Graduate Tax Program Tuition Rankings

The October 2009 issue of The National Jurist includes the Ultimate Guide to the 223 LL.M. Programs offered by U.S. Law Schools.  I have taken that data, along with data from law school websites, to compile this ranking of graduate tax programs by tuition, along with links to each program and the most recent U.S. News tax ranking.

Resident Tuition:

Tuition Rank	Tuition Amount	Law School	US News Rank
1	12,331	Florida	2
2	14,280	Thomas Cooley
3	14,910	Missouri-Kansas City
4	16,752	Temple
5	17,864	Wayne State
6	19,242	Houston
7	21,600	U. Washington (Seattle)	10
8	22,440	Villanova
9	25,200	Alabama
10	25,776	Capital
11	27,600	Thomas Jefferson
12	28,000	Chicago-Kent
13	29,520	DePaul
14	30,240	Chapman	9
14	30,240	John Marshall
16	30,600	San Diego	7
17	30,840	Baltimore
18	31,200	Loyola-L.A.	8
19	31,330	Loyola-Chicago
20	31,720	Golden Gate
21	34,392	Western New England
22	34,576	SMU	10
23	35,775	Denver	10
24	36,000	New York Law School
25	38,816	Boston University	5
26	39,192	Miami	5
27	41,850	Washington U. (St. Louis)
28	43,750	Georgetown	2
29	44,808	NYU	1
30	46,725	Michigan
31	48,440	Northwestern	4
32	48,736	USC

Non-resident tuition:

Tuition Rank	Tuition Amount	Law School	US News Rank
1	14,280	Thomas Cooley
2	19,630	Wayne State
3	21,600	U. Washington (Seattle)	10
3	21,600	Temple
5	22,440	Villanova
6	25,200	Alabama
7	25,776	Capital
8	26,772	Houston
9	27,600	Thomas Jefferson
10	27,988	Missouri-Kansas City
11	28,000	Chicago-Kent
12	29,113	Florida	2
13	29,520	DePaul
14	30,240	Chapman	9
14	30,240	John Marshall
16	30,600	San Diego	7
17	31,200	Loyola-L.A.	8
18	31,330	Loyola-Chicago
19	31,720	Golden Gate
20	34,392	Western New England
21	34,576	SMU	10
22	35,775	Denver	10
23	36,000	New York Law School
24	38,816	Boston University	5
25	39,192	Miami	5
26	41,850	Washington U. (St. Louis)
27	43,750	Georgetown	2
28	44,808	NYU	1
29	45,030	Baltimore
30	46,725	Michigan
31	48,440	Northwestern	4
32	48,736	USC

Note that I have included tax programs not on the National Jurist list (Loyola-Chicago, Michigan, Thomas Jefferson, USC, and Western New England), and that the listed tuition may not include mandatory fees (such as NYU's $1,178 registration and service fee).

Update: Fred Brown (Baltimore) notes that some graduate tax programs offer credit toward the LL.M. for J.D. tax courses, with a corresponding reduction in tuition.  At Baltimore, for example, students can receive up to 15 credits for J.D. tax courses, thereby reducing the tuition burden in half -- from $30,840 (resident)/$45,030 (non-resident) to $15,420 (resident)/$22,515 (non-resident).