2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Tax Law/Taxation Major in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Tax Law/Taxation Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 777 people earned their degree in tax law/taxation, making the major the 496th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 129 tax law/taxation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 125 tax law/taxation graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Tax Law/Taxation Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in tax law/taxation. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in tax law/taxation.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Tax Law/Taxation Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree tax law/taxation students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Tax Law/Taxation in the Southeast Region

1

University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

#9 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Florida. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Tax Law/Taxation Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Gainesville, Florida, this large public school handed out 75 degrees to qualified masters’s tax law/taxation students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Tax Law/Taxation at University of Florida

2

University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida

#18 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Miami. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Tax Law/Taxation Major in the Southeast Region list. University of Miami is located in Coral Gables, Florida and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 19 masters’s tax law/taxation degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.

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3

The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Tax Law/Taxation Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Alabama landed the #3 spot on the list. The University of Alabama is a public institution located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The school has a large population, and it awarded 31 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Tax Law/Taxation at UA

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Tax Law/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.