The MS in Real Estate Development program positions you for an entrepreneurial real estate career, a career in the nonprofit sector, or a management position in the public sector of economic development.

• Flexibility for students to take classes online with our low residency program, or on campus. 
• Focus on the quadruple bottom line of real estate development –
  • People – Social Responsibility
  • Planet – Environmental Sustainability
  • Profit – Economic Viability
  • Placemaking – Community Context and Design Excellence
• Cutting-edge curriculum rooted in practice and guided by industry faculty. 
• Learn to creatively invigorate urban communities—architecturally, environmentally and fiscally.
• Track the demographic, sociological, technological and economic trends that impact the supply and demand for particular projects within specific markets and areas.
• Apply “green” planning principles, as outlined by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to development projects.
• Assess fundamental legal principles and ethical practices applicable to real estate development.
• Apply financial and investment tools in a wide array of property types and development scenarios.
• Examine the opportunities and challenges of public-private partnerships (PPPs), the techniques employed to encourage growth, and the market and fiscal feasibility of cross-sector collaborations.
• Focus upon projects of various scales—from single building and neighborhood revitalization, to commercial, institutional and healthcare development.
• Analyze demographic, technological and economic trends using current GIS technologies.
• Measure the efficacy of sustainable interventions, such as Smart Growth, New Urbanism, Brownfield Redevelopment and Adaptive Reuse as a springboard to urban revitalization.
• Complete a comprehensive Capstone Project under the mentorship of faculty who are in the real estate industry.