You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a Master's Degree in real estate development. It is ranked #206 out of 343 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Real Estate Development Master's Degree Schools in Arizona ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 54 master's degrees in real estate development to qualified students.
DEBUG: Checking offer "Real Estate (I Have a HS Diploma or Associate Degree)" with relevance 0.9
DEBUG: ✓ Offer "Real Estate (I Have a HS Diploma or Associate Degree)" ACCEPTED (relevance 0.9)
DEBUG: Checking offer "Urban Planning (I Have a HS Diploma or Associate Degree)" with relevance 0.6
DEBUG: ✗ Offer "Urban Planning (I Have a HS Diploma or Associate Degree)" REJECTED (relevance 0.6)
DEBUG: Checking offer "Urban Planning (I Have a Bachelors)" with relevance 0.6
DEBUG: ✗ Offer "Urban Planning (I Have a Bachelors)" REJECTED (relevance 0.6)
DEBUG: Checking offer "Architecture (I Have a Bachelors)" with relevance 0.5
DEBUG: ✗ Offer "Architecture (I Have a Bachelors)" REJECTED (relevance 0.5)
DEBUG: relevant_offers count = 1
DEBUG: relevant_offers > 0, checking for ESYOH offers
DEBUG: ESYOH filtering - found 1 ESYOH offers with relevance >= 0.8
DEBUG: esyoh_offers count = 1
DEBUG: ESYOH offers found, rendering ESYOH widget
DEBUG: most_relevant_only = true, filtering for most relevant
DEBUG: Found 0 offers with relevance >= 1.0
DEBUG: Backfilling with 1 offers with relevance >= 0.9
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to real estate development students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other real estate development students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for real estate development to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized real estate development related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for real estate development students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Real Estate Development Master's Degree Schools in Arizona list, to help you choose the best school for you.
DEBUG: Raw major_slug = "architecture-and-related-services//real-estate-development"
Arizona State University - Tempe is a good option for students pursuing a master's degree in real estate development. Located in the city of Tempe, ASU - Tempe is a public university with a very large student population.
Students who graduate with their master's from the real estate dev program report average early career income of $74,032.
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
.jpg){kind=link}