The Department of Urban and Regional Planning, in cooperation with the College of Business, offers a graduate certificate in real estate development. Urban planners need to have extensive knowledge of real estate development in order to adequately and efficiently regulate and work with real estate developers. In turn, developers must be able to operate in an environment in which land use and environmental planning and regulation are critical to the success of their projects. Together, planners and developers must have a joint understanding of the real estate development process and the role that planning plays in shaping and regulating that process.

The certificate is available to any graduate student admitted and enrolled in either the master's program or Ph.D. program in urban and regional planning or the MBA program in the College of Business . Students must be in good academic standing.

To complete the certificate, students are required to complete 18 hours of class work in the following areas:

• comprehensive planning and growth management,
• real estate tools,
• land use and real estate law,
• design and development,
• market analysis, and
• investment and development.

A project seminar in real estate investment serves as the capstone course for the certificate. The project seminar class will be the capstone class for the Certificate. It will not serve as the capstone for Urban and Regional Planning's MSP degree. Information on coursework and specific requirements may be obtained by contacting the Department of Urban and Regional Planning.

Program Overview
Students will have to complete 18 credit hours. The student's advisor must approve the student's program of study. Transfer credits will not be accepted. Students must maintain a minimum 3.0 GPA in certificate classes in order to receive the certificate. Please see the Program of Study below for a list of required and elective courses.

Program of Study
FOUNDATION COURSES (3 credits required)

URP 5312: Comprehensive Planning and Growth Management (3 cr.)

REAL ESTATE TOOLS COURSES (at least 3 credits required)

REE 5935: Real Estate Finance (3 cr.)

LAND USE AND REAL ESTATE LAW (at least 3 credits required)

URP 5125: Plan Implementation (3 cr.)

REE 5435: Real Estate and Its Legal Environment (3 cr.)

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT (at least 3 credits required)

URP 5873: Site Design and Land Use Analysis (3 cr.)

URP 5742: Housing and Community Development (3 cr.)

URP 5881: Urban Design (3 cr.)

MARKET ANALYSIS/TOOLS (at least 3 credits required)

URP 5272: Urban Information Systems (3 cr.)

URP 5939: Urban Economics (3 cr.)

--additional courses to be determined.

INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (at least 3 credits required)

REE 5305: Real Estate Investment - Project Seminar (3 cr.)

REE 5315: Real Estate Feasibility - Project Seminar (3 cr.)