Real Estate is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #107 most popular master's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in Colorado to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of real estate. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 68 master's degrees in real estate during the 2020-2021 academic year.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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 full 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.
The real estate school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Real Estate Master's Degree Schools in Colorado.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Real Estate in Colorado
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for real estate students seeking a a master's degree.
Top Colorado Schools for a Master's in Real Estate
Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in real estate has to check out University of Denver. DU is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Denver.
After graduating, real estate master's recipients generally earn an average of $70,435 in the first five years of their 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).