You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a Master's Degree in real estate development. It is ranked #206 out of 343 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of real estate development. Combined, these schools handed out 165 master's degrees in real estate development to qualified students.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to real estate development students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other real estate development 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 easy is it for real estate development to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized real estate development related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for real estate development students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Real Estate Development Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Real Estate Development in the Middle Atlantic Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in real estate development.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Master's in Real Estate Dev
It is hard to beat Columbia University in the City of New York if you want to pursue a master's degree in real estate development. Columbia is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York.
Real Estate Development master's degree recipients from Columbia University in the City of New York earn a boost of around $17,104 above the typical income of real estate development majors.
It is difficult to beat University at Buffalo if you want to pursue a master's degree in real estate development. University at Buffalo is a very large public university located in the large suburb of Buffalo.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the real estate dev program make around $68,347 in their early career salary.
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).
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