BS Real Estate Major Required Courses (Description)

BLW 300 Real Estate Law - back to overview
This course reviews the essential legal requirements of real estate transactions.

FIN 202 Quantitative Reasoning - back to overview
Quantitative Reasoning. PREREQUISITE: ECO 105, ECO 106; plus either BMS 125, BMS 126, BMS 142 or MAT150, MAT 151, MAT 348.

RE 350* Real Estate Analysis - back to overview
This course introduces essential institutional, legal, regulatory, and financial aspects of real estate in the U.S. economy and financial system. The course incorporates demographic data for real estate market analysis and includes an exercise in land use planning. PREREQUISITE: Junior Standing.

RE 352* Real Estate Finance - back to overview
Patterns of financing real estate property, including individual, commercial and industrial-relates to capital structure analysis. Institutional analysis, including middlemen and ultimate financing sources-relates to capital market analysis. Leverage effects, collateral and protective devices-relates to risk and return analysis. PREREQUISITE: FIN 310 and RE 350*.

RE 353* Real Estate Investment - back to overview
Property evaluation-relates to economics and security analysis. Real estate investment decisions-relates to risk analysis, portfolio construction and management, cash flow (including taxes) analysis, and investment strategy. PREREQUISITE: FIN 310, RE 350* and RE 352*.

To declare a major in Real Estate, a student must meet the following requirements:

Completion of 28 hours at DePaul University.
Completion of the Introductory Commerce courses with:
- a minimum grade of C- in each course.
- a minimum grade point average of 2.0 for the combined courses.
A minimum cumulative DePaul grade point average of 2.7.
A minimum Real Estate grade point average of 2.7.
No grade of IN, R, M or lower than C- in any Real Estate course or course used toward the Real Estate major.
Completion of FIN 310 or RE 350 with a minimum grade of B-.

Through the office of The Real Estate Center there are opportunities for scholarships, internships, and placement referral.

In addition students are welcome to participate in REO, the Real Estate Organization.

*Course designation has changed from FIN to RE. Effective fall quarter 2009.