- The Berkeley MBA Advantage

Real Estate

The Haas Real Estate Program, consistently ranked among the nation's best, combines a strong analytical focus with hands-on field experience. It prepares you for a broad range of career paths with firms such as real estate investment trusts, real estate operating companies, developers, financial institutions, investment banks, and consulting companies.

Students master the management, development, and financing of real estate, and take courses from related fields, such as architecture, law, public policy, and city planning.

Real estate coursework

Real estate courses in the Berkeley MBA program focus on four areas of real estate: financial analysis, finance and securitization, development, and investment strategy.
Courses combine lectures and case methods, student-initiated projects, and in-class work with leading real estate professionals.
A nationally recognized real estate research program ensures that the latest ideas and knowledge infuse Berkeley MBA courses.

Further develop your professional skills

Through:

Internships
Participation in the Real Estate Club
ACRE, a powerfully effective real estate career development program
Extramural real estate development and finance competitions

Real estate competitions

Berkeley MBA students regularly compete and win in major regional and nationwide real estate competitions, including:

Bank of America Low-Income Housing Challenge
NAIOP Real Estate Challenge
UT Austin Real Estate Finance Challenge
Urban Land Institute Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition

Nancy Wallace

California Chair of Real Estate and Urban Economics

Co-Chair of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics

"Cases are powerful. The goal is to get students to think actively on their feet and to interact with their peers. The cases focus on recent real estate deals and students directly apply classroom concepts to develop their own solution strategies."

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