If you plan on getting your master's degree in taxation, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #95 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Taxation Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 50 master's degrees in taxation during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 taxation students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other 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.
Student Debt - How easy is it for taxation to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized taxation related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for taxation students working on their master's degree.
The 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 Taxation Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region.
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Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in taxation has to look into Weber State University. WSU is a very large public university located in the city of Ogden.
Master's students who receive their degree from the taxation program make about $64,434 in their early career salary.
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.
by our College Data Analytics Team
