2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Real Estate Development in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 420 people earned their degree in real estate development, making the major the 291st most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, real estate development graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $71,535 and had an average of $16,500 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 37 real estate development graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,288 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 37 real estate development graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Real Estate Dev Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in real estate development. That schools that top this list have a program in real estate development in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Real Estate Dev Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Real Estate Dev Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Real Estate Development in the Southwest Region

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Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

$58,288 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Real Estate Dev Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #1 spot on the list. Tempe, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s real estate dev degrees to 28 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Arizona State University - Tempe Real Estate Development Report

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University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Real Estate Dev Major in the Southwest Region. University of Arizona is located in Tucson, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 masters’s real estate dev degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read full report on Real Estate Development at University of Arizona

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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