Bachelor of Business Administration in Real Estate to Master of Science in Real Estate Fast Track
About This Program
The Bachelor of Business Administration in Real Estate to Master of Science in Real Estate Fast Track enables outstanding senior undergraduate students in the College of Business to satisfy degree requirements leading to the Real Estate MS while completing their undergraduate studies. Pathways are available from any undergraduate degree in the College that includes the required fast track foundations courses.
Associated Programs
For detailed information about the programs associated with this Fast Track, refer to their individual degree pages.
Admissions Criteria
An undergraduate Business student will apply:
- within 30 hours of completing a bachelor's degree
- upon completion of at least 30 hours at UTA, achieving an overall UTA GPA of 3.3 or better
- with an overall GPA of 3.3 or better in all college courses (at all schools), and
- with a UTA Business GPA of 3.3 or better.
Additionally, a candidate must have completed at UTA Arlington 12 hours of undergraduate fast track foundation courses with a minimum GPA of 3.5:
- ECON 3310 MICROECONOMICS or ECON 3312 MACROECONOMICS
- FINA 3313 BUSINESS FINANCE
- REAE 3325 REAL ESTATE FUNDAMENTALS
- BSTAT 3321 INTERMEDIATE STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS ANALYTICS or BSTAT 3322 ADVANCED STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS ANALYTICS
For automatic admission to the MS Real Estate program, students must complete the following graduate courses:
- REAE 5311 REAL ESTATE ANALYSIS
- REAE 5314 SEMINAR IN REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT
- REAE 5334 SEMINAR IN REAL ESTATE APPRAISAL
An undergraduate student who successfully completes the fast track graduate coursework with grades of B or better will graduate with the undergraduate degree and will be automatically admitted to graduate study. The student will not be required to take the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT), will not have to complete the normal Graduate School application for admission, and will not have to pay the related application fee.
Curriculum
| Baccalaureate Program | ||
| Complete non-elective requirements for BBA including the following used to determine eligibility for the fast track: | 96 | |
| MICROECONOMICS | ||
or ECON 3312 | MACROECONOMICS | |
| BUSINESS FINANCE | ||
| REAL ESTATE FUNDAMENTALS | ||
| INTERMEDIATE STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS ANALYTICS | ||
or BSTAT 3322 | ADVANCED STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS ANALYTICS | |
| Complete elective requirements for BBA including the following, which also count toward the MBA: | 24 | |
| REAL ESTATE ANALYSIS | ||
| SEMINAR IN REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT | ||
| SEMINAR IN REAL ESTATE APPRAISAL | ||
| MS Foundations | ||
| REAE 5321 | SEMINAR IN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT | 3 |
| REAE 5319 | SEMINAR IN REAL ESTATE FINANCE | 3 |
| REAE 5315 | REAL ESTATE TRENDS & ISSUES | 3 |
| REAE 5350 | QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR REAL ESTATE | 3 |
| MS Electives | ||
| Select 9 hours with advisor approval. | 9 | |
| Total Hours | 141 | |