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2025 Best Real Estate Schools in New York

5 Colleges in New York
479 Real Estate Degrees Awarded
$67,828 Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in real estate is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #155 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 5 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for real estate students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 479 degrees in real estate annually.

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Choosing a Great Real Estate School

Best Real Estate Schools in New York Your choice of real estate school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for real estate schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.

You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.

Pick Your Real Estate Degree Level

Bachelor's Degrees in Real Estate
Master's Degrees in Real Estate

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 Schools in New York list to help you make the college decision. More interested in schools in a specific area of the country? Filter this list by region or state.

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Best Schools for Real Estate in New York

If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the real estate degrees they offer, see the list below.

Top New York Schools in Real Estate

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New York University
New York, NY
Master's Degree Highest Degree Type
321 Real Estate Degrees Awarded
$120,763 Median Starting Salary

New York University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in real estate. Located in the city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #16 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means NYU is a great university overall.

There were about 321 real estate students who graduated with this degree at NYU in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the real estate major at New York University earn $52,935 more than the typical graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.

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2
Master's Degree Highest Degree Type
35 Real Estate Degrees Awarded
22.9% Growth in Graduates

It is difficult to beat Cornell University if you wish to pursue a degree in real estate. Cornell is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Ithaca. A Best Colleges rank of #9 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Cornell is a great university overall.

There were about 35 real estate students who graduated with this degree at Cornell in the most recent data year. Those real estate students who get their degree from Cornell University make $21,304 more than the standard real estate graduate.

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3
Master's Degree Highest Degree Type
34 Real Estate Degrees Awarded
$91,695 Median Starting Salary

It's difficult to beat Fordham University if you want to pursue a degree in real estate. Located in the large city of Bronx, Fordham U is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. This university ranks 7th out of 136 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.

There were roughly 34 real estate students who graduated with this degree at Fordham U in the most recent year we have data available. Those real estate students who get their degree from Fordham University earn $23,867 more than the typical real estate student.

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Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type
45 Real Estate Degrees Awarded
11.1% Growth in Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in real estate needs to look into Syracuse University. Syracuse is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Syracuse. This university ranks 5th out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.

There were about 45 real estate students who graduated with this degree at Syracuse in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduating, real estate degree recipients usually make around $59,396 at the beginning of their careers.

More information about a degree in real estate from Syracuse University

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Baruch College
New York, NY
Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type
41 Real Estate Degrees Awarded
$42,920 Median Starting Salary

Located in the large city of New York, Baruch is a public college with a fairly large student population. This college ranks 26th out of 136 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.

There were about 41 real estate students who graduated with this degree at Baruch in the most recent data year. After graduating, real estate degree recipients generally make about $42,920 in their early careers.

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Best Real Estate Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Real Estate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Colleges Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 334 140
Maryland 279 45
District of Columbia 188 204

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One of 21 majors within the Business, Management & Marketing area of study, Real Estate has other similar majors worth exploring.

Real Estate Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Real Estate 479

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Related Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 18,836
Accounting 6,713
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 5,042
Finance & Financial Management 3,170
General Business/Commerce 2,254
Marketing 2,000
Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing 1,610
Human Resource Management 1,443
Hospitality Management 1,360
General Sales & Marketing 1,031

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