<p>I don't understand why one would concentrate on real estate in college as a major when he/she could just take a class with Long & Foster for about a month to a year to get certified as an agent. I want to know if there is a difference between going to college for real estate and getting certified with a real estate firm?</p>
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<p>Well, at my school you have the option of concentrating in real estate finance, which I assume would be helpful if you were looking into careers related to real estate like Real Estate IB or Real Estate PE or even Real Estate Development.</p>
<p>Other then that I'm not sure why someone would go to college to just get real estate classes done to be an agent.</p>
<p>Most RE majors at the better programs go into RE finance/investments, consulting, or development. All interesting and well paid fields but not well known. Top 5 programs are Penn, Wisconsin, UGA, UCB, Uconn.</p>
<p>Yeah, most don't study real estate to be a real estate AGENT. Theres a big difference between that and the consulting/investment/development aspects of real estate. Think donald trump ;)</p>
<p>dcfca, do any BB firms have real estate IB groups and can analysts/associates specialize in these groups or can they not specialize in a specific field like that? also, where do you get your information on the different groups inside BB banks?</p>
<p>All BB's will have real estate IB groups, google 'real estate investment banking' and you'll come up with tons of results.</p>
<p>As for finding out what groups are good in a bank, certain things like overall M&A activity are ranked by Thomson, but additionally I mean you can tell my the deal flow, who's representing the biggest clients in the biggest deals, that sort of thing.</p>