Why UCLA? Why Now?

Made for This Moment

Built With Industry
UCLA MRED was designed in close partnership with the real estate industry. A 30-member advisory board helps shape the program, and approximately 85% of courses are taught by leading practitioners. Students learn from real-world projects, current market challenges and professionals actively working across the industry.

A Customizable Program
Students can tailor their MRED experience through stackable certificates, specialized mini-courses and other focused learning opportunities. Current certificate offerings include Affordable Housing, Real Estate Investment and Sustainability, with additional programs in development in areas such as artificial intelligence and real estate technology, real estate entrepreneurship, and global real estate.

Mini-courses provide further opportunities to explore emerging and specialized sectors, including data centers, hospitality, adaptive reuse, industrial and logistics real estate, and more.

Hands-On, Real-World Experience
Experiential learning is built into the MRED curriculum. UCLA’s distinctive four-quarter structure includes an integrated 10-week summer practicum, giving students the opportunity to apply what they have learned to real-world development challenges. Internship opportunities further connect classroom learning with professional experience.

Forward-Looking by Design
The real estate industry is changing rapidly, and UCLA MRED is designed for what comes next. Students explore emerging approaches to housing affordability, sustainability, climate resilience, artificial intelligence and real estate technology, as well as the changing ways people live and work. The program prepares graduates not simply to respond to change, but to help shape the future of the built environment.

Los Angeles as a Living Laboratory
Few places offer a richer environment for studying real estate development than Los Angeles. The region encompasses an extraordinary range of markets, communities and development conditions, from the Westside and South Bay to Orange County and the Inland Empire.

Students encounter issues that are reshaping cities around the world, including housing affordability, climate resilience, complex entitlement processes, changing transportation patterns and major investments in infrastructure and development. As Los Angeles prepares to host the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the region also offers a firsthand view of how a global city evolves through large-scale investment and transformation.

Developing the Whole Professional
Technical expertise is only part of becoming an effective real estate leader. UCLA MRED helps students develop the communication, relationship-building, leadership and professional skills needed to advance throughout their careers. A weekly Career Capital series complements the academic curriculum with practical preparation designed to help students succeed from their first day on the job through future leadership roles.

The Resources of UCLA
UCLA MRED students benefit from the resources of one of the world’s leading public research universities and from a global community of UCLA alumni. The program is also part of a robust real estate ecosystem that draws on expertise and activity across UCLA, including the Ziman Center for Real Estate, the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, cityLAB and other centers and initiatives working at the intersection of real estate, cities, housing and the built environment.

Resources UCLA MREDs can draw upon across Luskin and campus include:

• Ziman Center for Real Estate
• Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
• UCLA cityLAB
• Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
• Luskin Center for Innovation
• Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
• Institute of Transportation Studies
• Center for Neighborhood Knowledge
• Latino Policy and Politics Institute
• Agile Visual Analytics Lab
• Hub for Health Intervention, Policy and Practice
• Latin American Cities Initiative

Study in the Heart of Los Angeles

Los Angeles is an exceptional place to learn and practice real estate. As a dynamic and resilient region with a robust, diversified economy, Los Angeles is a truly global city that provides an exciting and dynamic living laboratory to study real estate. Beyond its ideal weather, world-class beaches, diverse neighborhoods and leading food culture, Los Angeles is remaking itself into a more walkable, urban city, with unparalleled transit investments as it prepares to host the 2028 Olympic games.

Our Industry Partners

The MRED serves as a bridge from scholars to industry leaders, forging invaluable relationships with practitioners and policymakers. Industry experts will play a prominent role in delivering the curriculum, teaching 70% of its classes and strengthening the program’s practice orientation and linkages to the real estate industry. The industry partners will also be deeply involved in enhancing students’ opportunities for learning beyond the classroom.