MBA/Real Estate Development (M.B.A.)

Thomas Jefferson University - INTO USA

The program welcomes students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, fostering collaboration and problem-solving within multidisciplinary teams. The curriculum is rooted in design thinking and emphasizes discovery, empathy, and experimentation. Students are encouraged to develop creative, viable solutions to complex business problems by leveraging their peers' varied perspectives and experiences. The concentration in Real Estate Development introduces the economic, social and physical issues inherent in environmentally and fiscally sustainable real estate and land-use development. Through real-world case studies presented by leading developers, coursework encompasses market analysis and valuation, finance and investment, legal issues of ownership and land-use, public-private partnerships, urban regeneration and adaptive reuse, construction science and management, in addition to multiple design and development paradigms and their long-term local, national, and global impacts. Sustainable strategies inform a curriculum sensitive both to the ethical dimension of development and the parameters of a capital-driven market. This concentration is a collaboration between the School of Business and the MS in Real Estate Development in the College of Architecture, Design & Engineering.