General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

If you plan to study general funeral service & mortuary science, take a look at what Southern Illinois University Carbondale has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

SIUC is located in Carbondale, Illinois and approximately 11,366 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science section at the bottom of this page.

SIUC General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in General Mortuary Science

Online Classes Are Available at SIUC

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

For those who are interested in distance learning, SIUC does offer online courses in general mortuary science for the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

SIUC General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science Rankings

The general mortuary science major at SIUC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

General Mortuary Science Student Demographics at SIUC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the general mortuary science majors at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

SIUC General Funeral Service & Mortuary Science Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 17% of general mortuary science bachelor's degrees went to men and 83% went to women.

About 52% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in general mortuary science at SIUC are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 13% more racial-ethnic minorities in its general mortuary science bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a bachelor's in general mortuary science.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	12
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Related Majors

Careers That General Mortuary Science Grads May Go Into

A degree in general mortuary science can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Directors	1,350	$72,280

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Mark Jaroski under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.