by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major in Illinois” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 2,354 people earned their degree in funeral and mortuary science, making the major the 196th most popular in the United States. 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 Illinois, there were 135 funeral and mortuary science graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,256 and $21,348 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 funeral and mortuary science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in funeral and mortuary science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major in Illinois” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major in Illinois”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mortuary Science Major in Illinois list. 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.
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