2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Funeral Direction/Service

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Funeral Direction/Service Major for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 310 people earned their degree in funeral direction/service, making the major the 831st most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 51 funeral direction/service graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Funeral Direction/Service Major for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in funeral direction/service. To top this list, a school must have a successful funeral direction/service program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Funeral Direction/Service Major for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree funeral direction/service students.

Top 3 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Funeral Direction/Service

1

Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan

Top 25% overall quality in United States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wayne State University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Funeral Direction/Service Major for a Bachelor’s. Wayne State University is located in Detroit, Michigan and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 30 bachelors’s funeral direction/service degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Funeral Direction/Service at Wayne State University

2

Mid-America College of Funeral Service
Jeffersonville, Indiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mid-America College of Funeral Service. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Funeral Direction/Service Major for a Bachelor’s. Mid-America College of Funeral Service is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Jeffersonville, Indiana. It awarded 17 bachelors’s funeral direction/service degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

Read more about Funeral Direction/Service at Mid-America College

3

SUNY Canton
Canton, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY Canton. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Funeral Direction/Service Major for a Bachelor’s list. SUNY Canton is located in Canton, New York and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s funeral direction/service degrees to qualified students.

Full SUNY Canton 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.