Ph.D. in Real Estate

The W. P. Carey School of Business doctoral program in real estate is designed to prepare students for careers at leading academic and research–oriented institutions through providing strong theoretical training in finance and economics with a real estate emphasis.

The Real Estate specialization at the doctoral level is offered through the Finance department. Students are required to fulfill all of the Finance requirements in addition to the Real Estate doctoral course and research seminar. All real estate students are also expected to serve as a research assistant to one of the real estate faculty as part of the faculty-student mentoring process. Part of this process may involve doing reviews for the top real estate journals and co-authoring papers with senior real estate faculty. Students are expected to attend not only the finance department seminar series but also the real estate seminar series. Students in this specialty must take qualifying exams in real estate as well as in finance.

For more information on a Ph.D. through the Finance department, please visit the department's Ph.D. Information.