2023 Most Popular Colleges for Real Estate in the New England Region
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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 “Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the New England 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 New England region, there were 159 real estate graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in real estate. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in real estate.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the New England Region”.
Top 3 Most Popular Colleges for Real Estate in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harvard University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the New England Region. Harvard is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 112 ’s real estate degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read full report on Real Estate at Harvard
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Connecticut. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the New England Region. Located in Storrs, Connecticut, this large public school awarded 14 degrees to qualified ’s real estate students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New England College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in the New England Region list. New England College is a small school located in Henniker, New Hampshire that handed out 0 ’s real estate degrees in 2020-2021.
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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
- *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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