a master's degree in real estate is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #107 out of 343 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Real Estate Master's Degree Schools in New York ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 326 master's degrees in real estate to qualified students.
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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good 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 host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 colleges for real estate students working on their master's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Real Estate Master's Degree Schools in New York list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Real Estate in New York
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in real estate.
Top New York Schools for a Master's in Real Estate
New York University is a great option for students interested in a master's degree in real estate. NYU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York.
Those real estate students who get their master's degree from New York University receive $25,656 more than the typical real estate student.
It's hard to beat Cornell University if you want to pursue a master's degree in real estate. Located in the city of Ithaca, Cornell is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the real estate program earn about $89,132 for their early career.
Fordham University is a great choice for individuals interested in a master's degree in real estate. Fordham U is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Bronx.
Master's students who receive their degree from the real estate program make about $91,695 for their early career.
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).