📚 Rethinking Real Estate Education: A Deep Dive on Georgetown's GRA Program

​📅 Date & Time: Thursday, February 5 | 3PM - 4PM EST
🎙️ Hosted by: Thesis Driven

​Description

​Over the past decade, “real estate” has quietly expanded beyond buildings. Capital now flows across infrastructure, energy, logistics, digital networks, and policy-driven real assets—but much of real estate education remains anchored to a property-centric model built for a prior era.

​Hiring demand is shifting accordingly. Employers increasingly value professionals who combine real estate fundamentals with infrastructure finance, regulatory literacy, sustainability, and systems-level thinking. While traditional MSRED programs remain strong, many struggle to fully reflect this broader mandate.

​Georgetown University’s Master of Science in Global Real Assets is one of the most intentional responses to this shift. The program broadens beyond property while preserving rigorous training in investment fundamentals, underwriting, and applied finance—positioning graduates for careers at the intersection of capital, infrastructure, and public policy.

​Join us for a 60-minute Deep Dive conversation on how Georgetown has designed, structured, and scaled GRA to meet modern capital-markets demand. We’ll explore the program’s curriculum, experiential learning model, industry partnerships, and the advantage of Washington, D.C.’s proximity to policy, regulation, and public-private capital flows.

​The program’s evolution has been accelerated by the Steers Center for Real Assets and a major commitment from the Steers family, including full-tuition Steers Scholars scholarships to expand access and help build the next generation of real-assets talent.

​In this session, Paul and Brad of Thesis Driven sit down with Matt Cypher and Bob Steers to discuss the forces reshaping real estate education—and what GRA signals about the future of careers across capital, infrastructure, and the built world.

​In this session, we’ll cover:

• ​How the industry's structural shift from traditional real estate to global real assets is reshaping talent needs and career pathways

• ​Why traditional real estate education is increasingly misaligned with capital markets and hiring trends

• ​How global real assets are reshaping the definition of “real estate” as a career path

• ​What Georgetown’s GRA program teaches—and how it differs structurally from MSRED models

• ​The role of infrastructure, energy, sustainability, and policy in modern real assets careers

• ​How experiential learning and applied clinics translate into job-ready skillsets

• ​What employers are signaling about demand for cross-asset, systems-oriented talent

​Speakers Include:

​The Program

• ​Matt Cypher — Academic Director, GRA Program

• ​Bob Steers — Executive Chairman, Cohen & Steers

​The Interviewers

• ​Paul Stanton, Thesis Driven

• ​Brad Hargreaves, Thesis Driven

​​🎟️ Register now to see how Georgetown & The Steers Center are rethinking real estate education