Columbia Real Estate Group [CREG]
Recent Member Placements (2025 - Present)
We introduce students to the real assets industry and equip them with the knowledge, technical foundation, and industry exposure needed to pursue careers in the field after graduation.
We start with the fundamentals of how real assets operate in practice and develop students’ understanding of the financial, investment, and market concepts that underpin the industry. Leveraging our Manhattan location, we complement that foundation with direct exposure to some of the city’s most ambitious sites. We also provide recruiting guidance and foster connections with firms across the broader real assets ecosystem.
Our Initiatives
Foundations
We seek to understand how the industry operates through development to investment:
Real estate sectors and career paths
Development, construction, and property operations
Market trends and the forces shaping cities
Infrastructure and emerging asset classes
Valuation and investment fundamentals
Site Visits
We ride the subway down to visit the most prominent ongoing projects across NYC, aiming to:
See the development process firsthand
Understand how properties serve their markets
Learn from developers, operators, and other professionals
Connect classroom discussions to real projects
Experience New York’s built environment
Meet the Managers
We partner with leading investment banks, private equity firms, and developers on events to:
Explore careers across the industry
Learn how projects move from concept to completion
Understand different professional perspectives
Build meaningful industry connections
Division Meetings
CREG division meetings explore real estate from every angle through member-led presentations, case studies, and group discussions. Topics span development, property operations, market trends, emerging asset classes, and investment fundamentals. Explore a sample presentation on data centers, created and delivered by CREG’s division head for a closer look at the topics and discussions featured in our division meetings:
History
Originally founded in 2019 as the Columbia Real Estate Group [CREG], the organization was the only undergraduate student group focused on the real estate industry and asset class. Through strategic partnerships with other student organizations and by leveraging Columbia’s extensive alumni network, it quickly established itself as a prominent presence on campus.
