If you plan on getting your master's degree in real estate, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #107 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for real estate students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 95 master's degrees in real estate during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Real Estate School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of real estate for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on real estate students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other real estate students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt real estate students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized real estate related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for real estate students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Real Estate Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Real Estate in the Rocky Mountains Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in real estate.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Master's in Real Estate
Every student who is interested in a master's degree in real estate needs to check out University of Denver. DU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Denver.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the real estate program make about $70,435 in their early career salary.
University of Utah is a good choice for students interested in a master's degree in real estate. Located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City, U of U is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Real Estate master's degree recipients from University of Utah receive an earnings boost of around $11,421 over the typical income of real estate majors.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).