Graduate Tax Program
This program is all tax. Class work is based directly on the Internal Revenue Code and Treasury Regulations. If you want the best tax education available anywhere, you have come to the right place. (If you are interested in another business degree, see the Daniels College of Business Web site.)
We can call our program the best because every year our students compete in the national tax challenge, a competition now sponsored by Deloitte & Touche where students test their tax knowledge against teams from other schools. In the 18 years the tax challenge has been in existence, our team has placed first in graduate-level competition six times, second seven times, and third once. No other school even comes close to that record.
And where it really counts—in the job market—the program’s reputation carries our students far. Our placement rate is virtually 100 percent. The Big Four accounting firms and selected local firms recruit on campus, and nearly every student who participates in recruitment in the fall gets job offers—even before the fall quarter grades are posted. The LL.M. in taxation provides attorneys with a special advantage in the competitive legal marketplace.
Because the program is a joint LL.M. and M.T. program, accountants and lawyers attend the same classes. This is excellent preparation for tax accountants, who are expected to be proficient with legal materials such as the Internal Revenue Code, regulations, cases, and rulings. Tax lawyers benefit from learning the accounting side of tax practice.
And why come to Denver? As long as you are taking a year out of your life to earn a graduate degree, it may as well be in a great location. The city of Denver qualifies on all counts and is regularly listed among the best cities in America in which to live and work.
