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Santa Clara University

Bachelor of Finance with a Real Estate Minor

Program overview

The real estate minor offers undergraduate students from various academic backgrounds opportunities to cultivate essential skills, empowering them to establish and guide real estate enterprises in addressing these challenges.

Last updated: May 1, 2024

Leavey School of Business

738 Franklin Street Santa Clara, CA 95053, USA

2018

Academic Information

Degree offered

Bachelor of Finance with a Real Estate Minor

Length of program

Between sophomore-junior year

Mode of learning

On Campus

Unique real estate academic features

The Real Estate minor enables undergraduate students from diverse academic backgrounds to cultivate essential skills, empowering them to contribute to, establish, and lead real estate enterprises. Drawing from numerous disciplines, this multidisciplinary field encompasses the financing, acquisition, development, and ongoing management of real estate. The curriculum is tailored to offer students across various disciplines, both within and outside the business school, the chance to discover how to apply their academic expertise to the realm of real estate.

Courses and disciplines/concentrations offered

Core Course:

  • Real Estate Principles

At least one course from:

  • Introduction to Real Estate Transactions
  • Real Estate Development

Primary Elective List:

  • Real Estate Finance
  • Real Estate Law
  • Real Estate Economics
  • Introduction to GIS
  • Urban and Environmental Planning
  • Introduction to Construction Management
  • Design for Sustainable Construction / Sustainable Real Estate

Secondary Elective List:

  • Engineering Project Management
  • Entrepreneurial Finance
  • Data Science with Python
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Applied Machine Learning
  • Social Media Analytics
  • Sustainability Marketing

Real Estate Extracurricular Opportunities

Notable traditions & events

  • Location of Innovation-a real estate symposium
  • Speaker Series Events

Real estate extracurricular activities available

  • Property Tour & Association Social
  • Career Fair Prep
  • Career Fair

Networking opportunities

  • SCU Real Estate Association

Recruiting

General info on roles students fill after graduation

  • Capital Markets: Investment Sales, Debt/Equity
  • Investment
  • Development & Investment
  • Leasing Brokerage
  • Research
  • Operations: Property Management, Project Management, Program Management, Construction Management
  • Magnify
  • Master Properties
  • Marcus & Millichap
  • Matthews Real Estate Investment Services
  • McCandless Management
  • McCarthy Ranch
  • Newmark
  • Nordic Partners
  • Northmarq
  • Oak Street RE Capital
  • Oaktree Capital Management
  • PCCP
  • PGIM
  • PwC
  • Raise Commercial Real Estate
  • Sares|Regis
  • Saratoga Capital
  • Savills
  • Shorenstein
  • Sodexo
  • Stanford LBRE
  • Tilden Properties
  • Walker & Dunlop
  • Wells Fargo

Common employers​

  • 11 Capital
  • Acacia Capital
  • Andersen
  • Avalon Group
  • Avison Young
  • Blackstone
  • Brixton Capital
  • CBRE – Multiple Divisions
  • Cochran Booth
  • Cushman & Wakefield
  • Eastdil Secured
  • EQ Office
  • Ewing & Clark
  • First Hawaiian Bank
  • Fortify Holdings
  • Fortress Investments
  • Gantry
  • Gemini Rosemont
  • Goldman Sachs
  • HP Investors
  • Institutional Property Advisors
  • JLL – Multiple Divisions
  • JNR Management
  • JPMorgan Chas
  • KeyBank
  • Kroll
  • Lyon Stahl

Faculty and Research

Faculty & Staff for the Program

Distinguished real estate faculty members or research areas

Elyas Fermand

Faculty Director-SCU Real Estate Institute & Assistant Professor-Finance

Matt DiNapoli

Professor, SCU Advisory Board & President/CEO-Dinapoli Capital Partners

Jim Whelan

Advisory Board Member, Professor

Alumni Support

Successful real estate alumni

Carrick Young

Director-Cushman & Wakefield

Marko Buljan

Associate VP-Commercial Real Estate-Matthews Real Estate Investment Service

Gina Blancarte

District Vice President-Women's Council of REALTORS

Real estate alumni networks and associations

  • Real Estate Alumni Community

Financial Information

Tuition fees

60,639

Financial aid

Available.

Scholarships

Available.

General information

Where is the program housed on campus?

738 Franklin Street Santa Clara, CA 95053, USA

State of the art Facilities

Santa Clara is a world-class institution with the infrastructure to support it. From cutting-edge research laboratories to contemplative spaces for quiet reflection. The 50+ buildings on campus include the Mission Santa Clara de Asis, 10 residence halls, a spacious library/learning commons, the Center of Performing Arts, a 2,200 square-foot television studio, state-of-the-art classrooms, the de Saisset Museum, and extensive athletic facilities.

Campus Size

The Santa Clara University is a private institution with a campus size of 106 acres.

Contact Information

Office of Undergraduate Admission

Patricia A. and Stephen C. Schott Admission & Enrollment Services Building, Bldg. 406, 738 Franklin Street Santa Clara, CA 95050, USA

408-554-4700

SCU Real Estate Association

500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California 95050, USA

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