Texas A&M University-Kingsville Master of Science in Taxation in 2027

Texas A&M University-Kingsville offers a 30-credit Master of Science in Taxation (MST) that's fully online, asynchronous and accelerated. Six accounting courses, including an energy tax class on oil and gas, sit beside four business courses that broaden your résumé.

The College of Business at Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) delivers the MST as a 30-credit-hour, fully online, asynchronous accelerated graduate program. The school describes it as giving a comprehensive and specialized understanding of tax law applicable to any size firm, and it's designed for people with backgrounds in tax, accounting, finance or even law.

Your curriculum combines advanced tax coursework with graduate-level economics and finance and finishes with a strategic management capstone. Because the course work is asynchronous, you complete assignments on your own schedule and still move through the degree on an accelerated timeline.

Federal education data put TAMUK's graduate charge at $609 per credit, and that's the figure to work from for your 30 credits. The College of Business also runs a graduate scholarships page for its master's students, so ask the graduate office which awards an MST student can apply for.

Who It Fits

• Working accountants and finance staff: the asynchronous format lets you study around a job, and a student in the college's online Master of Business Administration (MBA) program says Sunday due dates left room for a part-time job.
• Professionals in or near the energy industry: Energy Accounting and Taxation covers oil and gas tax accounting, including a tax project you build on a global oil and gas tax report from Ernst and Young.
• Students building toward Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensure: your coursework may count toward the 150 semester credit hours associated with the education requirements, subject to state board rules.
• Strong undergraduates: if you're an academically qualified undergraduate, you may be eligible for an accelerated pathway that permits completion of the MST on an expedited basis.

The degree is built from six accounting classes and four business breadth classes, ten three-credit courses in all. On the tax side, Advanced Auditing and Taxation teaches you to assess audit risk, including tax account risks, and to plan an audit; each student writes a tax case paper based on audit-related cases posted in the online course site.

Federal Partnership and Limited Liability Company (LLC) Taxation surveys the federal income tax laws that apply to partnerships and LLC entities, covering formation, operations and basis, plus distributions, transfers of interest and terminations. Advanced Income Tax Problems turns to regulations that affect partnerships and corporations, the preparation of federal income tax returns for those businesses, and federal gift and estate tax.

Energy Accounting and Taxation is the distinctive course. You cover financial and managerial accounting for upstream oil and gas operations, reserves, the successful efforts and full cost methods, production activities, project analysis and oil and gas tax accounting. Government and Non-Profit Accounting covers the principles and practice of fund accounting for governmental and nonprofit organizations, and Accounting Ethics applies ethical theory to integrity, objectivity and independence.

Your business breadth classes are Marketing Management and Value Creation, Economics and Managerial Decision Making, and Financial Management and Sustainability. The capstone, Strategic Management, includes a case competition, and you take it in the last block of the program.

Courses the School Names

• Advanced Auditing and Taxation
• Energy Accounting and Taxation
• Federal Partnership and LLC Taxation
• Advanced Income Tax Problems
• Accounting Ethics

Standout Features

• Accelerated pathway for academically qualified undergraduates
• Coursework counts toward the 150 semester credit hours for CPA licensure, subject to state board requirements
• Energy Accounting and Taxation course covering oil and gas tax accounting

The MST is a 30-credit program made of ten three-credit courses, and the college describes it as accelerated. The College of Business graduate page lays out graduate study as three semesters a year built from eight-week blocks, and you take the Strategic Management capstone, with its case competition, in the last block of the program.

If you're a qualified undergraduate who meets the college's standards, you may use an accelerated pathway to finish the degree on an expedited basis.

The MST is fully online and asynchronous, so there aren't any live sessions to attend and you work through each course on your own schedule. Course materials sit in Blackboard, the online course site, which is also where the audit-related cases for the Advanced Auditing and Taxation paper are posted.

Because nothing is tied to a set class time, you can hold a full-time job and still keep pace with the program's accelerated blocks.

The College of Business is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), which announced the accreditation in 2017.

The MST curriculum may help you complete graduate coursework toward the 150 semester credit hours associated with the educational requirements for CPA licensure, and the college describes the flexibility to earn credits for the CPA exam or continuing education units for those who want to expand their tax expertise while keeping their credential.

The program is aimed at careers where tax knowledge applies to firms of any size, and the energy course gives you oil and gas tax coursework.

Where this degree can lead: Masters in Taxation Jobs.

The full rubric is on the methodology page.

Local television coverage in 2024 captured several voices from the college's online programs. A TAMUK online MBA graduate said she was going back to earn her MST, which she called one of the best things for her now that she works for the city in finance and accounting.

Another graduate praised the online MBA's one-year format as about as convenient as it gets, and a student said Sunday due dates leave room for a part-time job at the College of Business alongside graduate study. The same story reported that Fortune placed the college's online MBA 32nd on its Best Online MBA Programs of 2024 list, up 60 spots from 2023.

• How does the accelerated pathway work for undergraduates, and what grade standards do I need to qualify?
• What does the Energy Accounting and Taxation tax project involve week by week?
• How are asynchronous assignments scheduled, and what are the typical due dates?
• How many of the 30 credits could count toward the 150 semester credit hours for CPA licensure in my state?
• When does the capstone case competition run, and how do I prepare for it in earlier courses?

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