The Florida State University College of Business' real estate program is ranked second in a global ranking that measures research productivity in the real estate field's top three journals, and two of the department's faculty members are ranked in the top 10.
In the latest Real Estate Academic Leadership (REAL) rankings, FSU's School of Real Estate is ranked tied for second place among authors and institutions with the National University of Singapore. Among authors, FSU's Tingyu Zhou is ranked fourth in the world and fellow faculty member Chongyu Wang is ranked 10th in the world.
FSU’s real estate department’s overall ranking improved three places from last year, and the most recent U.S. News & World Report rankings also ranked the university’s real estate program sixth among public universities for undergraduate majors and eighth for MBA majors, reaffirming the preeminent status of the university’s real estate program.
“This exciting news underscores the global reputation of our real estate faculty and programs and marks another milestone in our university's path to excellence,” said Michael Hartline, dean of the FSU College of Business.
The REAL rankings are based on research output from The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, The Journal of Real Estate Research and Real Estate Economics from 2019 to September 1, 2023. According to a Journal of Real Estate Literature article on the rankings, the rankings include 662 papers by 1,037 authors from 528 institutions.
According to the article, the rankings “highlight those who have made the greatest contributions to real estate knowledge, measured by the volume of publications they have had in these titles over the past five years.”
Thirty-eight papers were published by FSU researchers, including 12 papers by Zhou, who is the Gutzlaff Dean's Associate Professor in the School of Real Estate, and nine papers by Wang, an assistant professor.
Zhou's research interests are in real estate economics and finance, and he serves as a director of the World China Real Estate Conference and as an associate editor of the International Real Estate Review magazine. Wang's academic publications include articles on real estate economics and finance, and his awards include the American Association of Real Estate's 2022 Best REIT Manuscript Award.
Associate Professor Daniel Broxterman, Francis Nardozza Fellow in Real Estate and academic director of the FSU Real Estate Center, praised Zhou and Wang's “timely analysis of the rapidly changing commercial real estate market in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
He also said the REAL ranking is another indicator that “FSU has a great group of real estate scholars.”
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