The Graduate Program leading to a Master of Real Estate Development is based in the School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, but it is NOT a design degree. It was the 6th program in the country to offer a comprehensive business based, but multi-disciplinary, approach to real estate development education. There are now more than 20 of these programs offered across the US that recognize that real estate development in its actual practice is multi-disciplinary and requires weighing the financing and investment options in conjunction with consideration of the construction, design, planning and asset management of real estate. In sum -- Real Estate Development -- is all of the above: Finance Plus And education for everyone who has an interest in the regulation, development, acquisition, financing or management of real estate will be more effective if they have completed a comprehensive degree about real estate, and not simply 2 or 3 courses about finance and valuation.<br><br>The 33-42 credit MRED program stresses a comprehensive approach to real estate development, broadly defined, and encompasses traditional real estate finance topics but goes on to address the full range of development issues--from property acquisition, to planning and permitting, contract and property law, investment and finance, design and construction, as well as marketing, commercial leasing, property, portfolio and asset management. The program aims to assure that graduates can effectively engage lenders, investors, architects, contractors, lawyers, accountants, and public officials as well as how to bring a project in on time with dynamic marketing and efficient property management thereafter.