A degree in real estate is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #155 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. 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 Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 250 degrees in real estate to qualified students.
Your choice of real estate school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for real estate schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Real Estate Schools in Pennsylvania list to help you make the college decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the real estate degrees they offer, see the list below.
Every student who is interested in real estate needs to look into University of Pennsylvania. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, UPenn is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #4 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UPenn is a great university overall.
There were approximately 82 real estate students who graduated with this degree at UPenn in the most recent year we have data available. Those real estate students who get their degree from University of Pennsylvania make $24,301 more than the typical real estate grad.
Villanova University is a good choice for students pursuing a degree in real estate. Located in the suburb of Villanova, Villanova is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #70 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Villanova is a great university overall.
There were roughly 43 real estate students who graduated with this degree at Villanova in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduation, real estate degree recipients typically earn around $70,782 in the first five years of their career.
Every student pursuing a degree in real estate needs to check out Drexel University. Located in the city of Philadelphia, Drexel is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 10th out of 109 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 11 real estate students who graduated with this degree at Drexel in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in real estate needs to look into Temple University. Located in the city of Philadelphia, Temple is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 11th out of 109 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were about 21 real estate students who graduated with this degree at Temple in the most recent year we have data available.
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).