2025 Best Real Estate Associate Degree Schools in California
8Colleges in California
398Associate Degrees
If you plan on getting your associate degree in real estate, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #123 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 8 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for real estate students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 398 associate degrees in real estate to qualified students.
DEBUG: Checking offer "Construction Management (I Have a HS Diploma or Associate Degree)" with relevance 0.5
DEBUG: ✗ Offer "Construction Management (I Have a HS Diploma or Associate Degree)" REJECTED (relevance 0.5)
DEBUG: Checking offer "Construction Management (I Have a Bachelors)" with relevance 0.5
DEBUG: ✗ Offer "Construction Management (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 1 offers with relevance >= 1.0
Choosing a Great Real Estate School for Your Associate Degree
The real estate associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality real estate program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to real estate students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of real estate students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for real estate to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized real estate related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for real estate students working on their associate 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 Associate Degree Schools in California list, to help you choose the best school for you.
DEBUG: Raw major_slug = "business-management-marketing-sales//real-estate"
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
The real estate associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality real estate program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
