With a career in mortuary science, you’ll guide individuals through the final phase of life with skilled professionalism, honoring the deceased with dignity and respecting the wishes of their family. While pre-mortuary science is not a major itself, we’ll match you with a degree program and the necessary coursework required to prepare you for admission into a school of mortuary science.
This program will be a good fit if you:
- Have strong communication and critical thinking skills
- Are sympathetic but emotionally strong
- Have great time management skills
- Have strong business and organization skills
- Are detail-oriented
- Are compassionate and caring
- Are understanding and an active listener
With a mortuary science degree, you could work as a:
- Mortician
- Funeral director
- Embalmer
- Funeral service worker
- Coroner
Students in our mortuary science program often major in: