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2023 Best Value Funeral & Mortuary Science Schools in Mississippi

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$3,470 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Funeral & Mortuary Science School for You

Funeral & Mortuary Science is the #156 most popular major in Mississippi with 18 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Funeral & Mortuary Science Schools in Mississippi ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Mississippi to see which ones offered the best value programs for mortuary science students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Funeral & Mortuary Science Schools in Mississippi

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for mortuary science majors pursuing a .

Best Mississippi Schools for Affordable Quality in Funeral & Mortuary Science

$3,430 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Northwest Mississippi Community College to be the best value school for funeral and mortuary science students who want to pursue a degree in Mississippi. NWCC is a medium-sized public school located in the town of Senatobia.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at NWCC are $3,430 per year.

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$3,510 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Holmes Community College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Funeral & Mortuary Science Schools in Mississippi list. Holmes Community College is a small public school located in the rural area of Goodman.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Holmes Community College are $3,510 per year.

Holmes Community College also made our Best Funeral & Mortuary Science Schools in Mississippi list, coming in at #5.

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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
Virginia 40
North Carolina 74
Florida 73
Tennessee 41
South Carolina 7
Louisiana 11
Arkansas 25
Alabama 20

Funeral & Mortuary Science is one of 4 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Cosmetology 107,895
Culinary Arts 19,806
Casino Operations and Services 192
Other Personal & Culinary Services 81

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools 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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