Guaranteed jobs: Mortuary schools see jump in enrollment amid funeral industry worker shortage
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Colleges specializing in funeral service education are growing enrollment amid a dearth of workers in the funeral services industry.
"The shortage is so serious right now that there's a 90% job placement rate for graduates of these programs," said Leili McMurrough, program director at Worsham College of Mortuary Science in Wheeling, Illinois, one of the nation's oldest mortuary schools dating back to 1911.
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