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2022 Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s

6 Ranked Colleges
185 Degrees Awarded
$17,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor's

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” 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.

This year’s “Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in funeral and mortuary science. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality funeral and mortuary science programs that also have a lower cost than 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 and mortuary science program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Funeral & Mortuary Science

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Oklahoma. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s list. UCO is located in Edmond, Oklahoma and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 26 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees to qualified students.

UCO also took the #4 spot in our “Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UCO is $16,562 for bachelor’s degree mortuary science students.

Read more about Funeral & Mortuary Science at UCO

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science landed the #2 spot on the list. Cincinnati, Ohio is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s mortuary science degrees to 38 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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#3

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Minneapolis, Minnesota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is a large school located in Minneapolis, Minnesota that handed out 26 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMN Twin Cities, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is $17,740 for Bachelor’s Degree Mortuary Science students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The low student loan default rate of 2.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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#4

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 #4 for the Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s. Wayne State is located in Detroit, Michigan and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 24 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees to qualified students.

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 University is $13,965 for bachelor’s degree mortuary science students.

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#5

Point Park University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Point Park University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Point Park University is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Point Park, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Point Park University is $21,470 for bachelor’s degree mortuary science students.

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#6

Mid-America College of Funeral Service

Jeffersonville, Indiana
#6 in overall quality

Mid-America College of Funeral Service landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Mortuary Science Schools for a Bachelor’s ranking. This small school is located in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and it awarded 15 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees in 2019-2020.

Mid-America College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #6 on our “Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Mid-America College of Funeral Service is $18,370 for bachelor’s degree mortuary science students.

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

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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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