Program Overview

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Real Estate

Bachelor of Science

Overview

Today's real estate professionals must succeed across the "triple bottom line," ensuring their work is financially, socially, and environmentally sound. Not only must their projects meet these goals, but they are responsible to those who invest, live, and work in and around their properties. Consequently, students wishing to work in real estate must learn to anticipate their work's economic, social, and environmental implications and effectively manage them in cooperation with urban planners, designers, engineers, investors, lenders, stakeholders, and politicians. Students will graduate with the skills necessary to oversee real estate projects that respond to the complex challenges facing the built environment, including public health, climate change, financial risk, affordable housing, displacement, and more. This program is designed to teach students to maximize positive social and environmental outcomes during profitable real estate management, sales, investing, and development.

Learning Outcomes

• Apply knowledge of key real estate concepts to professional scenarios and projects.
• Employ the analytical tools commonly used in real estate practice.
• Communicate knowledge and analysis of real estate projects through public speaking, data visualization, and written communication.
• Evaluate the social, environmental, and financial impact of the real estate industry on society, and the ethical considerations facing real estate professionals.

Program Details

Coursework Location(s)

Main/Tucson

Level of Math

Moderate Knowledge

The M-strand is for students who require mathematical facility at the level of at least MATH 112 (College Algebra Concepts) or 108 (Modeling with Algebraic and Trigonometric Functions). This strand involves reasonable facility with algebra and algebraic functions, graphs, and simple modeling. Students who choose the M-strand are prepared for further mathematical work. This work may include MATH 107 (Exploring and Understanding Data), MATH 113 (Elements of Calculus), MATH 116 (Calculus Concepts for Business), MATH 119A (Mathematics of Biological Systems: A Calculus Based Approach), or a statistics class from outside the Mathematics Department, such as ISTA 116 (Statistical Foundations for the Information Age) or SBS 200 (Statistics for the Social Sciences).

Level of Second Language

2nd Semester Proficiency

Second-semester skill level in a second language is required. Non-B.A. degree students may fulfill this requirement with one of the following options: 1. Scoring the equivalent of second-semester skill level on an entrance or placement examination administered by The University of Arizona. 2. Completion with a C or better of a second semester course at the post-secondary level. 3. An AP (Advanced Placement), IB (International Baccalaureate) or CLEP (College Level Entrance Program) language score determined by the individual language department. 4. In the College of Engineering by a method determined within the College; however, all students in the college must also take a language placement examination on entrance to the University.

Pre-major Required?

No

This Major's College

College of Architecture, Planning & Landscape Arch

Degree

Bachelor of Science

Sample Plans

2025, Real Estate

• 4-Year Sample Plan
• Map Transfer Coursework

First Year

1st Semester

• UNIV 101 - Introduction to the General Education Experience (GE Entry) (1)
• ENGL 101 - First Year Writing 1 (GE Foundation Composition) (3)
• GE Foundation Second Language (First Semester) (4)
• MATH 107 or 112 (GE Foundation Math) (3)
• RED 1XX Survey of Real Estate and Society (1)

2nd Semester

• GE Core Exploring Perspectives (3)
• GE Core Building Connections (3)
• ENGL 102 - First Year Writing 2 (GE Foundation Composition) (3)
• GE Foundation Second Language (Second Semester) (4)
• RED 102 Urban Land (3)

Second Year

3rd Semester

• GE Core Exploring Perspectives (3)
• GE Core Exploring Perspectives (3)
• RED 2XX Intro to Quantitative Methods for Real Estate (3)
• SBE 201 Sustainable Design and Planning (3)
• Elective (3)

4th Semester

• GE Core Building Connections (3)
• Ethics options (3)
• RED 2XX History of Urban Development (3)
• RED 201 Intro to Real Estate and Development (3)
• Business Skills Elective (3)

Third Year

5th Semester

• GE Core Building Connections (3)
• RED 401 Intro to Real Estate Finance (3)
• RED 409 Real Estate and Transactions Law (3)
• RED 407 Survey of Responsible RED (3)
• Business Skills Elective (3)

6th Semester

• GE Core Exploring Perspectives (3)
• UNIV 301 - General Education Portfolio (GE Exit) (1)
• SBE 202 Professional Comm/Presentation (3)
• RED 4XX Principles of Architecture & Urban Design (3)
• RED/PLG 440 Housing Policy & Development (3)
• Built Environment Elective (3)

Fourth Year

7th Semester

• RED 4XX Advanced Quantitative Methods and Market Analysis (3)
• RED 415 Construction & Project Management (3)
• RED 3XX Innovation in Sustainable Building and Landscape Sciences (3)
• Business Skills Elective (3)
• Built Environment Elective (3)

8th Semester

• RED 498 Real Estate Capstone (4)
• RED 3XX Property Management for Business & Sustainability (3)
• Built Environment Elective (3)
• Elective (3)
• Elective (3)