2025 Best Real Estate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
9Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
953Real Estate Degrees Awarded
Real Estate is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #200 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 9 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for real estate students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 953 degrees in real estate annually.
The real estate program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Real Estate rankings. For our Best Overall Real Estate School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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Best Schools for Real Estate in the Middle Atlantic Region
The schools below may not offer all types of real estate degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It's hard to beat University of Pennsylvania if you want to pursue a degree in real estate. UPenn is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Philadelphia. A Best Colleges rank of #2 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UPenn is a great university overall.
There were about 72 real estate students who graduated with this degree at UPenn in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat New York University if you want to pursue a degree in real estate. NYU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of New York. A Best Colleges rank of #16 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means NYU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 321 real estate students who graduated with this degree at NYU in the most recent year we have data available.
Georgetown University is a great decision for students interested in a degree in real estate. Georgetown is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Washington. A Best Colleges rank of #11 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Georgetown is a great university overall.
There were about 170 real estate students who graduated with this degree at Georgetown in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in real estate needs to look into Villanova University. Villanova is a large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Villanova. This university ranks 3rd out of 103 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were approximately 41 real estate students who graduated with this degree at Villanova in the most recent data year.
Located in the small city of Ithaca, Cornell is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #9 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Cornell is a great university overall.
There were approximately 35 real estate students who graduated with this degree at Cornell in the most recent data year.
Drexel is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Philadelphia. This university ranks 10th out of 103 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 23 real estate students who graduated with this degree at Drexel in the most recent data year.
Fordham U is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Bronx. This university ranks 7th out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were approximately 34 real estate students who graduated with this degree at Fordham U in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the city of Syracuse, Syracuse is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. This university ranks 5th out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 45 real estate students who graduated with this degree at Syracuse in the most recent year we have data available.
Baruch is a fairly large public college located in the city of New York. This college ranks 26th out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 41 real estate students who graduated with this degree at Baruch in the most recent data year.
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Notes and References
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).
The real estate program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Real Estate rankings. For our Best Overall Real Estate School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
