2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Funeral Direction/Service (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Funeral Direction/Service Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 242 people earned their degree in funeral direction/service, making the major the 872nd most popular in the United States.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 106 funeral direction/service graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Funeral Direction/Service Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in funeral direction/service. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent funeral direction/service 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 direction/service program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The funeral direction/service 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 Funeral Direction/Service Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid”.

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Best Value Funeral Direction/Service Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Funeral Direction/Service Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Funeral Direction/Service (With Aid)

#1

Lake Washington Institute of Technology

Kirkland, Washington

#1 in overall quality

$7,713 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lake Washington Institute of Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Funeral Direction/Service Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid. Lake Washington Institute of Technology is a small school located in Kirkland, Washington that handed out 9 associates’s funeral direction/service degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at LWTech, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Funeral Direction/Service Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Lake Washington Institute of Technology is $7,713 for associate degree funeral direction/service students with aid.

Read full report on Funeral Direction/Service at Lake Washington Institute of Technology

#2

Milwaukee Area Technical College

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

#2 in overall quality

$9,076 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Milwaukee Area Technical College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Funeral Direction/Service Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid. This fairly large school is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and it awarded 14 associates’s funeral direction/service degrees in 2019-2020.

MATC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Funeral Direction/Service Associate Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Milwaukee Area Technical College is $9,076 for associate degree funeral direction/service students with aid.

Full Milwaukee Area Technical College Funeral Direction/Service 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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