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2022 Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

5 Ranked Colleges
185 Degrees Awarded
$17,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Getting Aid

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 “Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Funeral & Mortuary Science is the 211th most popular major in the country with 2,058 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 185 funeral and mortuary science graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in funeral and mortuary science. 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the funeral and mortuary science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

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

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Funeral & Mortuary Science (With Aid)

#1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities landed the #1 spot on the list. Minneapolis, Minnesota is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s mortuary science degrees to 26 students in 2019-2020.

UMN Twin Cities did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend UMN Twin Cities is $17,740 for Bachelor’s Degree Mortuary Science students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Funeral & Mortuary Science at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

#2

Wayne State University

Detroit, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wayne State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid. This large school is located in Detroit, Michigan, and it awarded 24 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Wayne State, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Wayne State is $13,965 for bachelor’s degree mortuary science students with aid.

Read more about Funeral & Mortuary Science at Wayne State

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Oklahoma. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. University of Central Oklahoma is a fairly large school located in Edmond, Oklahoma that handed out 26 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees in 2019-2020.

UCO not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Central Oklahoma is $16,562 for bachelor’s degree mortuary science students with aid.

Read more about Funeral & Mortuary Science at University of Central Oklahoma

#4

Point Park University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Point Park University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid. This small school is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees in 2019-2020.

Point Park did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Point Park is $21,470 for bachelor’s degree mortuary science students with aid.

Read more about Funeral & Mortuary Science at Point Park

#5

Mid-America College of Funeral Service

Jeffersonville, Indiana
#6 in overall quality

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 #5 for the Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid. Mid-America College of Funeral Service is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Jeffersonville, Indiana. It awarded 15 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees in 2019-2020.

Mid-America College also made our “Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #6. It costs about $18,370 for bachelor’s degree mortuary science students with aid per year to attend Mid-America College of Funeral Service.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Funeral & Mortuary Science at Mid-America College

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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