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.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of real estate. Combined, these schools handed out 259 degrees in real estate to qualified students.
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.
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 Pennsylvania 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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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.
Every student pursuing a degree in real estate needs to take a look at University of Pennsylvania. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, UPenn is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #2 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UPenn is a great university overall.
There were roughly 72 real estate students who graduated with this degree at UPenn in the most recent data year. Degree recipients from the real estate program at University of Pennsylvania get $137,755 more than the average college grad in this field shortly after graduation.
Villanova University is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in real estate. Located in the suburb of Villanova, Villanova is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 103 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 41 real estate students who graduated with this degree at Villanova in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the real estate degree program at Villanova University earn $7,874 more than the standard graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
Any student pursuing a degree in real estate has to check out Drexel University. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, Drexel is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. This university ranks 10th out of 103 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were about 23 real estate students who graduated with this degree at Drexel in the most recent year we have data available.
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).