A Note on the Origin of Real Estate in Collegiate Schools of Business Administration

In recent years real estate faculty in collegiate schools of business administration have raised the question of the purpose and direction of their courses, often seeking the underlying theoretical discipline that would make the study of real estate respectable (Diaz, 1993). The purpose of this paper is to review the origins of collegiate courses in real estate so that we can better understand why they are as they are. Perhaps by doing this, we can more clearly see how to improve them in order to provide the best collegiate real estate education for the next generation.