If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in real estate, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #137 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for real estate students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 86 bachelor's degrees in real estate to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Real Estate School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The real estate bachelor's 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. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. 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 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 bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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 - How many other real estate students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
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 much debt real estate students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
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 bachelor's degree.
The real estate school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Real Estate Bachelor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don't forget it.
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It is hard to beat Villanova University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in real estate. Located in the suburb of Villanova, Villanova is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.
Real Estate bachelor's degree recipients from Villanova University earn a boost of around $13,433 above the average income of real estate graduates.
It's difficult to beat Drexel University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in real estate. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, Drexel is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in real estate from Drexel University
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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 bachelor's 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. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
