RPM Program


Residential Property Management Degree Program:
University of North Texas

The Texas Apartment Association Education Foundation's flagship effort is its four-year undergraduate degree in Residential Property Management (RPM) at the University of North Texas in Denton.

This RPM degree is being offered through the University of North Texas (UNT) College of Business Administration, a leader in recognizing the multidisciplinary skill set required to successfully operate a multifamily rental property.

Working closely with the Texas Apartment Association and working professionals, the UNT College of Business Administration's Department of Finance, Insurance, Real Estate, and Law has developed a comprehensive curriculum for the RPM program.

Classroom instruction is supplemented with outreach programs to infuse the learning experience with examples of problems and solutions drawn from real-life situations.

The curriculum

Students in the four-year undergraduate RPM degree program receive a core curriculum including classes in:

  • finance, accounting, business law, statistics, management, business computer information systems, and business policy
  • residential property management
  • principles of real estate
  • specialized courses in finance, investments, valuation, and law/contracts for real estate, and
  • electives including advanced level finance, business law, business administration, marketing, and risk management/insurance, or upper level economics, geography, computer science, or engineering construction technology.

Practical experience

All students are urged to participate in the college's Real Estate Club, hold student membership in TAA, and earn 3 hours of credit in an internship by working at least 15 hours per week in a real estate-related job.

Students also have many opportunities to contribute professional quality projects, such as:

  • a five-year property management plan
  • an apartment project investment analysis and marketing pro forma
  • a lecture on fair housing
  • qualifying for the Texas Real Estate Salespersons License prior to graduation, and
  • taking advantage of apartment management and investment analysis software and videos.

The college also arranges field trips to multifamily properties and management companies and invites guest speakers to address students.

Internships

Numerous opportunities are made available to students to offer them meaningful, challenging, paid positions with property management firms. Internships may result in full-time employment after graduation.

Top donors to the TAA Education Foundation have priority access to students interested in internships.

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Post-graduation assistance

To help place graduates, UNT posts open positions and the TAA News & Views newsletter on its website.

Scholarships

The TAAEF/Larry Niemann Scholarship Program offers scholarship assistance to students enrolled in the UNT Residential Property Management degree program through the following two scholarship types:

  • TAAEF/Larry Niemann Scholarships: Up to five $1,000 merit-based acadmic scholarships are available.  
  • AATC/Jonetta Vise Scholarship: This scholarship is designed as a two-semester award of $3,000 per semester, or $6,000 total. Receipt of the second semester award is contingent upon certain criteria. This award is not available for Spring 2011, but will be available again for Fall 2011/Spring 2012.

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Something for everyone

In addition to a four-year degree, students can take advantage of a concentration, a minor and a certificate program in Residential Property Management.

Community college cooperative education program

  • Modeled on the RPM program, but designed for local community and junior colleges
  • Focused on the development of skills needed to ensure the availability of onsite personnel in the future.
  • Designed to provide industry training for maintenance personnel and leasing agents.
  • Community college programs are currently in development.

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