2025 Best Real Estate Associate Degree Schools
17
Colleges in the United States
677
Associate Degrees
Real Estate is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #187 most popular associate degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 17 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Real Estate Associate Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 677 associate degrees in real estate to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Real Estate School for Your Associate Degree

Your choice of real estate for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on real estate students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other real estate students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized real estate related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for real estate students working on their associate degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
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 Associate Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.