If you plan on getting your master's degree in real estate, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #107 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Real Estate Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 83 master's degrees in real estate to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Real Estate School for Your Master's Degree
The real estate master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality real estate program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to real estate students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of real estate students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for real estate to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
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 schools for real estate students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Real Estate Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Real Estate in the Far Western US Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in real estate.
Top Far Western US Region Schools for a Master's in Real Estate
Any student who is interested in a master's degree in real estate has to check out Pepperdine University. Located in the large suburb of Malibu, Pepperdine is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a master’s in real estate from Pepperdine University
Portland State University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in real estate. Portland State University is a very large public university located in the large city of Portland.
Soon after graduation, real estate master's recipients generally make around $73,970 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).