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Best Value Funeral & Mortuary Science Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey

2023 Best Value Funeral & Mortuary Science Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$17,424 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$35,683 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Associate Degree School for You

Funeral & Mortuary Science is the #23 most popular major in New Jersey with 57 degrees and certificates awarded in 2021-2022.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for trade school students. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Trade College Search has created its Best Value Funeral & Mortuary Science Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey ranking.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Funeral & Mortuary Science Associate Degree Colleges.

Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Associate Degree School

Our analysis found Eastwick College - Hackensack to be the best value school for funeral & mortuary science students who want to pursue a associate degree in New Jersey. Eastwick College - Hackensack is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the large suburb of Hackensack.

Eastwick College - Hackensack undergraduate students pay an average of $17,424 in in-state tuition and fees each year. The average amount in student loans that mortuary science majors at Eastwick College - Hackensack take out while working on their Associate Degree is $22,483.

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Best Value Funeral & Mortuary Science Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Funeral & Mortuary Science Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 141
Pennsylvania 194
Maryland 24
District of Columbia 6

One of 4 majors within the trade school area of study, funeral & mortuary science has other similar majors worth exploring.

Mortuary Science Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science 1,800
Funeral Direction/Service 278
Mortuary Science & Embalming/Embalmer 66
Other Funeral Service & Mortuary Science 42

Majors Similar to Mortuary Science

Related Major Annual Graduates
Cosmetology 124,611
Culinary Arts 22,075
Casino Operations and Services 385
Other Personal & Culinary Services 95

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

  • 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 the rest 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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