by our College Data Analytics Team
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 Mortuary Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Plains States region, there were 128 funeral and mortuary science graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,584 and $18,862 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 55 funeral and mortuary science graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,723 and $22,140 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in funeral and mortuary science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their funeral and mortuary science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major in the Plains States Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major in the Plains States Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kansas City Kansas Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major in the Plains States Region list. Kansas City Kansas Community College is a small public school situated in Kansas City, Kansas. It awarded 15 associates’s mortuary science degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Kansas City Kansas Community College Funeral & Mortuary Science Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Des Moines Area Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major in the Plains States Region. Des Moines Area Community College is a large public school situated in Ankeny, Iowa. It awarded 27 associates’s mortuary science degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Funeral & Mortuary Science at Des Moines Area Community College
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Louis Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major in the Plains States Region list. Saint Louis Community College is a fairly large public school situated in Saint Louis, Missouri. It awarded 12 associates’s mortuary science degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Funeral & Mortuary Science at Saint Louis Community College
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Barton County Community College landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Great Bend, Kansas, this small public school awarded 1 degrees to qualified associates’s mortuary science students in 2020-2021.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northeast Community College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major in the Plains States Region list. Northeast Community College is a medium-sized public school situated in Norfolk, Nebraska. It awarded 0 associates’s mortuary science degrees 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%.
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