2025 Best Real Estate Development Schools in California
1College in California
193Real Estate Dev Degrees Awarded
$93,596Avg Early-Career Salary
Real Estate Development degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #291 out of the 395 majors we look at each year. While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
There was only one school in California to review for the 2025 Best Real Estate Development Schools in California ranking.
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Best Schools for Real Estate Development in California
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the real estate dev degree levels they offer.
University of Southern California is a good decision for students interested in a degree in real estate development. USC is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Los Angeles.
Students who graduate with their degree from the real estate dev program report average early career income of $86,492.
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).