2025 Best General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science Associate Degree Schools
34Colleges in the United States
1,526Associate Degrees
If you pursue a associate degree in general funeral service & mortuary science, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #90 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 34 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for general funeral service & mortuary science students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,526 associate degrees in general funeral service & mortuary science during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of general funeral service & mortuary science for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality general mortuary science program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general funeral service & mortuary science students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of general funeral service & mortuary science students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general funeral service & mortuary science related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general funeral service & mortuary science students working on their associate degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science Associate Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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.