Undergraduate Trips

Each year, a select group of undergraduate students travel to Expo Real in Germany to learn about international real estate.  This conference brings together real estate professionals from around the world and offers students an extraodinary opportunity to learn about global markets.

Graduate Trips

Graduate students working on a MBA in real estate have the opportunity to take two international trips over the course of their two years of study.  In the first year, students travel to Cannes, France, for the well-known MIPIM conference with over 20,000 real estate professionals from around the world.  In the second year, the students visit markets around the world to learn about the specifics of investment and development within the country.  Past trips have gone to Brazil, China, Japan, Vietnam, and Singapore.  For more information on the program, visit the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate website here.

Case Study Competitions

As another activity to enhance in-class learning outside of the classroom, students are encouraged to participate in numerous case study competitions at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
 
For the spring semester, several case competitions are available for undergraduate students. UW Madison will be participating in two real estate competitions this spring, the NAIOP Regional University Challenge (Minneapolis, MN) and USC International Real Estate Case Competition (Los Angeles, CA). In recent years UW-Madison Undergraduates have done exceedingly well in these competitions, taking 1st place at NAIOP and 2nd place at USC last year. The faculty will choose two six-member teams. Team members will then receive instructor’s permission to sign up for Mr. Qureshi’s one credit RE 365, which meets for ten consecutive Fridays at 9:30am – 10:45am from Jan 30th to April 10th, 2009. The team will use the one-credit course to prepare, practice case analysis and receive tips from past participants, faculty and alums. If you are interested, please send an email here.