UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM:
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a Concentration in Real Estate
The undergraduate program in business administration is grounded in a broad-gauged education in the liberal arts and sciences designed to prepare the students for responsible judgment in a wide variety of cultural and social settings. Real estate provides a strong foundation for careers in wide range of fields including commercial and residential real estate, construction, architectural services, banks and insurance, shopping center and industrial park management, law firms, and government. The undergraduate program provides a solid basis for graduate work in many fields including finance and law.
The primary purpose of the undergraduate business administration program at Monmouth University is to prepare students for successful careers through a strong liberal-arts and an effective contemporary business education.
The program provides an education that helps qualify its graduates for positions of leadership in private and public sectors. Curricula are developed, taught, and regularly updated by a faculty with strong academic and business experience. They stress the development of critical thinking, sophisticated communication skills, and a flexible managerial perspective.
Who Should Consider a Concentration in Real Estate?
Students who possess strong mathematical, analytical, and entrepreneurial skills should consider a concentration in real estate. Students are exposed to finance, development, law, construction, and other facets of the real estate business. This is the only program of its kind in New Jersey. It stresses practical, real-world applications with opportunities for study in special topics. The case study method is used to focus on such issues as the components of a successful project, challenges facing the industry, and financing through new sources of capital. All courses are taught by credentialed and seasoned professionals.
The proximity of Monmouth University to corporate headquarters, the finance industry, and the federal government offers unique internship and career opportunities in New Jersey, New York, and Washington, D.C.
The Monmouth Advantage
Monmouth University is the right place for the student who needs to get answers directly from the faculty and hopes to interact one-on-one with researchers and practitioners in the field. With a total enrollment, including graduate students, of approximately 6,000, Monmouth is small enough to encourage close student-faculty interaction but is large enough to offer the diversity and resources of most state universities.
The Leon Hess Business School at Monmouth University is accredited by AACSB—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the premier accrediting organization for business schools worldwide.
