Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship has partnered with Castle Group, a property management company in Plantation, FL, to develop a new Bachelor of Science in Business Administration program in property management and real estate. The new major is meant to encompass a variety of real estate principles and property management coursework
The new major is an extension of the partnership that NSU has with Castle Group. James Donnelly, Castle Group’s Founder and CEO, was appointed to NSU’s Board of Trustees early last month. Donnelly has been an active member in the NSU community, as the recent recipient of the NSU’s President’s Award for Excellence in Community Service and member of Huizenga College of Business Hall of Fame.
The new program requires 18 credits in property management and real estate, or REE designated courses, and six credits in program-specific electives, including entrepreneurship, public administration and property management. The required courses for the program cover several aspects of the property management and real estate industries, including valuation, maintenance and operations.
According to a press release by NSU Newsroom, Andrew Rosman, Dean of the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship said, “This program fully encompasses a variety of real estate principles and property management course work to give our students the edge they need to be successful upon graduation.”
In 2016, the Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship partnered with Castle Group for its minor program in property management. However, for this new program, the partnership provides a one of a kind experience with courses ranging from residential property management to hospitality, resort, cruise ship and casino management.
Fred Forgey, the department chair for the property management and real estate major,
explained the importance of having a program like this at NSU.
“Specifically, the field of property management is very broad. It is not a field that gets a lot of attention at a number of schools. So, we thought there was simply a void in the educational environment to fill. I think students who go through this program will have instant opportunities for employment,” said Forgey.
Forgey further explained the motivation behind students choosing to partake in the new program.
“I think that it, hopefully, is a program that is going to have a lot of interest. Hopefully, students take advantage of that by taking a couple of classes, even before they have it necessarily selected as their major. Inherently, I do not necessarily anticipate students will just right-out-of-the-box select property management as their major, but I think once they take one of the classes and they see how practical, applied and useful the information is, that it is something that will generate much more of an interest on their behalf and pursue it more,” he said.
For more information on NSU’s new B.S.B.A in property management and real estate, visit the Huizenga College of Business section of NSU’s website.
