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Full-time MBA Program

Real Estate

Top-Ranked Real Estate Program

Consistently ranked among the nation's top three programs, the Real Estate Program at the Haas School combines a strong analytical focus with hands-on field experience. It prepares students 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 focus on four areas - real estate financial analysis, real estate finance and securitization, real estate development, and real estate investment strategy. Real estate courses in the Berkeley MBA program combine lectures and case methods, student-initiated projects, and in-class work with leading real estate professionals. Students can further develop their professional skills through internships, a CEO mentoring program, participation in the Real Estate Club, our new real estate career development program, ACRE, and extramural real estate development and finance competitions.

A nationally recognized real estate research program at the Haas School ensures that the latest ideas and knowledge infuse the MBA courses. Courses offered in the field include Real Estate Finance and Securitization, Real Estate Strategy, Real Estate Development, and Housing and the Urban Economy. A certificate in Real Estate offers an opportunity to explore the subject in depth with additional courses in real estate law at the Boalt Hall School of Law and a planning and architecture course in the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley.

Berkeley MBA students regularly compete in major regional and nationwide real estate competitions, including the Bank of America Low-Income Housing Challenge, the NAIOP Real Estate Challenge, the UT Austin Real Estate Finance Challenge, and the ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. Haas School teams have a consistent track record of success in these events.

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Learning Real Estate through Real-life Cases

Professor Nancy Wallace is Chair of the Real Estate Group and Co-Chair of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics. Her seminar in Real Estate Finance and Securitization uses a series of reallife cases. Says Professor Wallace, "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."