2023 Best Tax Law/Taxation Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Tax Law/Taxation for a Master’s” ranking.

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 Southwest region, there were 19 tax law/taxation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Tax Law/Taxation for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in tax law/taxation. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent tax law/taxation programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the tax law/taxation program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Tax Law/Taxation for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree vets studying tax law/taxation.

Top 2 Best Tax Law/Taxation Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region

1

University of Houston
Houston, Texas

1,382 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Tax Law/Taxation for a Master’s list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s tax law/taxation degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our southwest region master’s degree vets studying tax law/taxation list, UH has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Tax Law/Taxation Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 1,382 of the 47,090 students enrolled at UH were GI Bill® students, of which 730 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,264. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. UH does offer credit for military training for eligible students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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%.

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Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

327 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Tax Law/Taxation for a Master’s list. SMU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Dallas, Texas. It awarded 7 masters’s tax law/taxation degrees in 2020-2021.

SMU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Tax Law/Taxation Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.Of the 12,373 students enrolled at SMU, 327 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 215 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $15,612. To help with additional expenses, 103 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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• Best Tax Law/Taxation Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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).
• Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
• 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.
• **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
• 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.