Elective Courses

Students must take a minimum of 24 units from the CRE Elective Course List. At least six of those 24 units must be taken in both fall and spring. The remaining units can be fulfilled from the Seminars and Electives courses as well as from courses across MIT.

International students may be required to take an English course during the first semester at MIT.
Please be aware of the Center for Real Estate’s MSRED EET POLICY

Fall Semester CRE Elective List*

A minimum of six units from the following courses must be taken in the fall semester.

  • 11.301: Introduction to Urban Design and Development (12 units)

  • 11.345: Entrepreneurship in Construction and Real Estate Development (6 units)

  • 11.351: Real Estate Ventures I (12 units)

  • 11.430: Leadership in Real Estate (6 units)

  • 15.401: Managerial Finance (9 units)

  • 11.S966: Mixed Income and Affordable Housing Policy and Finance (6 units)

Spring Semester CRE Elective List*

A minimum of six units from the following courses must be taken in the spring semester.

  • 11.246: DesignX Accelerator (12 units)

  • 11.333: Urban Design Seminar (9 units)

  • 11.344: Innovative Project Delivery (6 units)

  • 11.352: Real Estate Ventures II (12 units)

  • 11.353: Mortgage Securitization (9 units)

  • 11.355: International Housing Finance & Economics (9 units)

  • 11.434: Tools for Analysis: Design for Real Estate & Infrastructure Development (6 units)

  • 11.435: Mixed Income Housing Development (6 units)

The above course are letter graded. They can not be taken P/F unless the course itself is structured that way.


Supplemental Courses/Seminar


11.305: Doing Good by Doing Well: Mediating Public and Private Development (3 units)

11.S970: Corporate Real Estate (3 units)

11.S940: Economic Analysis of Urban Development & Environment (12 units)

11.321: Data Science & Machine Learning Principles for Real Estate (12 units)

11.325: Technological Change & Innovation for RE/Cities (6 units)

11.323: International RE Transactions (6 units)

11.962: Fieldwork – Real Estate (3 units)

In additional to the above courses, the Center for Real Estate runs Special Topics courses that focus on a wide variety of topics.