an associate degree in funeral & mortuary science is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #72 out of 328 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Georgia to determine which ones were the best for funeral & mortuary science students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 94 associate degrees in funeral & mortuary science to qualified students.
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Early-Career Earnings
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to funeral & mortuary science students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other funeral & mortuary science students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt funeral & mortuary science students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized funeral & mortuary science related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for funeral & mortuary science students working on their associate degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Associate Degree Schools in Georgia ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Gupton Jones College of Funeral Service is one of the best schools in the United States for getting an associate degree in funeral & mortuary science. Located in the large suburb of Decatur, Gupton Jones College of Funeral Service is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
Associate students who receive their degree from the mortuary science program earn around $23,293 for their early career.
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.
by our College Data Analytics Team