by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Taxation Major in Illinois for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 Illinois, there were 65 taxation graduates with average earnings and debt of $100,082 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 65 taxation graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,317 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Taxation Major in Illinois for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in taxation. To top this list, a school must have a successful taxation program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Taxation Major in Illinois for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois master’s degree taxation students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend DePaul University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Taxation Major in Illinois for a Master’s. This large school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 54 masters’s taxation degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Illinois University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Taxation Major in Illinois for a Master’s list. Northern Illinois University is a fairly large public school situated in Dekalb, Illinois. It awarded 11 masters’s taxation degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Taxation Major in Illinois for a Master’s list. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a large school located in Champaign, Illinois that handed out 0 masters’s taxation degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Benedictine University. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Taxation Major in Illinois for a Master’s. Benedictine University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Lisle, Illinois. It awarded 0 masters’s taxation degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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