2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Taxation in Louisiana

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Taxation Major in Louisiana” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 1,547 people earned their degree in taxation, making the major the 220th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, taxation graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $77,471 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across Louisiana, there were 1 taxation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 taxation graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,232 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Taxation Major in Louisiana” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in taxation. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their taxation program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Taxation Major in Louisiana

The colleges and universities below are the best for louisiana master’s degree taxation students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Taxation in Louisiana

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University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

#17 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Orleans. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Taxation Major in Louisiana list. University of New Orleans is a medium-sized school located in New Orleans, Louisiana that handed out 1 masters’s taxation degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of New Orleans Taxation Report

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Tulane University of Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

#1 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tulane University of Louisiana. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Taxation Major in Louisiana. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s taxation students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Taxation at Tulane University of Louisiana

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Taxation in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Taxation

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.