Graduate Students

Existing Graduate Students and Alumni

One of the greatest assets students find in PSU's real estate classes is the breadth of knowledge and experience that students bring with them. With the median age of a Real Estate Certificate student being 29, most students are pursuing the Certificate while working and have varied backgrounds and experience, including but not limited to development, appraisal, architecture, public planning, brokerage, financing and lending, and market analysis. This leads to lively, interactive discussions in class where students learn from each others' experiences.

For a list of current certificate students and alumni of the program, please click on the following links:

Current Real Estate Development Certificate Students: click here

 

Graduate Student Receptions

The Center for Real Estate hosts a semi-annual Graduate Student Reception in the fall and spring terms. This event has been designed as a forum for potential employers and graduate students to meet, connect, and explore possible employment and internship opportunities. Clicke here for more information.

Mentorship Program

Students in the Graduate Certificate in Real Estate Development program have the unique opportunity to participate in a Mentor program with leaders from the local real estate industry. The Center offers two mentor programs:

• Counselors of Real Estate (CRE) Mentor Program

• Professionals from the esteemed CRE organization share insights from their successful careers in real estate with graduate students.
  
• Students have the opportunity to meet individually with CRE members to gain career advice, networking strategies, job shadowing, and resume review.
• Mentors host students at a professional real estate organization meeting in which they are involved.
  
• Congratulations to this year's CRE mentee students:
• Staci Beck
• Jordan Creighton
• Kiriann Denman
  
• Greg LeBlanc
• Karen Thalhammer

• One-on-one Mentor Program

• Students have the opportunity to meet individually with CRE members to gain career advice, networking strategies, job shadowing, and resume review.
• The Center's Mentors are leaders in the industry, all having 15+ years' experience in the real estate industry. Students gain valuable insight and knowledge about how to succeed in the industry through this program.
• Mentor Program Student Testimonials

• "The mentor program paired me with a senior professional active in the Portland real estate community who made time on a regular basis to share with me their experience, knowledge and advice about the local market. My mentor showed a sincere interest in my expereince, ambitions and future in the Portland market and has introduced me to a number of contacts that will assist in facilitating the achievement of my professional goals." Jordan Creighton, current student

• "Having a mentor was a great experience and I would definitely recommend this to anyone." Dan Johnson, 2007 Certificate Alumni
  

Development Workshop

The Development Planning Workshop is an interdisciplinary and participatory course in development planning focused on a specific new or adaptive reuse development project of regional significance. Acting as a group development team, each class produces a Development Plan intended to contribute realistic solutions to important issues of public policy as expressed through definable public-private development projects. The course collaboratively joins professional resources within the metropolitan urban community in urban, economic and sustainable development, urban planning, design and architecture, market analysis, finance, brokerage, management and law. Several real estate professionals act as mentors to the class, critiquing their proposed plan throughout the process. A formal presentation is made to several members of the community, with BOMA sponsoring the Spring workshop course and the Winter class competes in the NAIOP Competition in Seattle. Portland State University's Winter, 2007 NAIOP workshop team came in second place and the 2006 team won the competition.

Copies of the teams' project reports can be viewed by clicking on the following links:

2007 BOMA team project

2007 BOMA team powerpoint presentation

2006 NAIOP team project

2006 NAIOP team power point presentation

Click here to view the Spring 2006 Development Proposal Powerpoint Presentation.

Click here  for more information about the course requirements for the Graduate Certificate in Real Estate Development.

Undergraduate Students

Click here for detailed information about the course requirements for the Major in Real Estate Finance.

Click here for detailed information about the course requirements for the Minor in Real Estate Development.