ASU Making Strides In Real Estate

The Arizona Republic, reports that ASU is now offering an MBA with a real estate concentration and a doctorate in business administration/real estate finance.

ASU has been teaching real estate courses for some time, but not as a major concentration. Community leaders and alumni told them in 2004 that they needed to improve the real estate program at ASU due to the importance of real estate to the Arizona economy.

ASU has also hired a top real estate scholar, Crocker Liu, to become the founding director of the new MBA program. Liu is the most publicized academic in the area of real estate investment finance. With Liu on board, ASU is talking with other experts and hopes to add another faculty member to the team. More...