Target schools for Real Estate Finance
There's a difference in the top real estate undergrad programs versus the top finance undergrad programs. That leaves me wondering if there is a difference in target schools for REIB, REPE, REIT in terms of undergrad recruiting. I'm assuming most, if not all, of the target schools for regular IBD would remain the same, but are there any odd ones out? Thanks.
My junior and senior year of undergrad I did a case competition hosted by Villanova's RE program that i think had a lot of talented participants. It was a 2 day event in Philly and was one of the most rewarding things I experienced in college so I'd highly recommend participating in one if given the chance. I don't necessarily think these are the best or anything by any metric but it'll give you a sense of which schools are at least active and on the scene.
California Polytechnical State University, Colorado State University, Drexel University, Florida State University, Georgetown University, Lehigh University Monmouth University, New York University, Ohio State University, Penn State University, Rutgers University, Temple University, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, University of Wisconsin, Villanova University and Virginia Commonwealth University
The top schools that send lots of kids into real estate would probably be Wharton/Ross/Cornell. The other top Ivy's/Stanford/etc. don't have as many kids going into real estate, but that's more because most kids from those schools aren't interested in going into RE.
For NYC real estate, the schools with lots of Jewish kids do really well. I see a ton of kids from Tulane, Syracuse, Baruch, NYU, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan.