New York University LL.M. in Taxation in 2027

New York University (NYU) School of Law offers its 24-credit Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation as one year of full-time study on campus, or as a part-time degree built on evening classes in Manhattan with up to half the credits taken through recorded courses, so you can fit the same tax curriculum around a job.

NYU Law's Graduate Tax Program dates to 1945, and the LL.M. in Taxation is its core degree. You'll take 24 credits, and 20 of them are in advanced tax coursework. You assemble the schedule yourself from more than 50 graduate tax classes. Those classes are taught by 10 full-time faculty and more than 40 adjunct instructors.

Since 2022 the program has been directed by a professor who came to NYU Law after serving as dean of the Washington & Lee School of Law. If you're a full-time student, you're assigned an advisor from the permanent tax faculty, who acts as a mentor, and luncheon lectures and events run through the year.

One student described the cohort as a mix of people with accounting backgrounds and people whose undergraduate degrees were in all sorts of other fields.

NYU asks for excellent academic credentials and a strong interest in taxation. Foreign-trained attorneys who plan to sit for a bar exam can contact the program director to plan a set of courses that meets the requirements. On outcomes, NYU Career Services reports that 97.1 percent of the 69 graduates of the full-time class of 2025 were employed full time by March 2026.

The reported split was 61% at law firms, 27% at accounting firms and 3% in clerkships. Most work in private practice, others hold judicial clerkships at the Tax Court, and the largest markets are the New York metro area, Washington, DC, the Southeast and the Southwest, including Texas.

Students find jobs through the Taxation Interview Program, the NYU On-Campus Interview Program and job postings. The program reports more than 10,000 alumni. Part-time students are eligible for career services, with some limitations.

Where this degree can lead: Masters in Taxation Jobs.

Who It Fits

• Lawyers who want a single intensive year: full-time students spend two semesters on campus and finish in one academic year, with a faculty advisor guiding each course choice.
• Tax lawyers working in the New York City area: NYU says the part-time track tends to draw them, it offers evening courses, and full-time lawyers who study part time typically finish in two to three years.
• Lawyers who want part of the degree on their own schedule: part-time students can fit up to 12 credits of prerecorded classes into the 24-credit degree and take the rest on campus.
• Future transactional advisers at law firms or accounting firms: NYU points these students to Partnership Taxation, International Tax I and II, and International Tax III.
• Lawyers who advise families and charities: Estate and Gift Taxation, Tax-exempt Organizations and Tax Aspects of Charitable Giving form NYU's suggested path for individual clients.

Every student takes a tax procedure course worth one or two credits, and full-time students add a tax policy course. Beyond that, NYU strongly recommends some exposure to corporate tax, partnership tax and international tax. The degree has no formal majors, minors or concentrations. Instead you choose from simple thematic groupings: general taxation, business taxation, international taxation, estate planning and tax policy.

Corporate Taxation and Partnership Taxation anchor the business side, International Tax I and II run four credits, and electives include Taxation of Mergers and Acquisitions, Taxation of Private Equity Transactions, Tax Treaties and Multistate Taxation. If you lean toward disputes, NYU suggests Survey of Tax Procedure, Civil Tax Controversies and Litigation, and Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties and Procedures.

There's no independent writing requirement, but with permission you can earn up to two credits for a directed research project supervised by a tax faculty member. Select LL.M. students can also serve on the Tax Law Review, a faculty-edited journal. A student on the full-time track explained that classes use the problem method, so your homework means working through problems.

Courses the School Names

• Corporate Taxation
• Partnership Taxation
• International Tax I, II and III
• Taxation of Mergers and Acquisitions
• Taxation of Private Equity Transactions
• Tax Treaties
• Estate and Gift Taxation

Standout Features

• Full-time graduates were more than 90 percent employed within 10 months, and 100 percent by the October after graduation last year
• More than 50 graduate tax courses taught by 10 full-time faculty and 40+ adjunct instructors
• Network of more than 10,000 tax alumni
• Part-time students can take up to half of the degree online
• Tax Law Review, a faculty-edited journal open to select LL.M. students

The degree requires 24 credits. Full-time, NYU says it generally takes one academic year, with two semesters on campus. Part-time, lawyers who work full time typically finish in two to three years, and you may take fewer credits in a given semester.

If you study part time, you register for up to six credits a semester unless you're approved for a credit load increase, and you have five years to complete the requirements. Some students add a few summer tax classes to finish faster.

Up to four transfer credits may be approved by the vice dean and faculty director.

For 2026-2027, the part-time rate is $3,638 per credit. There's also an $865 fee for the first credit and $79 for each credit after that. You'll also pay a $121 School of Law technology fee each semester. The full-time rate is calculated by semester. NYU's tax FAQ adds that tuition increases by about 4% each academic year, so part-time study over several years will reflect those increases.

You choose how much of the program happens in a classroom. The full-time degree runs on campus for two semesters. If you study part time, you complete at least 12 credits in on-campus coursework, often in NYU's evening courses, and can take the remaining credits in an asynchronous, prerecorded format that NYU has offered for over ten years.

Those recorded courses are generally limited to part-time students unless a course isn't otherwise offered on campus that semester. You never get a lighter version of the class: students in the room and students watching later complete the same problem sets, take the same exam and are graded on the same curve.

The full rubric is on the methodology page.

A 2024 graduate who left a job to study at NYU and accepted an offer at a large New York firm wrote on Reddit that the program opened doors that would never have opened otherwise, and that it brought them into a network of accomplished people who respect the degree.

A Big Law associate commenting in 2024 said the NYU tax LL.M. gives better chances at large firms than a general LL.M. anywhere else, and a 2023 poster who chose NYU over two other tax programs said they have never regretted it.

A graduate posting on a forum in 2023 treated the program like a 9-to-5 job and did extremely well, and a 2022 commenter told an admitted student that the curve is forgiving. On rankings, U.S. News & World Report's tax law specialty list has placed NYU first, according to a 2025 Above the Law reprint.

• Which of the suggested courses of study fits the work I do now, and which two classes should I take first?
• If I study part time, which of my 24 credits should I take in the prerecorded format and which on campus in the evening?
• Could summer tax classes shorten my timeline, and when are they offered?
• How do the Taxation Interview Program and on-campus interviews work for part-time students, and what are the limits on career services?

• Best Master's in Taxation Rank 33 of 78, master's
• On-Campus Master's in Taxation Rank 17 of 37, master's
• Part-Time Programs Rank 18 of 39, master's
• Best for Working Professionals Rank 21 of 46, master's
• Best for Parents Rank 21 of 46, master's
• Private University Programs Rank 18 of 43, master's
• Internship or Practicum Rank 12 of 24, master's
• International Taxation Rank 10 of 12, master's
• Best Programs in New York Rank 5 of 11, master's

• Master of Studies in Law in Taxation

  M.S.L., Master's

  Fully Online $3,638 per credit Score 58.3

• Taxation (Executive)

  LL.M., Master's

  Fully Online $3,638 per credit Score 51.1

• University of Denver

  LLM in Taxation

  Colorado Score 56.4

• University of Baltimore

  Master of Science in Taxation

  Maryland $1,125 per credit Score 56.3

• University of Washington

  Master of Science in Taxation

  Washington Score 57.0

• Boston University

  LLM in Taxation

  Massachusetts Score 57.2