by our College Data Analytics TeamThe main focus area for this major is General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Funeral & Mortuary Science is a major offered under the personal and culinary services program of study at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the bachelor’s degree program in mortuary science, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, whether or not the degree is offered online, and more.
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Each year, we produce a number of different types of college rankings to help students decide which school is the best fit for them. The mortuary science major at SIUC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Mortuary Science. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.
Here are some of the other rankings for SIUC.
Part-time undergraduates at SIUC paid an average of $320 per credit hour in 2019-2020. This tuition was the same for both in-state and out-of-state students. Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In State | Out of State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $9,591 | $9,591 |
| Fees | $5,466 | $5,466 |
| Books and Supplies | $1,100 | $1,100 |
| On Campus Room and Board | $10,622 | $10,622 |
| On Campus Other Expenses | $2,941 | $2,941 |
Learn more about SIUC tuition and fees.
One way to think about how much a school will cost is to look at how much in student loans that you have to take out to get your degree. Mortuary Science students who received their bachelor’s degree at SIUC took out an average of $27,500 in student loans. That is 54% higher than the national average of $17,835.
The median early career salary of mortuary science students who receive their bachelor’s degree from SIUC is $29,685 per year. That is 18% lower than the national average of $36,225.
Looking for online learning options? Good news, you can take online classes in the mortuary science bachelor’s degree program at SIUC. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the SIUC Online Learning page.
About 81.0% of the students who received their Bachelor’s in mortuary science in 2019-2020 were women. This is higher than the nationwide number of 71.4%.
Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 23.8% of the mortuary science bachelor’s degrees at SIUC in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 17%.
| Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
|---|---|
| Asian | 0 |
| Black or African American | 3 |
| Hispanic or Latino | 2 |
| Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
| White | 16 |
| International Students | 0 |
| Other Races/Ethnicities | 0 |
Funeral & Mortuary Science students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
| Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science | 21 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.
