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2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major

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211 Degrees Awarded
$40,731 Avg Salary
Schools for a Bachelor's Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major” 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.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 211 funeral and mortuary science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major” ranking, we looked at 10 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major”.

Top 10 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Funeral & Mortuary Science

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major. Located in Cincinnati, Ohio, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 68 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s mortuary science students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Funeral & Mortuary Science at Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science

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Out of the 10 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Mid-America College of Funeral Service landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and it awarded 28 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees in 2020-2021.

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 full report on Funeral & Mortuary Science at Mid-America College of Funeral Service

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Point Park University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Out of the 10 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Point Park University landed the #3 spot on the list. Point Park University is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Point Park Funeral & Mortuary Science Report

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Oklahoma. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major. This fairly large school is located in Edmond, Oklahoma, and it awarded 19 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees in 2020-2021.

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

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major. Southern Illinois University Carbondale is located in Carbondale, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 20 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees to qualified students.

Full SIUC Funeral & Mortuary Science Report

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SUNY Canton
Canton, New York

SUNY Canton did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major ranking, coming in at #6. SUNY Canton is a small public school situated in Canton, New York. It awarded 4 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Funeral & Mortuary Science at SUNY Canton

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Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan

Wayne State University landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major ranking. Wayne State University is located in Detroit, Michigan and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 30 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees to qualified students.

Full Wayne State Funeral & Mortuary Science Report

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Cypress College
Cypress, California

Cypress College came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major ranking. Cypress College is located in Cypress, California and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 8 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Funeral & Mortuary Science at Cypress College

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Gannon University
Erie, Pennsylvania

Gannon University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major ranking, coming in at #9. This small school is located in Erie, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Funeral & Mortuary Science at Gannon

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University of Minnesota - Twin Cities landed the #10 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major ranking. UMN Twin Cities is a large school located in Minneapolis, Minnesota that handed out 18 bachelors’s mortuary science degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.

Read full report on Funeral & Mortuary Science at UMN Twin Cities

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