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Best Value Funeral & Mortuary Science Associate Degree Schools in Tennessee

2023 Best Value Funeral & Mortuary Science Associate Degree Schools in Tennessee

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$11,735 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$35,683 Avg Salary

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

Funeral & Mortuary Science is the #26 most popular major in Tennessee with 58 degrees and certificates awarded in 2021-2022.

With all the trade school programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent.

The Best Value Funeral & Mortuary Science Associate Degree Schools in Tennessee ranking is one of many tools that Trade College Search has developed to help you make your educational decision.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used 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

#1

John A Gupton College

Nashville, TN

Our analysis found John A Gupton College to be the best value school for funeral & mortuary science students who want to pursue a associate degree in Tennessee. John A Gupton College is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Nashville.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at John A Gupton College are $11,735 a year. Mortuary Science majors at John A Gupton College take out an average of $13,174 in student loans while working on their Associate Degree.

Full Funeral & Mortuary Science at John A Gupton College Report

Best Value Funeral & Mortuary Science Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Funeral & Mortuary Science Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 135
South Carolina 71
Arkansas 64
North Carolina 141
Florida 106
Virginia 40
Louisiana 25
Alabama 81
Mississippi 18

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

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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