Real Estate (Minor)
This program was approved for students entering the university in the Summer 2025-Spring 2026 catalog year. For more information about catalog year, go to Catalog Year Information.
Minor in Real Estate
Unit: College of Business
Academic Plan Code(s): REALMINOR
The College of Business offers a minor in Real Estate which is open to all students at the University of Louisville, with the program starting in Spring 2024.
For business majors, enrollment in either a BSBA or BBA College of Business degree program and completion of business program prerequisites with a 2.8 GPA is required for acceptance into the Real Estate minor.
Students who are not enrolled in the College of Business will need to have completed 51 credit hours, with a cumulative GPA of 2.8 or higher and also completion of program prerequisites with at least a 2.8 GPA.
The minimum total hours for the minor is 24 credit hours.
Program Prerequisites
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ACCT 201 | Principles of Financial Accounting | 3 |
| ECON 201 | Principles of Microeconomics - SB | 3 |
| BSTA 201 | Business Statistics 1 | 3 |
| Minimum Total Hours | 9 | |
Program Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| FIN 301 | Corporate Finance | 3 |
| or FIN 302 | Business Finance | |
| FIN 320 | Real Estate Finance and Investments | 3 |
| ECON 311 | Real Estate Economics | 3 |
| FIN 323 | Real Estate Law | 1.5 |
| FIN 422 | Real Estate Development and Management | 3 |
| Electives | ||
| Select at least one course from the following: | 1.5-3.0 | |
| Urban Economics | ||
| Financial Markets and Institutions | ||
| Collaboration and Negotiation-SB - SB | ||
| Special Topics in Finance 2 | ||
| Co-op in Finance I | ||
or FIN 398 | Co-op in Finance II | |
| Minimum Total Hours | 15-16.5 | |
At least three (3) semester hours of the requirements for a minor must be successfully completed while enrolled in the University of Louisville.
- 1
The following courses also meet the statistics requirements: MATH 109, PSYC 301, SOC 301, ISE 360, MATH 360, PHST 302, POLS 390, BSTA 301, MGMT 201, or equivalent.
- 2
FIN 490 is the general Special Topics in Finance course. For this requirement, the Special Topic would be a current Special Real Estate topic, as specified later.
