Graduates of the Master’s Program in Taxation at Universidad de Las Américas are highly qualified, competent, and enterprising professionals with an international-global vision. Graduates possess strong analytical, quantitative, research, and strategic skills that enable them to adapt to the constant and complex changes in tax regulations, with a focus on tax optimization in both the public and private sectors.
Furthermore, graduates have a solid theoretical and practical foundation in tax management. Graduates participate in tax research from social, political, and economic perspectives. Graduates make strategic decisions based on legal, tax, accounting, and financial research. Graduates assess the impact of tax regulations on critical corporate factors such as reinvestment, dividends, equity-based compensation, mergers, acquisitions, and liquidations. Graduates also demonstrate leadership and tax planning skills with an emphasis on resource optimization and risk minimization.
Ultimately, graduates are expected to lead teams in national and international contexts, acting with ethics, creativity, proactiveness, innovation, and responsibility. Graduates uphold the current legal framework and are committed to contributing to the advancement of the country’s tax and accounting systems.
Demographic Data - provides information about student enrollment disaggregated by gender and ethnicity, offering insight into the demographic diversity within the program.
Student Completion - provides information about graduation rates and graduation rates disaggregated by gender calculated through the 2021–2022 academic year, based on cohorts of new, first-time students, regardless of enrollment in the program's daytime or evening instructional delivery (if applicable).
All programs utilize the Brightspace platform to collect and assess student work and to compile data and evidence of student achievement. The resulting outcomes and their analysis, which focus on identifying areas for improvement, are presented in the program’s assessment report. In the graphic below, the most recent assessment period for each Program Learning Outcome (PLO) is indicated, along with the percentage representing the level of achievement of the expected performance standard for that PLO, based on the rubric used to evaluate student work.
Note: Multiple descriptions per PLO code reflect updates over time. All versions are shown to support historical and comparative analysis.