a bachelor's degree in real estate is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #137 out of 363 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Virginia to determine which ones were the best for real estate students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 126 bachelor's degrees in real estate to qualified students.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's 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
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on real estate students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of real estate students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
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 to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized real estate related body.
Our complete 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.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Real Estate Bachelor's Degree Schools in Virginia ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
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Virginia Tech is a great decision for students interested in a bachelor's degree in real estate. Virginia Tech is a very large public school located in the small city of Blacksburg.
Those real estate students who get their bachelor's degree from Virginia Tech make $10,199 more than the standard real estate student.
Virginia Commonwealth University is a great option for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in real estate. VCU is a fairly large public university located in the city of Richmond.
Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the real estate program earn around $47,681 in the first couple years of working.
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).
