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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Taxation Major in Connecticut” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 1,547 people earned their degree in taxation, making the major the 366th most popular in the United States.

Across Connecticut, there were 17 taxation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 taxation graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,328 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Taxation Major in Connecticut” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in taxation. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in taxation.

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

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

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

1

University of New Haven
West Haven, Connecticut

#8 overall quality in Connecticut

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Taxation Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Haven landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in West Haven, Connecticut, and it awarded 16 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%.

Read more about Taxation at University of New Haven

2

Fairfield University
Fairfield, Connecticut

#3 overall quality in Connecticut

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Taxation Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, Fairfield University landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Fairfield, Connecticut, and it awarded 0 masters’s taxation degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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 Fairfield U

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Taxation in the New England 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.