MSRE Practicum

Catalog description

In this final seven-week mini semester of the online master's in real estate program, no other courses are taken. Here, students will synthesize entrepreneurial, economic, financial, managerial, legal, analytical and decision-making processes involved in real estate investment, development and deal structuring. They will build off their initial draft of the practicum in the Fusion course and will be provided with additional incremental supplements from the Real Estate Executive Counsel. Interaction with the professor will take the form of weekly group progress reports and ad-hoc short meetings with the professor and the group on a semi-weekly basis. The final deliverables for this course will be equivalent to a master's thesis in a professional program and will include: A final group practicum project and analytical model(s); A final set of presentation slides; A 30-minute live oral presentation and Q&A made to the professor, designees of the Real Estate Counsel, other professionals, government regulators and academics from and outside the university determined by the professor. This presentation will be a formal critique (aka 'crit'). While the focus may change from year to year, the structure will be the same. A project focus will be determined by the academic and industry leadership involved in the online master's in real estate program. Students will work in groups and will produce professional-quality projects that shall include robust financial analyses, insightful evaluations, and both written work and presentations. Presentations and the work will be evaluated and critiqued by the industry experts and academics involved in structuring the practicum for the year.