Graduate Field
Real Estate
Program Description
An option for most professional graduate students at Cornell.
The minor gives professional graduate students across the university the opportunity to take advantage of the wide variety of real estate courses offered by the Cornell Baker Program in Real Estate and other graduate-level classes offered by SC Johnson and the Nolan School especially, in addition to AAP and other colleges on campus.
Upon successful completion of the required classes, the Graduate Minor in Real Estate designation will appear on students' official Cornell transcript.
Graduate Minor Requirements
Required Coursework
Students, excepting those in the MMH program, must complete the following required courses totaling nine credits.
MMH students must complete the following required courses totaling nine credits.
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| HADM 6200 | Principles of Real Estate | 3 |
| HADM 7510 | Properties Development and Planning | 3 |
| HADM 6280 | Real Estate Finance and Investments | 3 |
| or HADM 6210 | Hospitality Real Estate Finance |
Elective Coursework
All students must take six credits total from the enrichment and complementary categories listed below. At least three of those credits must be from among the enrichment category. Students may take all six credits from the enrichment category to meet the elective requirements of the minor. Course enrollment may be subject to prerequisites. Course availability changes each semester and not all courses may be offered each semester. The Department of Real Estate will review and make decisions on alternative courses via petition.
Approved elective courses include:
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| HADM 6205 | Real Estate Financial Modeling | 3 |
| HADM 6250 | Securitization and Structured Financial Products | 3 |
| HADM 6255 | Real Estate Development | 3 |
| HADM 6870 | Real Estate Law | 3 |
| REAL 5560 | Creating the Built Environment (crosslisted) | 1.5 |
| REAL 5561 | Innovation and Strategy in Commercial Real Estate Development (crosslisted) | 1.5 |
| REAL 5590 | Land Use Law (crosslisted) | 3 |
| REAL 5950 | Construction Planning and Operations (crosslisted) | 3 |
| REAL 6560 | Real Estate Transactions and Deal Structuring (crosslisted) | 3 |
| REAL 6565 | International Cases and Contracts (crosslisted) | 2 |
| REAL 6580 | Residential and Commercial Development (crosslisted) | 4 |
| REAL 6595 | Special Topics in Real Estate (crosslisted) | 1-4 |
| NBA 5040 | Federal Income Taxation of Real Estate Ventures | 3 |
| CRP 6430 | Affordable Housing Policy and Programs (crosslisted) | 3 |
| HADM 6033 | Introduction to Senior Living and Related Programs (crosslisted) | 2 |
| HADM 6500 | Sustainable Development | 4 |
| HADM 6520 | Hospitality Asset Management | 3 |
| HADM 6570 | Project Management for Hospitality Real Estate Development | 3 |
| REAL 6230 | Real Estate Statistical Modeling | 1.5 |
