Masters in Real Estate for Investment Banking?

Currently debating pursuing a masters degree after not planning out my career path well during undergrad. I was wondering if anyone has, or knows of someone who successfully got into IB (particularly RE coverage) through a masters in RE? Ultimiately I'd like to work in REPE someday and it seems IB provides a nice path towards that. My undergrad is in business (finance major) from a school well represented in IB & PE, and the masters program is relatively young but from a top business school.

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I don't know anyone who specifically got a Masters in Real Estate but it's still pretty common to get your Masters degree then apply for FT recruiting. I don't see why it would be any different. You also have to factor in that 2021 FT recruiting is going to surge from the ramp of in deal flow next year.

 
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I would think LinkedIn could be your friend here, search for alum of the programs you are looking for and see where they work.

Being in NYC, where there are a lot of people in I-banking, I feel like I know of people with MSRE/Ds from the big NE programs that work in all areas of RE finance, so I'm guessing some must be in I-banking (but I can't think of a great example off hand). To note, what you are describing sounds a bit like an 'experienced hire' type of recruitment, i.e. you are slotted to a team like real estate. That is different that general grad school recruiting, and an MSRE person with prior experience (even if just related, not IB), will get reviewed differently and by different team than the FT MBA applicants will.

 

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