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 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for real estate students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 81 master's degrees in real estate to qualified students.
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 colleges 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 Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Real Estate in the Southwest Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in real estate.
Top Southwest Region Schools for a Master's in Real Estate
Texas A&M University - College Station is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in real estate. Texas A&M College Station is a very large public university located in the midsize city of College Station.
Soon after graduation, real estate master's recipients generally earn around $82,111 in their early careers.
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).
