2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Real Estate in the Southwest 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 has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Real Estate Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 6,547 people earned their degree in real estate, making the major the 200th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 934 real estate graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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 looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in real estate. That schools that top this list have a program in real estate in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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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. This large school is located in College Station, Texas, and it awarded 58 masters’s real estate degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Real Estate at Texas A&M University - College Station
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. The University of Texas at Arlington is a large public school situated in Arlington, Texas. It awarded 11 masters’s real estate degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full The University of Texas at Arlington Real Estate Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Real Estate Major in the Southwest Region list. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s real estate degrees to 39 students in 2020-2021.
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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.
Full SMU Real Estate Report
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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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