2024 Best Tax Law/Taxation Master's Degree Schools in Illinois
3Colleges in Illinois
47Master's Degrees
If you plan on getting your master's degree in tax law/taxation, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #192 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for tax law/taxation students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 47 master's degrees in tax law/taxation during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Tax Law/Taxation School for Your Master's Degree
The tax law/taxation master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality tax law/taxation program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on tax law/taxation students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other tax law/taxation students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized tax law/taxation related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for tax law/taxation students working on their master's degree.
The tax law/taxation school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Tax Law/Taxation Master's Degree Schools in Illinois.
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Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest of our data about colleges.