Real estate - which degree?

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Hi Wickedfire!


What do you guys think is the best degree to get if I want to be a real estate investor, salesman, everything that is related to real estate.

I will do a distance learning degree just to have a degree but I'd prefer something that would be of use in a real estate career.


Choices:

-Finance and accounting (I think it may be the best)

-Commerce and marketing (I like)

-Tourism and hospitality ( Must be easy and fun )

-Business and management ( I like)

-International studies

-International business ( I like )

-Human resources

Also, what do you guys think is better:

A, No degree, hustle

B, Extremely hard to earn degree from a top ranked (10-500th) University

C, Hard to earn degree from a 'well' ranked ( around 1000th ) University

D, Easy to earn degree from a shit ranked ( around 3000-6000th ) University

I only need a degree for credibility, and just for safety and just to feel that I have a degree and cause at some places in some cases it is useful, I personally think that self education is the best but other people need signs of credibility ( like a degree, certificates, etc. )
I think the best for me would be the D, option.
Getting a distance learning degree at a shitty school would not cost me too much time, maybe max one month a year for 3-4 years. Getting a degree at a better ranked university would take I think 2 months a year for 3-4 years.


I am just interested maybe some of you have experience, ideas, advice.
 


stupid questions become successful and credibility never becomes an issue and if you go to a whore e-university diploma mill that will let you get a degree at any rate you want you have no credibility anyway
 
I have a bachelor degree in management from a prestigious university. Had I invested the insame amount of reading/classes/studying time making money on the internet, today I'd be a multimillonaire without a doubt.
 
I started hustling in real estate when I was 20 with no degree and never needed it, I dropped out of community college after I told someone I was in school for marketing and they said "oh you want to be a waiter?"
 
I know a few HIGH NET WORTH real estate developers and from what I've seen the ones who are the most successful have majored in something like Urban Planning.
 
Depends on how serious you are about it. If you're 100% sure you have the drive to get it done then don't get a degree and rather get down to work.

But if you're dabbling and allow a possibility of getting a regular job someday then you need a degree.

I was studying marketing for 2 years before I left and trust me you won't learn anything that you could directly apply in your line of work.

I dropped out once I realized I was more knowledgeable about internet marketing than any professor will ever dream of being. All that was missing was action and no degree can teach you that - it's something you need to do yourself.
 
forget university. If real estate is what you want (and god help you but anyway ... ) find the most successful real estate business person you can find and offer to work for him free for a year. Wish I'd done something like that instead of a Business degree and masters in marketing.
 
The best degree is no degree. Degrees are for people who don't have the balls to do what they need to do. A degree doesn't make investing any easier, knowledge does. Take the money you would have invested in college, buy a few books and invest in your first property. Cashflow it. Rinse. Repeat.
 
you do realize you need a real estate license to sell real estate... so how about that for starters?
 
Thanks for all the responses so far.

I realize that you can be succesful without a degree, I stated in my post why I want a degree and how easy it is to get it with distance learning, very little time investment ( if I go to a bad college it may be only two weeks a year of studying ) and the price cause I'm Eastern European is nothing also.
College here is like $ 2,000 / year so it's almost free.

I think I will try it and if I see that it can be accomplished with minimal studying, then why not?

Finance, Marketing, International Business, Economics and Management these might be the best choices I think. Marketing might be the easiest one I think and it is also very interesting but I have an intuition that Finance may be the most valuable one, but the hardest also.
 
I realize that you can be succesful without a degree
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Think again, ask Bill Gates, Michael Dell, and that douchbag Larry Ellison about degree's needed for success.. Not that they couldn't have, just they took the hustle route and succeeded. My cuz has an MBA in economics, smart but in a sense just stupid because he spent all this time in school to come out and sell real estate. So he flounders in the shitty economy the degree really didn't help him. Personally I'd get it as a milestone in your life, but not to think it's going to pave the path to becoming a great real estate investor. You would be better off finding a WF equiv. website for real estate and get the facts.

Good luck.
 
BigWill said:
your going to waste 3-4 years on degree, that will be 3-4 years lost that you could have been investing
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yep...all those college students could be wealthy if they just learned to invest that 100k instead of spending/borrowing it for tuition.
 
jenzkc said:
yep...all those college students could be wealthy if they just learned to invest that 100k instead of spending/borrowing it for tuition.
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not gonna get into this debate, but it still all depends what your intent is. medical, science, engineering, it's unavoidable.
 
BlokBlok said:
I started hustling in real estate when I was 20 with no degree and never needed it, I dropped out of community college after I told someone I was in school for marketing and they said "oh you want to be a waiter?"
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OH SNAP!
 
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