Funeral Service & Mortuary Science
Contains Stem Majors
Add ComparisonIn 2021, the locations with the highest concentration of Funeral Service & Mortuary Science degree recipients are Houston, TX, Pittsburgh, PA, and Fayetteville, NC. In 2021, the locations with a relatively high number of Funeral Service & Mortuary Science degree recipients are Wheeling, IL, Norwood, MA, and Finneytown, OH. The most common degree awarded to students studying Funeral Service & Mortuary Science is a associates degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Funeral Service & Mortuary Science and the types of students that study this field. Commonwealth Institute of Funeral Service (366261) awards the most degrees in Funeral Service & Mortuary Science in the US, but Gupton Jones College of Funeral Service and American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Funeral Service & Mortuary Science.
Tuition costs for Funeral Service & Mortuary Science majors are, on average, $5,190 for in-state public colleges, and $19,982 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Funeral Service & Mortuary Science programs are Public, 2-year institutions (47 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Public, 2-year (984 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Funeral Service & Mortuary Science, is Public, 2-year (984 completions in 2021).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Funeral Service & Mortuary Science programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
Commonwealth Institute of Funeral Service (366261) has the most Funeral Service & Mortuary Science degree recipients, with 183 degrees awarded in 2021.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Funeral Service & Mortuary Science.
Out of all institutions that offer Funeral Service & Mortuary Science programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Gupton Jones College of Funeral Service has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Funeral Service & Mortuary Science, with 100%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Funeral Service & Mortuary Science by year.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest growth in degrees awarded for Funeral Service & Mortuary Science.
Information on the businesses and industries that employ Personal & Culinary Services graduates and on wages and locations for those in the field.
The average salary for Personal & Culinary Services majors is $56,478 and the most common occupations are Chefs & head cooks, Cooks, and Morticians, undertakers, & funeral directors.
The industry that employs the most Personal & Culinary Services majors is Restaurants & Food Services, though the highest paying industry, by average wage, is Offices of physicians.
The average salary for Personal & Culinary Services majors is $56,478 and the most common occupations are Chefs & head cooks, Cooks, and Morticians, undertakers, & funeral directors.
This chart shows the average annual salaries of the most common occupations for Personal & Culinary Services majors.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States colored by the average salary of Personal & Culinary Services majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Personal & Culinary Services majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
The most common occupations Personal & Culinary Services majors, by number of employees, are Chefs & head cooks, Cooks, and Morticians, undertakers, & funeral directors.
Compared to other majors, there are an unusually high number of Personal & Culinary Services majors working as Morticians, undertakers, & funeral directors, Chefs & head cooks, and Embalmers & funeral attendants.
The highest paid occupations by median income for Personal & Culinary Services majors are Chief executives & legislators, Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, and Industrial production managers.
The number of Personal & Culinary Services graduates in the workforce has been declining at a rate of 1.24%, from 53,156 in 2020 to 52,499 in 2021.
The largest single share of Personal & Culinary Services graduates go on to work as Chefs & head cooks (16.9%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in Personal & Culinary Services by share of the total number of graduates.
The most common industries that employ Personal & Culinary Services majors, by number of employees, are Restaurants & Food Services, Funeral homes, & cemeteries & crematories , and Traveler accommodation.
The highest paying industries of Personal & Culinary Services majors, by average wage, are Offices of physicians, Computer Systems Design, and Waste management & remediation services.
The number of Personal & Culinary Services graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 1.24%, from 53,156 in 2020 to 52,499 in 2021.
The industry which employs the most Personal & Culinary Services graduates by share is Restaurants & Food Services, followed by Funeral homes, & cemeteries & crematories . This visualization shows the industries that hire those who major in Personal & Culinary Services.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of Personal & Culinary Services majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Personal & Culinary Services majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
Demographic information for those who earn a degree in Personal & Culinary Services in the United States.
The average age of a person in the workforce with a degree in Personal & Culinary Services is 38.7.
The most common degree type these workers hold is a Associates Degree. Female employees are more likely to hold Personal & Culinary Services degrees, and White students are the most common race/ethnicty group awarded degrees in Personal & Culinary Services (1,517 students).
This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in Personal & Culinary Services. The most common ages of employees with this major are 32 and 30 years old, which represent 4.66% and 4.48% of the population, respectively.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Funeral Service & Mortuary Science are Associates Degree, 1 to 2 Year Postsecondary Certificate, and Bachelors Degree.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Personal & Culinary Services are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Funeral Service & Mortuary Science.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Funeral Service & Mortuary Science for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Associates Degree recipients in Funeral Service & Mortuary Science.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in France that hold Personal & Culinary Services degrees (7.54 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Mexico (1,571 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Funeral Service & Mortuary Science field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Funeral Service & Mortuary Science majors need many skills, but most especially Social Perceptiveness. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Funeral Service & Mortuary Science majors need more than the average amount of Operation and Control, Operation Monitoring, Social Perceptiveness, Service Orientation, Management of Financial Resources, Management of Material Resources, Quality Control Analysis, Negotiation, Coordination, Management of Personnel Resources, Persuasion, Operations Analysis, Time Management, Troubleshooting, Speaking, Active Listening, Instructing, Monitoring, Writing, Systems Analysis, Learning Strategies, Systems Evaluation, Science, Mathematics, Critical Thinking, Judgment and Decision Making, Active Learning, Complex Problem Solving, Reading Comprehension, Technology Design, Equipment Selection, Programming, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, and Repairing.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Funeral Service & Mortuary Science majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Operation and Control is very distinctive for majors, but the Social Perceptiveness, Active Listening, Service Orientation, Speaking, Coordination, Writing, Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking, Time Management, Negotiation, Monitoring, Persuasion, Management of Personnel Resources, Active Learning, Complex Problem Solving, Judgment and Decision Making, Instructing, Operation Monitoring, Systems Analysis, Systems Evaluation, Learning Strategies, Management of Material Resources, Operations Analysis, Quality Control Analysis, Management of Financial Resources, Mathematics, Operation and Control, Science, Troubleshooting, Technology Design, Programming, Equipment Selection, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, and Repairing are the three most important skills for people in the field.
