UK Cambridge / LSE / UCL vs US Cornell / Columbia / NYU for MSRE Real Estate Masters

Which one is better for a career in RE?

UK vs US - specialization in different geographies?

Masters in Real Estate Programs

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I think this is way too vague. Seems like you've just thrown together the first colleges that came to your head.

Obviously, the first thing to consider is what market you want to end up in. New York? Go to Columbia, Cornell or NYU. London/Europe? Go to Cam/LSE/UCL. It's unlikley you'll be able to break into New York from a UK university, and because of the cost and salary differential, it's not going to be worth your while going from a US masters to London/Europe, nevermind the difficulty with networking. As far as I'm aware, you'd be looking at cost of ~£30k for the UK and ~$80k for New York.

Other than that, it generally seems like picking hairs as all are top schools and there's not much to differentiate between them. One caveat though, Cornell and Columbia seem to be more respected than NYU (primarily because of entry requirements) and Cambridge is more of an academic course rather than a carer-focused course which just means it might require slightly more networking to get a job than it would in LSE/UCL, although from Cambridge you're still on top of the game and top REPE and development roles are definitely within reach.

 

my first question, depends what citizenship you have ( because finding a company to sponsor you weither you study in US or UK is quite impossible ) I went to NYU for RE, I wouldn’t recommend as you got a lot of people who get into but as mentioned earlier they are not picky with selection of candidates, I’ve studied with different people good job holders, gold diggers, chinese who barely speak english, Europeans etc. now as a Market, I think London & NYC got plenty of opportunities ( in fact these are the only 2 places I got responses from ) I’d suggest Colombia for prestige it’s 1 year only program ( if you talk about graduate studies ) and it’s in NYC so better opportunities. but I’d tell you, it’s very hard to get into RE, even big developers it’s very hard to get a job! best luck, your question is too broad it will depend on many factors

 

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