Wharton Real Estate Department

Welcome to the Real Estate Department at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania!

Wharton’s Real Estate Department prepares students to be leaders in the real estate industry and provides the quantitative and qualitative tools necessary for their roles in shaping the future of the industry.  It also provides an introduction to the real estate sector for students in other fields who nevertheless recognize the importance of real estate for all sectors of the economy and seek to understand it. Relevant topics that department faculty examine include real estate finance and investment analysis, development, the economics of real estate markets, urban fiscal policy, real estate law, entrepreneurship in the real estate sector, housing markets, the relationship between government policy and private development, real estate data analytics, and international real estate markets.

U.S. News and World Report has repeatedly ranked Wharton’s Real Estate MBA Program as the top in the nation. The Real Estate Department offers concentrations in real estate at three levels:

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