UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS
Wharton Real Estate Department
Wharton’s Real Estate Department seeks to produce sophisticated professionals with the necessary skills to succeed in the business world but who also have a broader perspective on the issues involved in creating and maintaining living and working environments. Relevant issues that department faculty examine include finance, investments, production, operations, development law, design, environmental remediation, public policy, economic market analysis, and architecture.
U.S. News and World Report has repeatedly ranked Wharton’s real estate MBA program as the top in the nation.
James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a long and honored tradition of excellence in education and research in the discipline of real estate and urban land economics. In 2007, the center was named for the late James A. Graaskamp, a legendary figure in real estate education at Wisconsin. Today, the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate's main goal is to serve as a link between faculty and students, alumni, the professional real estate community, government agencies, and the general public.
Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics
The mission of the Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics is to educate students and real estate professionals and to support and conduct research on real estate, urban economics, the California economy, land use, and public policy.
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GRADUATE PROGRAMS
MSRE/MSRED
Schack Institute of Real Estate
The NYU School of Professional Studies Schack Institute of Real Estate offers master’s degrees, diploma programs, and career advancement courses, and in partnership with the NYU School of Professional Studies Paul McGhee Division. With master's degrees in Construction Management, Real Estate, and Real Estate Development, the Schack Institute of Real Estate empowers you to become an innovative leader in your area of specialization. Programs are taught by industry experts and are offered onsite and online.
Colombia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
The Real Estate Development program’s expanded three-semester curriculum combines the fundamental skills of professional real estate with a holistic approach to urban development as a creative act. Graduates receive a Master of Science of Real Estate Development (MS.RED) in an intensive calendar year spanning from May to May. Cross-disciplinary electives draw on the program’s access to the extraordinary offerings of GSAPP and Columbia at large, while required coursework immerses students in the three core tenets of urban real estate development: the financial, the physical, and the legal, arming students with the full range of professional and intellectual skills needed to tackle the complex demands of global urban real estate development.
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business: The Hotel School
We are pioneers—and we have been for more than 90 years. We venture through uncharted territory, clearing a path for the future of hospitality. Beginning in hotel operations in 1922 and growing to incorporate expertise in areas from food and beverage to real estate and finance, entrepreneurship, and labor and employment relations, we explore the most exotic places in travel and leisure, push the boundaries of knowledge and research, and invite the world to follow our path to discover and create the future of our industry.
Our mission is to create and disseminate knowledge about hospitality management through teaching, research, industry relations, and service.
Center for Real Estate
The MIT Master of Science in Real Estate Development (MSRED) offers an unparalleled education in real estate practice. MIT founded the Center and MSRED Program in the same spirit that it established its world-renowned engineering schools — to apply academic discoveries to practical problems in effective, creative ways.
School of Professional Studies
Georgetown’s Master of Professional Studies in Real Estate prepares you with the foundational skills and industry insights needed for success in today’s real estate industry. You’ll study active real estate markets across the U.S. and around the world through a blend of case studies and practical, hands-on application.
Led by a faculty of seasoned industry practitioners, our courses examine contemporary real estate practices with an emphasis on leadership development. You’ll leave the program with a 360-degree perspective of the modern-day real estate industry and the well-rounded expertise that today’s market demands.
Nathan S. Collier Master of Real Estate
Our Nathan S. Collier Master of Science in Real Estate (MSRE) students thrive on interaction with world-class real estate professors, analyzing relevant case studies, engaging with career mentors, and meeting others like you.
Dollinger Master of Real Estate Development
USC Price’s Dollinger Master of Real Estate Development program prepares graduates for key positions in real estate development and investment. The program does this by delivering a strong academic framework on which professional practice is built. Courses combine lectures, cases, and active engagement with the industry so students experience and master all facets of real estate’s tasks and challenges: finance and deal structuring, market analysis, site planning, political approvals, and project management; and across all product types: residential, retail, office, industrial, and hospitality.
The USC Dollinger MRED has a long tradition of providing education focused on real estate fundamentals and the recent market fluctuations have only served to sharpen our commitment to this legacy. The particulars of real estate are moving targets but the essential tools of underwriting are the same durable framework around which we oriented the program. Leadership requires looking ahead. While our curriculum is always evolving to meet the needs of our students, the structure remains constant: fundamentals matter and USC Dollinger MRED graduates leave the program skilled as complete real estate professionals.
GRADUATE PROGRAMS
MBA
Wharton Real Estate Club
The Wharton School has offered a real estate major for MBA students and undergraduates since 1985. The major has grown and developed both in size and scope.
The major consists of two required credit units and three electives. While the required courses focus on real estate development, and finance, the electives allow students to explore a variety of issues related to real estate. These include real estate economics, urban fiscal policy, real estate law, housing markets, the relationship between government policy and private development and international real estate markets.
The real estate major prepares students to be leaders in the real estate industry and provides the quantitative and qualitative tools necessary for their roles in shaping the future of the industry. To keep students informed of current issues in Real Estate, the Real Estate Department and Samuel Zell & Robert Lurie Real Estate Center sponsors conferences, seminars, and special programs on vital public policy issues relevant to the field.
Professor Gilles Duranton is the Chair of the Real Estate Department. Professor Todd Sinai is the MBA curriculum advisor. He can be contacted at: sinai@wharton.upenn.edu. The department is located in 1400 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall, and the main phone number is 215- 898-9687.
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Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate
Educational Mission. The educational goal of the Columbia MBA Real Estate Program is the advancement of professional business knowledge through research, curriculum innovations, and teaching excellence. A rigorous curriculum — combined with an expert faculty and a wide range of extracurricular activities run out of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate — makes Columbia unparalleled as the place for graduate business study in real estate.
Logic behind Our Curriculum. We have deliberately designed a curriculum that aims to foster sophistication in critical thinking as well as analytical skills, and knowledge of the institutional structures of the real estate industry as well as its financial tools and frameworks for smart decision making. Real Estate electives, which build on the MBA program's rigorous core curriculum, reflect the demands of the industry, and its changing financial landscape.
Integration of Theory and Practice. We structure our real estate courses such that they integrate theory and practice. We accomplish the theory/practice integration in five principal ways:
Use of Columbia CaseWorks real estate cases in each of our courses; since 1991, we have developed at least 65 proprietary cases, including 10 in 2009 alone;
Instruction by experienced industry professionals who serve as dedicated adjunct professors and innovators of curriculum materials;
Participation of industry professionals as guest lecturers in each of our courses;
Building upon the depth and diversity of the University's intellectual resources; and
Leveraging the richness of New York City's real estate market as a laboratory for learning.
Extracurricular Activities. Beyond the classroom, the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate produces a full calendar of activities that complements the formal curriculum. Senior-level practitioners — including many alumni — come to campus as event participants, speakers, panelists, and mentors, providing students with exceptional opportunities to gain in-depth insight into current topics of interest as well as the general culture of the real estate industry and specific firms they aspire to join.
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