Funeral Service and Mortuary Science

2,451 students earn a funeral service and mortuary science credential each year across 70 US colleges. Earnings below are the median for each school's graduates one and five years after finishing; debt is the median federal loan balance at completion.

Typical earnings, 1 year out: $52,829
Typical earnings, 5 years out: $54,270

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Bachelor's programs — 11 colleges

CollegeGrads / yearEarnings 1 yearEarnings 5 yearsDebt

1University of Minnesota-Twin CitiesMinneapolis, Minnesota35$60,3671 year out$69,720$24,875 2Mid-America College of Funeral ServiceJeffersonville, Indiana16$56,4271 year out—$24,203 3Wayne State UniversityDetroit, Michigan22$52,8291 year out—$23,648 4University of Central OklahomaEdmond, Oklahoma23$45,8041 year out$50,301$27,143 5Cincinnati College of Mortuary ScienceCincinnati, Ohio56$44,1101 year out$54,270$25,956 6Southern Illinois University-CarbondaleCarbondale, Illinois23$33,6881 year out$57,664$31,000 7SUNY College of Technology at CantonCanton, New York16—1 year out——8Point Park UniversityPittsburgh, Pennsylvania8—1 year out——9Gannon UniversityErie, Pennsylvania2—1 year out——10Cypress CollegeCypress, California1—1 year out——11Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science IncPittsburgh, Pennsylvania——1 year out$46,315—

Associate programs — 59 colleges

CollegeGrads / yearEarnings 1 yearEarnings 5 yearsDebt

1FINE Mortuary CollegeNorwood, Massachusetts20$52,5801 year out$63,568$34,677 2Arapahoe Community CollegeLittleton, Colorado41$50,9531 year out$42,016$22,675 3Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science IncPittsburgh, Pennsylvania75$50,3401 year out$55,103$21,812 4Worsham College of Mortuary ScienceWheeling, Illinois87$50,0431 year out$61,870$15,333 5Jefferson State Community CollegeBirmingham, Alabama31$49,5661 year out$46,158—6Brightpoint Community CollegeChester, Virginia36$49,2051 year out$55,507—7St Petersburg CollegeSt. Petersburg, Florida28$48,9291 year out—$22,898 8American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral ServiceNew York, New York89$47,9821 year out$62,994$28,400 9Commonwealth Institute of Funeral ServiceHouston, Texas147$46,2681 year out$46,118$11,625 10John A Gupton CollegeNashville, Tennessee55$46,1411 year out$48,547$17,257 11Goodwin UniversityEast Hartford, Connecticut25$45,2611 year out—$29,243 12Nassau Community CollegeGarden City, New York32$44,6951 year out$73,839$11,942 13Vincennes UniversityVincennes, Indiana17$44,5811 year out—$15,625 14Fayetteville Technical Community CollegeFayetteville, North Carolina65$44,5211 year out$56,114$21,719 15Dallas Institute of Funeral ServiceDallas, Texas104$40,9621 year out$48,032$20,000 16Northampton County Area Community CollegeBethlehem, Pennsylvania16$39,9491 year out—$18,500 17Chandler-Gilbert Community CollegeChandler, Arizona24$39,5491 year out—$9,682 18Tidewater Community CollegeNorfolk, Virginia21$39,4311 year out$66,050—19Ivy Tech Community CollegeIndianapolis, Indiana19$37,5061 year out—$13,219 20Piedmont Technical CollegeGreenwood, South Carolina15$35,6931 year out$51,554—21Mid-America College of Funeral ServiceJeffersonville, Indiana75$35,5641 year out—$20,437 22Saint Louis Community CollegeBridgeton, Missouri11$32,9641 year out——23Gupton Jones College of Funeral ServiceDecatur, Georgia55$23,2931 year out$44,260$20,000 24Ogeechee Technical CollegeStatesboro, Georgia38—1 year out$56,067—25Miami Dade CollegeMiami, Florida35—1 year out——26San Antonio CollegeSan Antonio, Texas33—1 year out——27American River CollegeSacramento, California31—1 year out——28Cypress CollegeCypress, California30—1 year out$55,421—29Northeast Texas Community CollegeMount Pleasant, Texas29—1 year out——30Kansas City Kansas Community CollegeKansas City, Kansas28—1 year out$48,679—31Milwaukee Area Technical CollegeMilwaukee, Wisconsin27—1 year out——32Delgado Community CollegeNew Orleans, Louisiana26—1 year out——33Salt Lake Community CollegeSalt Lake City, Utah26—1 year out——34Community College of Baltimore CountyBaltimore, Maryland24—1 year out——35Des Moines Area Community CollegeAnkeny, Iowa21—1 year out——36Lake Washington Institute of TechnologyKirkland, Washington21—1 year out——37Mercer County Community CollegeWest Windsor, New Jersey20—1 year out——38Mt Hood Community CollegeGresham, Oregon18—1 year out——39City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X CollegeChicago, Illinois16—1 year out——40East Mississippi Community CollegeScooba, Mississippi16—1 year out——41Eastwick College-HackensackHackensack, New Jersey14—1 year out——42Terra State Community CollegeFremont, Ohio14—1 year out——43Cincinnati College of Mortuary ScienceCincinnati, Ohio13—1 year out$50,546—44Arkansas State University-Mountain HomeMountain Home, Arkansas12—1 year out$28,677—45University of Arkansas Hope-TexarkanaHope, Arkansas11—1 year out——46Florida State College at JacksonvilleJacksonville, Florida11—1 year out——47Cape Cod Community CollegeWest Barnstable, Massachusetts11—1 year out——48Northwest Mississippi Community CollegeSenatobia, Mississippi9—1 year out——49Hudson Valley Community CollegeTroy, New York8—1 year out——50Carl Sandburg CollegeGalesburg, Illinois6—1 year out——51University of the District of ColumbiaWashington, District of Columbia4—1 year out——52North Central State CollegeMansfield, Ohio4—1 year out——53Wayne County Community College DistrictDetroit, Michigan3—1 year out——54Luzerne County Community CollegeNanticoke, Pennsylvania3—1 year out——55Southwest Tennessee Community CollegeMemphis, Tennessee3—1 year out——56Columbus Technical CollegeColumbus, Georgia1—1 year out——57North Shore Community CollegeDanvers, Massachusetts1—1 year out——58Northwest State Community CollegeArchbold, Ohio1—1 year out——59Mesa Community CollegeMesa, Arizona——1 year out$44,851—

