MIT MSRED VS CORNELL DUAL MBA/MPSRE

Between MIT MSRED and CORNELLS dual MBA and Masters in Real Estate, which carries more weight recruitment wise? Does MITs reputation trump Cornells more thorough 3 year program? Im international, and want to get a good understanding of the financial and investment aspects of real estate. My background is architecture and development, hopefully use the program to transition to a REIT or REPE firm in acquisitions and Asset Management.

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Agreed. MIT has the best MSRED/MRED program around but it still cant place graduates like top MBA programs. If you're trying to move from the design/development side to the finance side of the table, an MRED will be of minimal value considering your background. Do Cornell or, better yet, just do a regular 2 year MBA from a program with a real estate concentration (Wharton, Columbia, NYU, Cal, etc.) and save a year of dough and opportunity cost.

 

Cornell has a great rep in the real estate industry. Not sure whether a dual degree is worth much but I'd go with Cornell MBA here unless you can do Wharton, Columbia or other similar MBA school but not Stern

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