2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science in Arkansas

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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on General Mortuary Science Major in Arkansas” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 1,917 people earned their degree in general funeral service and mortuary science, making the major the 338th most popular in the United States.

Across Arkansas, there were 26 general funeral service and mortuary science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 25 general funeral service and mortuary science graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,707 and $16,924 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on General Mortuary Science Major in Arkansas” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general funeral service and mortuary science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general funeral service and mortuary science.

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The general 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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on General Mortuary Science Major in Arkansas”.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on General Mortuary Science Major in Arkansas

The colleges and universities below are the best for arkansas associate degree general mortuary science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science in Arkansas

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Arkansas State University - Mountain Home
Mountain Home, Arkansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arkansas State University - Mountain Home. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on General Mortuary Science Major in Arkansas list. Arkansas State University - Mountain Home is a small school located in Mountain Home, Arkansas that handed out 15 associates’s general mortuary science degrees in 2020-2021.

Full ASUMH General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science Report

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University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana
Hope, Arkansas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on General Mortuary Science Major in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Hope, Arkansas, this small public school awarded 10 degrees to qualified associates’s general mortuary science students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science at UA Hope-Texarkana

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science

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.