Tax Law
Add ComparisonIn 2022, the locations with the highest concentration of Tax Law degree recipients are Washington, DC, New York, NY, and Boston, MA. In 2022, the locations with a relatively high number of Tax Law degree recipients are Evanston, IL, Washington, DC, and Gainesville, FL. The most common degree awarded to students studying Tax Law is a masters degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Tax Law and the types of students that study this field. Georgetown University awards the most degrees in Tax Law in the US, but Villanova University (216597) and Georgetown University have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Tax Law.
Tuition costs for Tax Law majors are, on average, $11,100 for in-state public colleges, and $54,996 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Tax Law programs are Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above institutions (22 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above (799 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Tax Law, is Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above (799 completions in 2022).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Tax Law programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
Georgetown University has the most Tax Law degree recipients, with 175 degrees awarded in 2022.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Tax Law.
Out of all institutions that offer Tax Law programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Villanova University (216597) has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Tax Law, with 2.98%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest growth in degrees awarded for Tax Law.
Demographic information for those who earn a degree in Legal in the United States.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Tax Law are Masters Degree, Postbaccalaureate Certificate, and Post-Masters Certificate.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Legal are Bachelors Degree, Professional degree, and Masters Degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Tax Law.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Tax Law for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Masters Degree recipients in Tax Law.
White Male students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Bulgaria that hold Legal degrees (5.57 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Philippines (756 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Tax Law field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Tax Law majors need many skills, but most especially Speaking. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Tax Law majors need more than the average amount of N/A.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Tax Law majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of N/A is very distinctive for majors, but the Speaking, Reading Comprehension, and Active Listening are the three most important skills for people in the field.
