2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Real Estate in the Southeast Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 Southeast region, there were 1,015 real estate graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,110 and $23,202 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 191 real estate graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 10 colleges that offer a degree in real estate. To top this list, a school must have a successful real estate program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree real estate students.
Top 10 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Real Estate in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida International University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s list. This large school is located in Miami, Florida, and it awarded 97 masters’s real estate degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Florida. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s list. University of Florida is located in Gainesville, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 48 masters’s real estate degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.
Read more about Real Estate at UF
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clemson University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s list. Clemson, South Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s real estate degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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 Clemson Real Estate Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Nova Southeastern University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s list. NUS Florida is a large school located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida that handed out 13 masters’s real estate degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full NUS Florida Real Estate Report
Out of the 10 schools in the Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, George Mason University landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Fairfax, Virginia, this large public school awarded 11 degrees to qualified masters’s real estate students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full GMU Real Estate Report
With a ranking of #6, University of North Carolina at Charlotte did quite well on the 2023 Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s list. This large school is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, and it awarded 5 masters’s real estate degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% 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%.
Read full report on Real Estate at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
With a ranking of #7, Tulane University of Louisiana did quite well on the 2023 Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s list. This fairly large school is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it awarded 3 masters’s real estate degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Tulane University of Louisiana Real Estate Report
Georgia State University did quite well in the 2023 Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s ranking, coming in at #8. Georgia State University is a large public school situated in Atlanta, Georgia. It awarded 24 masters’s real estate degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Georgia State Real Estate Report
University of South Florida - Main Campus did quite well in the 2023 Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s ranking, coming in at #8. University of South Florida - Main Campus is a large school located in Tampa, Florida that handed out 0 masters’s real estate degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Real Estate at USF Tampa
University of Central Florida ranked #8 on this year’s Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s list. University of Central Florida is a large school located in Orlando, Florida that handed out 51 masters’s real estate degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Real Estate at University of Central Florida
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