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With the emphasis on training in real estate, just look at Keller Williams, there is no surprise that degree programs in Real Estate are hitting college campuses. While to be a real estate agent this may be overkill, if you have the passion for real estate and want to make it a career, this is probably a very wise  path to take. Monmouth University has a generous donation from the Kislak family to fund the new program and will start offering this degree program in 2007.

The Kislak family will mark the 100th anniversary of the company’s founding by donating $2 million to Monmouth University to help start New Jersey’s first undergraduate major in real estate. The gift, due to be announced today on the West Long Branch campus, will be the second-largest in the private school’s history.
With the property market booming, the university is banking that real estate will be the next hot college major. The idea is to take what has been regarded as a trade and make it a legitimate scholarly pursuit.
“The roof over your head, the land under your bed … it’s all related to real estate. Over half the wealth in the country is real estate. And, I think, in New Jersey, that’s abundantly clear,” said Donald Moliver, director of Monmouth University’s Real Estate Institute. The institute opened in 1992.
Though real estate majors are still rare, the number of colleges and universities offering degrees in the field has doubled to about 65 over the last decade. DePaul University in Chicago, Portland State University in Oregon and Florida International University in Miami have all started undergraduate majors in recent years.

via NJ.com.

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