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MBA Real Estate Finance Concentration

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Students admitted to the full-time Texas MBA program can select an area of concentration for their studies, including the option to focus on real estate.  

The MBA Real Estate Concentration is tailored to students seeking careers in real estate finance, investment and development. The Center emphasizes the importance of a concurrent classroom and experiential learning.  Our graduates have both the technical and practical skills to succeed as leaders of tomorrow’s real estate industry. The MBA Real Estate Concentration is exclusively available to students in the full-time program. 

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Through GRES, the Center offers several co-curricular activities that augment time spent in the classroom. Benefits include specialized real estate career assistance, exclusive project and company visits, software trainings, case competitions, industry conferences and more.

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MBA Real Estate Curriculum

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The real estate concentration requires at least six courses (17 hours) of real estate curriculum. Course options include real estate finance, investments, development law, student-managed Real Estate Funds, project-based practicum with industry partners, as well as electives offered by UT’s School of Architecture and School of Law. The Real Estate Center and GRES coordinate an additional 20+ education-based real estate opportunities each semester, which are held outside of the classroom.

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Student-Managed REIT & Private Equity Funds

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McCombs holds the distinction of being the only business school in the country where students have the opportunity to manage both public and private real estate investment funds as part of their course work. The REIT Fund, which began in 2007, and the Private Equity Fund, launched in 2016, are both student-managed investment funds that establish McCombs as the nation’s pre-eminent real estate education institution.