Master's in Real Estate
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Become a Leader in the Real Estate Industry

The Master's in Real Estate focuses on the advanced academic and professional skills needed to meet the challenges of the evolving real estate and related financial, construction, and sustainability markets. Georgetown trains industry leaders through an immersive learning experience that emphasizes real-world trends, applications, and ethics.

The program's curriculum consists of 33 credit hours that can be completed in as little as two years, providing a strong academic foundation and insight into the most complex issues facing the real estate industry. Students may complete the program online or on campus and will take seven required courses plus four elective courses to complete the degree.

Competition Winners

The Master’s in Real Estate program offers opportunities for students to compete in prestigious case competitions with leading universities across the United States. Teams from Georgetown’s Real Estate program have won the MIT CASE Competition four times, more than any other university: 2014 in London, 2016 in Miami, 2018 in San Francisco, and 2023 in Toronto. In 2024, the Georgetown team was named one of three finalists in the MIT CASE Competition. Here in D.C., our teams have won the NAIOP Capital Challenge three times, in 2019, 2020, and 2025. A Georgetown team also won the Boston University Hospitality Real Estate Competition in 2025.

Choose From Four Career-Focused Concentrations

The Master’s in Real Estate program offers four concentrations that enable you to tailor your studies and sharpen your expertise one of the following areas:

  • Real Estate Development: Learn to orchestrate the work of multiple contractors and consultants and negotiate with lenders, investors, property owners, neighbors, and government officials. Courses in this concentration cover the real estate development process and the nuances of fields such as office, mixed-use, multifamily, and affordable housing.
  • Global Real Estate: Join the global real estate industry and participate in the flow of capital and the exchange of ideas between major markets around the world. This concentration explores both inbound and outbound investment and includes courses with opportunities for students to travel and network with companies overseas.
  • Real Estate Finance: Sharpen your skills in financial analysis and build expertise across the full spectrum of real estate finance. This concentration covers real estate investment, structured finance, capital markets, portfolio management, taxation, corporate real estate, and entrepreneurship.
  • Construction Management: Understand the basic principles of design and construction, including the construction process and how to use different contracting methods to allocate risk and rewards among the various players in that process. This concentration offers courses in development, construction project management, and sustainability.

To earn an MPS in Real Estate, you must successfully complete 11 courses (33 credits total), including those listed below. Learn more about course offerings on the Course Schedule page.

Core courses (6 credits total):

  • MPRE 5000: Ethics in Action
  • MPRE 7990: MPRE Capstone Project

Foundation courses (15 credits total):

  • MPRE 5100: Real Estate Fundamentals
  • MPRE 5300: Foundations of Real Estate Law
  • MPRE 5500: Foundations of Real Estate Finance
  • MPRE 5200: Foundations of Real Estate Markets
  • MPRE 5400: Foundations of Real Estate Accounting

Elective courses (12 credits total):

Select four courses from the following:

  • MPRE 7020: Development and Construction Project Management
  • MPRE 7140: Multi-Family & Affordable Housing
  • MPRE 6800: Real Estate Portfolio Management
  • MPRE 6700: Structured Finance
  • MPRE 7300: Sustainable Development and Construction
  • MPRE 7850: Impact of Globalization on Real Estate

Accreditation

All programs offered by Georgetown University are accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

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