2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Real Estate in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$82,729
Avg Salary
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Real Estate Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Real Estate is the 155th most popular major in the country with 6,547 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, real estate graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $60,568 and had an average of $21,484 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 934 real estate graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,664 and $19,534 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 69 real estate 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 Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in real estate. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in real estate.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Real Estate Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree real estate students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Real Estate in the Southwest Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Real Estate Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas A&M College Station is located in College Station, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 58 masters’s real estate degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.
Full Texas A&M University - College Station Real Estate Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Arlington. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Real Estate Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Arlington, Texas, this large public school handed out 11 diplomas to qualified masters’s real estate students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Real Estate at The University of Texas at Arlington
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Real Estate Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #3 spot on the list. SMU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Dallas, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 39 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Southern Methodist University Real Estate Report
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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
- *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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