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Real Estate
Explore Marquette : Majors & Minors : Business Administration : Real Estate

Location. Location. Location.
Blue Prints

Finding the perfect location is as important to a growing business as hiring the employees to run it. Will a new coffee shop thrive in this neighborhood? What about a condominium or apartment complex? Could this be the right spot for a commercial plant? Businesses might range from tiny storefronts to sprawling industrial complexes, but the importance of commercial real estate — and those who understand it — is the same.

For Sale: Real Estate

Whether your interest is to work for a firm that invests in, develops or services commercial real estate, or to run your own commercial real estate business, Marquette’s real estate major is a great place to prepare for your career, because this applied course of study gives you the opportunity to analyze, evaluate, finance, develop and manage commercial real estate.

THE MARQUETTE ADVANTAGE

EFFECTIVE AND ETHICAL. The real estate program at Marquette is grounded in the philosophy of Jesuit education. It seeks to provide the real estate community not only with innovative and effective professionals, but also with ethically committed decision-makers who understand their accountability to current and future users of developed space.

GROW. Marquette is surrounded by a number of firms — from national life insurance companies and banks to commercial property management firms and real estate development and brokerage companies — whose members advise and collaborate with Marquette’s chair in real estate, creating fertile ground for your own growth as a real estate professional.

BUILD. Marquette’s program keeps the emphasis on real estate where it belongs: on practical applications, not just theory. You’ll learn how to apply principles of market analysis, financing and development with respect to commercial real estate — literally building from the ground up in some cases. And because you’ll graduate as an applied decision-maker, not just a number cruncher, you’ll already have the skills employers demand.

Suggested Curriculum

 Your major courses blue.

FRESHMAN
Foundations for Business Leadership
Rhetoric and Composition I & II
Histories of Cultures and Societies Elective
Science and Nature Elective
Introduction to Theology
Philosophy of Human Nature
Finite Mathematics
Elements of Calculus
Public Speaking
Two Non-business Electives

SOPHOMORE
Developing Critical Skills for Business Leadership
Business Statistics
Principles of Financial Accounting
Principles of Managerial Accounting
Principles of Macroeconomics
Principles of Microeconomics
Literature Elective
Diverse Cultures Elective
Theory of Ethics
Theology Elective
Non-business Elective

JUNIOR
Introduction to Financial Management
Principles of Real Estate Development
Real Estate Finance
Applying Business Leadership Skills
Introduction to Marketing
Applied Business Economics
Introduction to Information Technology
Behavior and Organization
Operations and Supply Chain Management
Business Elective

Non-business Elective

SENIOR
Three Real Estate Electives
Strategies for Entering the Business World
Business Policies
Ethical and Societal Issues Elective
Legal and Regulatory Environment Elective
Three Business Electives
Two Non-business Electives

Downtown Milwaukee WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH IT
Marquette has worked closely with the real estate community to develop this major to prepare students for commercial real estate careers in mortgage lending at banks and life insurance companies, property development, leasing and investment sales, property and asset management, pension and equity investment, consulting, and retail site selection and construction, among other specialties. The following firms’ commercial real estate operations have a relationship with Marquette’s real estate majors:

• Chase Corp.
• Collateral Mortgage Capital
• Irgens Development Partners
• KBS Construction
• Marshall & Ilsley Corp.
• Mandel Group Inc.


• Northwestern Mutual Financial Network

• Newcastle Properties
• Opus North
• Pabst Farms Development
• WISPARK

• US Bank


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