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]