Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development

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The Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development (MSRED) degree is an interdisciplinary one-year graduate program that prepares students from diverse backgrounds to become effective and influential participants in the fields of real estate finance, design, and development. We equip our graduates with a blended education in business, economics, sustainable design, urbanism, and legal issues. The MSRED degree is practice-oriented and emphasizes opportunities for students to gain experience and build a professional network in innovative for-profit, nonprofit and public settings.

• Faculty of Industry Professionals: Learn from current practitioners who bring real-world experience and a commitment to teaching.
• Experiential Learning: Get direct field experience through structured internships, client-based research projects, and field study trips to learn the challenges and successes in other cities nationally.
• Alumni Success: MSRED alumni are making an impact on high-level leadership positions across the industry.
• Connections with Local and National Organizations: Build a professional network through interaction with industry professionals at the local, state and national levels.

Key Facts

• Program Length: Full time (one year) or part-time (two years)
• Start Date: June 2020
• Small Class Size: 18-24 students
• Dual Degree Options: MBA/MSRED, M.Arch/MSRED, and MPS/MSRED tracks available
• Career Opportunities: Project Manager, Financial Analyst, Development Associate, Consultant, Principal, Owner/Developer

Important Dates

• October 1, 2019 – Online Application Opens
• November 7, 2019, 5 to 8 pm – Fall Open House
• November 15, 2019 - Virtual Open House
• January 15, 2020 – Application Deadline

Why Study Real Estate Development in New Orleans?

New Orleans is a vibrant and rapidly growing city, with unique opportunities and persistent challenges related to reinvestment, revitalization and innovative development strategies. In the effort to rebuild an economy and focus on environmental solutions to protect this region, New Orleans and Tulane are at the forefront of the sustainable development movement. As affordable housing and economic development needs are considered, and neighborhoods and businesses are rebuilt, questions emerge constantly regarding density, market growth, and economic value in relation to community, the environment and a personal connection to the city. This program addresses these questions while examining successful case studies throughout North America and the world.

Curriculum

Our curriculum gives students a deep understanding of fundamental real estate principles. The core courses include:

• SRED 6100 Introduction to Real Estate Finance & Economics
• SRED 6110 Introduction to Sustainable Architecture
• SRED 6130 Introduction to Sustainable Urbanism
• SRED 6140 Introduction to Real Estate Finance Products
• SRED 6400 Urban Field Study
• SRED 6210 Legal Issues in Real Estate Development
• SRED 6220 Sustainable Urban Design
• SRED 6230 Real Estate Finance
• SRED 6240 Applied Urban Economics
• SRED 6720 Case Studies in Sustainable Real Estate
• SRED 6740 Directed Research

In addition to the core curriculum, students choose from a variety of elective courses to further enhance their understanding of specific real estate topics, including:

• SRED 6340 Building Performance & Benchmarking
• SRED 6460 Community Development Finance
• SRED 6560 Business of Real Estate
• ARCH 6764 NOLA Geography for Architects
• ARCH 6212 Materials & Methods

Fall Internships

As part of MSRED’s practice-based education, students have the opportunity to complete a paid internship with local nonprofits, development companies, or local government partners. For these GIGs (“Graduate Internship, GO!”), selected students work with the partner for approximately 15 hours/week on a specific project: conducting research, participating in meetings and engaging in the real work of development. Each GIG is designed to foster mentoring relationships between the host partner and the MSRED student. These experiences also result in tangible work products and professional relationships that can help jump-start a career in real estate.

Directed Research

MSRED students collaborate with a professional partner to complete a directed research project during the spring semester. This research gives students an opportunity to apply and deepen their knowledge while gaining practical experience and building a professional network. Research partners can be in New Orleans or around the globe. The public presentation of each student’s final work product is attended by industry professionals and is a further chance to demonstrate skills, build confidence and make connections.

The Tulane University School of Architecture is committed to pushing for excellence without reservation in the fields of Architecture, Preservation, and Sustainable Real Estate Development.

We are located in the heart of the Gulf Coast, where all the challenges of human inhabitation of the planet are at stake. Here, we have the opportunity to define the role of architecture in front of climate change, coastal and riparian crisis, the process of urbanization under these circumstances, and the challenges for social and environmental justice.

We believe this is a historic moment in the best possible place on earth to be an architect and an educator.

Tulane University does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, age, disability, military, veteran status or any other protected status or classification under federal, state or local law in its programs and activities.

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The Tulane School of Architecture provides a world-class education in architecture, preservation, and sustainable real estate development. These programs, from undergraduate to graduate levels, equip future graduates with the basic intellectual, cultural and technical skills needed to be relevant in reversing social inequalities and ecological disruptions.

The school’s teaching and research advance the fields in the most relevant topics of today, such as climate change, coastal and riparian crisis, the process of urbanization under these circumstances, and the challenges for social and environmental justice.

At the School of Architecture, education takes place in the classroom and in the community. The impact of our students, faculty, and graduates can be seen across the globe and right here in New Orleans at the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design and URBANbuild.

Degree Programs:

• Bachelor of Architecture
• Bachelor of Science in Architecture
• Master of Architecture I
• Master of Architecture II
• Master of Preservation Studies
• Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development

Outreach Programs:

• Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design
• URBANbuild
• Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
• Career Explorations in Architecture (Summer pre-college program)

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Research

Tulane University is the only top research university located in a region that deals with the most pressing social, environmental, economic challenges. Solving these urgent problems – housing people, working with communities to bring them back, developing new scenarios to inhabit our rivers and deltas – are deeply rooted in Tulane’s identity. Our university is committed to work that brings innovation by crossing disciplinary boundaries.

Tulane School of Architecture has a long history of commitment to addressing real issues and generating new knowledge, especially after Hurricane Katrina and our leadership in helping our communities rebuild. And as architects, educated to lead complex teams to deal with complex issues, our work is fundamentally interdisciplinary and inventive.

Research and innovation at Tulane School of Architecture is focused in two main areas: 1) Empowerment of Communities through Architecture and 2) River and Delta Urbanism, which are accomplished through professional design excellence and leadership in design education.

The school’s Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design and URBANbuild are two nationally and internationally recognized programs that provide students and faculty the opportunity to work on local community-based projects through internships, studio and class projects, and design-build opportunities. The Yamuna River Project is an interdisciplinary research program whose objective is to revitalize the ecology of the Yamuna River in New Delhi, thus reconnecting India’s capital city back to the water.