary Science students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Wayne State.

Read more about Funeral & Mortuary Science at Wayne State

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Oklahoma. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in Edmond, Oklahoma, this fairly large public school handed out 26 degrees to qualified bachelors’s mortuary science students in 2019-2020.

UCO not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for UCO is $18,693 for Bachelor’s Degree Mortuary Science students whose families make $48-$75k.

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#4

Point Park University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Point Park University landed the #4 spot on the list. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s mortuary science degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

Point Park not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $20,364 for bachelor’s degree mortuary science students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Point Park University.

Full Point Park Funeral & Mortuary Science Report

#5

Mid-America College of Funeral Service

Jeffersonville, Indiana
#6 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Mid-America College of Funeral Service landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Jeffersonville, Indiana, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 15 degrees to qualified bachelors’s mortuary science students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Mid-America College, the school also landed the #6 spot in our “Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Mid-America College is $23,036 for bachelor’s degree mortuary science students whose families make $48-$75k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Mid-America College of Funeral Service Funeral & Mortuary Science 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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