When you enroll at Susquehanna, you’ll be paired with an advisor and application tool to guide you in your course planning and scheduling. The following is an excerpt from the complete course catalog. Enrolled students follow the requirements of the course catalog for the academic year in which they declare each major and/or minor, consult with their advisor(s) and the Academic Planning Tool.
Major in Real Estate
The Real Estate major is designed to develop the leaders needed to thrive in the real estate industry. Students are given an opportunity to develop skills in conjunction with a focus on real estate fundamentals, financial analysis, marketing, law and negotiations. Students will develop competencies around development, market underwriting, investment analysis, urban planning, appraisal, asset and risk management, brokerage and marketing.
Students may have the opportunity to earn real-estate certificates through the existing courses, and these certificates will enhance their real-world knowledge of real-estate topics.
Learning Goals
- Students will be able to analyze and make decisions regarding commercial real estate investment, deal structuring and financing
- Students will be able to discuss the role of real estate, both properties and securities, in corporate strategy and the global economy
- Students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of the legal aspects of real estate development within their strategic and financial planning
Double-counting restriction
A student can declare two majors within the Sigmund Weis School of Business, but they may not declare a double major in both 1) Marketing, and 2) Luxury Brand Marketing & Management. Students must complete all the requirements for both declared majors. Students may only double-count the courses included in the Business Foundation requirements. Therefore, if a course is used to satisfy a requirement of one major, that same course may not be used to fulfill a requirement of the second major within the School of Business.
Business Foundation Courses
Complete one of the following Introduction to Business classes:
4 MGMT-196 Global Business Perspectives
2 MGMT-138 Fundamentals of Business
Complete one of the following statistics classes:
4 MATH-108 Introduction to Statistics
4 MATH-180 Statistical Methods
4 MGMT-202 Business Statistics
4 PSYC-123 Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
Required courses:
4 ACCT-200 Financial Accounting
4 ACCT-210 Legal Environment
4 ACCT-230 Managerial Accounting
4 ECON-201 Principles of Macroeconomics
4 ECON-202 Principles of Microeconomics
4 FINC-340 Corporate Financial Management
4 INFS-174 Data Collection and Modeling
4 INFS-472 Data Insight and Visualization
2 MGMT-105 Introduction to Professional Development
4 MGMT-240 Principles of Management
4 MGMT-400 Business Policy and Strategy
4 MGMT-404 Global Business Ethics
4 MKTG-280 Marketing
No grade below a C- will be accepted toward graduation for foundation courses; upon earning a grade below C- in a foundation course, the student must retake the course the next semester in which it is offered. The course descriptions listed later in the catalog identify prerequisites, and these suggest a certain degree of order in completing the foundation. In addition to the foundation, first-semester business students enroll in MGMT-196 Global Business Perspectives (four semester hours), which provides an introduction to liberal studies and college life, as well as an overview of business functional areas, career opportunities and the Sigmund Weis School curriculum. This course satisfies the First-year Seminar requirement of the Central Curriculum.
Requirements for the Major in Real Estate
The Real Estate major requires completion of the business foundation. Students will also complete the following semester hours as follows:
14 Required Courses:
4 ACCT-375 Real Estate Law
4 FINC-375 Foundations of Real Estate
4 FINC-474 Real Estate Finance and Capital Markets
2 FINC-480 Real Estate Strategy
10 Select a minimum of 10 semester hours from the following:
2 ACCT-220 Introduction to Taxation
4 ACCT-344 Entrepreneurial Finance and Accounting
4 COMM-215 Introduction to Professional Selling
4 FINC-443 Equity Asset Analysis & Valuation
2-4 FINC-447 Topics in Real Estate
4 MGMT-350 International Business
4 MGMT-373 Managing for Sustainability
2 MGMT-379 Business Government Relations
2 MGMT-466 Negotiations
