Undergraduate real estate programs in the United States

Such shortcomings may have left business school graduates inadequately prepared to make the decisions that, taken together, might have helped mitigate the financial and real estate crisis, critics say.

[6] An alternative course of study to an undergraduate degree in business or real estate is the liberal arts, such as economics, public administration, urban planning, or geography.

The U.S. News & World Report ranks the top 13 undergraduate programs which offer a study in real estate.

[7] However, many schools on the U.S. News & World Report list (University of Florida[3] and Cornell University,[8][9] for example) do not actually offer undergraduate degrees (majors) in Real Estate, and alternatively run a "focus" or "minor" in Real Estate under their Finance departments.

The International Council of Shopping Centers provides an alternative list of active "Real Estate" institutions:[10]