Real Estate (Minor)
This program was approved for students entering the university in the Summer 2024–Spring 2025 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 2 | 1.5 |
| FIN 422 | Real Estate Development and Management 2 | 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 3 | ||
| 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, or SOC 301.
- 2
Course under development by the College of Business; expected to be offered first in spring 2024.
- 3
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.
