2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Funeral & Mortuary Science in the Far Western US Region

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Funeral & Mortuary Science is the 196th most popular major in the country with 2,354 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, funeral and mortuary science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,476 and had an average of $21,232 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 104 funeral and mortuary science graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,653 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 92 funeral and mortuary science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,803 and $17,868 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in funeral and mortuary science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in funeral and mortuary science.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region associate degree mortuary science students.

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Funeral & Mortuary Science in the Far Western US Region

1

Lake Washington Institute of Technology
Kirkland, Washington

Top 25% overall quality in Far Western US

$37,653 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lake Washington Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Lake Washington Institute of Technology is a small public school situated in Kirkland, Washington. It awarded 18 associates’s mortuary science degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Cypress College
Cypress, California

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Cypress College landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Cypress, California, and it awarded 37 associates’s mortuary science degrees in 2020-2021.

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3

Mt. Hood Community College
Gresham, Oregon

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mt. Hood Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Gresham, Oregon, this medium-sized public school awarded 17 degrees to qualified associates’s mortuary science students in 2020-2021.

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4

American River College
Sacramento, California

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, American River College landed the #4 spot on the list. American River is a large public school situated in Sacramento, California. It awarded 20 associates’s mortuary science degrees in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Funeral & 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.