NEWARK, NJ—Kevin Riordan, the industry veteran named executive director of The Center for Real Estate at Rutgers Business School, says the program easily stacks up against similar programs around the country, and he hopes to gain that national stature for the Rutgers program during his tenure.
“I want to see our center's name clearly in the mix of other centers, Wharton, Wisconsin, Cal Berkeley, Georgia,” he tells GlobeSt.com in an exclusive interview. “I want to see our center clearly seen as an equal to those centers.”
Rutgers will need both a curriculum broad enough to assure employers that students are coming out well-trained, and a “reverb action,” where employers happy with their hires from Rutgers return to the school seeking additional candidates, Riordan says.
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