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2023 Best Value Funeral & Mortuary Science Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Associate Degree School for You
Funeral & Mortuary Science is the #34 most popular major in the country with 2,186 degrees and certificates awarded in 2021-2022.
Today's trade school students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 the Rocky Mountains Region ranking.
When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.
Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Associate Degree School
Our 2023 rankings named Arapahoe Community College the best value school in the Rocky Mountains Region for funeral & mortuary science students working on their associate degree. Arapahoe Community College is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Littleton.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Arapahoe Community College are $15,502 a year. While working on their Associate Degree, mortuary science majors at Arapahoe Community College accumulate an average of around $16,313 in student debt.
Request InformationBest Funeral & Mortuary Science Colleges by State
Explore the best funeral & mortuary science colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains region.
State | Degrees Awarded |
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Colorado | 43 |
Utah | 14 |
Majors Related to Mortuary Science
Funeral & Mortuary Science is one of 4 different types of trade school programs to choose from.
Mortuary Science Focus Areas
Major | Annual Graduates |
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General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science | 1,800 |
Funeral Direction/Service | 278 |
Mortuary Science & Embalming/Embalmer | 66 |
Other Funeral Service & Mortuary Science | 42 |
Most Popular Related Majors
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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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.