Certificate programs — 23 colleges

CollegeGrads / yearEarnings 1 yearEarnings 5 yearsDebt

1Fayetteville Technical Community CollegeFayetteville, North Carolina45$51,5221 year out—$23,668 2Des Moines Area Community CollegeAnkeny, Iowa43$49,3551 year out$56,635$25,000 3Commonwealth Institute of Funeral ServiceHouston, Texas19$47,4241 year out——4Worsham College of Mortuary ScienceWheeling, Illinois13$44,1941 year out$59,188$15,366 5Antilles School of Technical CareersSan Juan, Puerto Rico28$14,5261 year out$17,063—6Jefferson State Community CollegeBirmingham, Alabama86—1 year out$47,877—7Piedmont Technical CollegeGreenwood, South Carolina86—1 year out——8Northeast Texas Community CollegeMount Pleasant, Texas47—1 year out——9NUC UniversityBayamon, Puerto Rico36—1 year out——10University of Arkansas Hope-TexarkanaHope, Arkansas30—1 year out——11St Petersburg CollegeSt. Petersburg, Florida25—1 year out——12John A Gupton CollegeNashville, Tennessee21—1 year out——13Dallas Institute of Funeral ServiceDallas, Texas21—1 year out——14Delgado Community CollegeNew Orleans, Louisiana20—1 year out——15Mercer County Community CollegeWest Windsor, New Jersey20—1 year out——16Florida State College at JacksonvilleJacksonville, Florida15—1 year out——17San Antonio CollegeSan Antonio, Texas11—1 year out——18Arkansas State University-Mountain HomeMountain Home, Arkansas10—1 year out——19Miami Dade CollegeMiami, Florida6—1 year out——20Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science IncPittsburgh, Pennsylvania5—1 year out——21Liceo de Arte-Dise-O y ComercioCaguas, Puerto Rico3—1 year out——22Community College of VermontMontpelier, Vermont2—1 year out——23Saint Louis Community CollegeBridgeton, Missouri1—1 year out——

US Department of Education College Scorecard field-of-study data (4-digit CIP). Graduates are conferrals in the most recent IPEDS year; earnings cover federally-aided completers who are working and not enrolled; medians for small programs are privacy-suppressed (—).