Funeral Direction/Service at Wayne State University

If you plan to study funeral direction/service, take a look at what Wayne State University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Wayne State is located in Detroit, Michigan and has a total student population of 26,241.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Funeral Direction/Service section at the bottom of this page.

Wayne State Funeral Direction/Service Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Funeral Direction/Service

Wayne State Funeral Direction/Service Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the funeral direction/service progam at Wayne State compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The funeral direction/service major at Wayne State is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Funeral Direction/Service. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
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Most Popular Funeral Direction Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	1
Best Funeral Direction Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	1
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Best Value Funeral Direction Bachelor’s Degree Schools	2
Most Focused Funeral Direction Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	3
Most Popular Funeral Direction Trade Schools	3
Best Funeral Direction Trade Schools	3
Best Value Funeral Direction Schools	9
Most Focused Funeral Direction Trade Schools	13

Funeral Direction/Service Student Demographics at Wayne State

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the funeral direction/service majors at Wayne State University.

Wayne State Funeral Direction/Service Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 30 funeral direction/service majors earned their bachelor's degree from Wayne State. Of these graduates, 17% were men and 83% were women.

About 73% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in funeral direction/service at Wayne State are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 7% more racial-ethnic minorities in its funeral direction/service bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Wayne State University with a bachelor's in funeral direction/service.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	22
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Wayne State also has a doctoral program available in funeral direction/service. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

Careers That Funeral Direction/Service Grads May Go Into

A degree in funeral direction/service can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MI, the home state for Wayne State University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Directors	690	$63,280
Funeral Service Managers	370	$113,190

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Del arte under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.