Courses

The Abbey MRED+D's interdisciplinary curriculum goes beyond tradition to foreground design + urbanism, sustainability + resilience, and equity + inclusion, alongside the hard skills--finance, construction, law, market analysis--every developer needs to learn. Graduates emerge uniquely prepared to tackle the grand challenges facing contemporary cities, with plenty of hands-on experience to complement classroom instruction. Both the full-time program and part-time program share the same curriculum.

Students are able to take up to 6 (full-time) or 3 (part-time) optional elective units in the Fall and Spring terms, in any class with seats available, at no additional cost. For those who would like to further customize their program and dive deep into one area of real estate development, we offer three concentration options: Affordable Housing, Finance + Investment, and Sustainability + Resilience. To pursue a concentration, students will take on a full-time summer internship following the first year of the program and return for one extra term in the fall to take additional specified elective units and work on an Independent Research Project related to the concentration area.

All students participate in the national Urban Land Institute Annual Fall Meeting, and complete a capstone project. Capstone projects synthesize knowledge from the full Abbey MRED+D curriculum to propose a program for a predetermined site.