2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Funeral & Mortuary Science in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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.

Across the Southwest region, there were 429 funeral and mortuary science graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,725 and $15,250 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 26 funeral and mortuary science graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent funeral and mortuary science programs, but they also cost less that 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The mortuary science school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid”.

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Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree mortuary science students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Funeral & Mortuary Science in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Central Oklahoma

Edmond, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$16,562 Average Net Price

$39,523 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Oklahoma landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Edmond, Oklahoma, and it awarded 26 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees in 2019-2020.

UCO did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $16,562 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Mortuary Science students with aid per year to attend UCO.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Funeral & Mortuary Science (With Aid)

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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