Master in Real Estate
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Master in Real Estate
The Master in Real Estate (MRE) is a 12-month degree that provides essential skills and knowledge for real estate professionals while teaching how well-designed real estate can advance beneficial spatial, social, and environmental outcomes in cities and metropolitan areas worldwide. Through a multidisciplinary curriculum, including a two-month off-campus practicum with a private or public real estate organization, students learn finance, development, management, design, technology, law, and policy, as well as the social and environmental considerations essential to real estate practice.
The MRE degree’s placement within Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and its Department of Urban Planning and Design (UPD) reflects that real estate is physical—designed, developed, and stewarded collaboratively. MRE students benefit from learning within one of the largest design schools in the world, with roughly 200 faculty and nearly 1,000 graduate students from around the world. UPD is well-suited to host the MRE, with leading scholars and practitioners teaching courses on real estate and related subjects such as public and private development, land use and environmental law, urban design and planning, housing, transportation, international development, and healthy cities, among other subjects.
Harvard’s Real Estate Ecosystem
Harvard is more than the Graduate School of Design. There are 12 additional graduate and professional schools, along with the College, that together weave a rich tapestry of relevant courses and resources. Like all Harvard students, MRE students enjoy cross-registration privileges that enable them to take eligible courses at the Harvard Business School, the Kennedy School, the Law School, the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the College, and other Harvard graduate schools. Students may also cross-register in eligible classes at MIT.
The professional schools are supplemented by centers and institutes that sponsor conferences, guest speakers, research, and fellowships. The Joint Center for Housing Studies, co-administered by the GSD and the Kennedy School, publishes the heavily cited annual “State of the Nation’s Housing” report and enjoys long-standing relationships with some of the world’s largest housing developers, owners, and managers. Working from its specially designed and constructed HouseZero building, the GSD’s own Center for Green Buildings and Cities produces research on how existing buildings can dramatically reduce their energy footprints. Other Harvard centers and initiatives such as The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, the Center for the Environment (part of the Salata Institute), the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative sponsor many public programs with particular relevance to real estate study and practice.