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Best Value Funeral & Mortuary Science Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

2023 Best Value Funeral & Mortuary Science Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$15,502 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$35,683 Avg Salary

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.

Check out the mortuary science associate degree programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Associate Degree School

#1

Arapahoe Community College

Littleton, CO

Our analysis found Arapahoe Community College to be the best value school for funeral & mortuary science students who want to pursue a associate degree in the Rocky Mountains Region . Arapahoe Community College is a fairly large public school located in the large 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.

Full Funeral & Mortuary Science at Arapahoe Community College Report

Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Colleges by State

Explore the best funeral & mortuary science schools for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains region.

State Degrees Awarded
Colorado 43
Utah 14

Funeral & Mortuary Science is one of 4 different types of trade school programs to choose from.

Mortuary Science Focus Areas

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

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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