How important is a bachelor's degree in real estate investing? Directly ... not important, however, neither is high school. As someone mentioned before, its good to question the cost in today's market, but a STEM degree would be good especially if it's free. I don't know where you're in your investment journey and what your end goal is. Some people are passionate about a particular field and love working in that area and for the most part, a degree is usually required. There are intangibles from working and grinding through 4 years of college and finishing .... some people don't give enough credit to the journey on the road to success. Bill Gates dropped out of school, but it wasn't high school, it was college. It's in these environments where a lot of light bulbs go off (intangibles). We talk about the easy it is to access information and software programs but 99% of all these things are created by degree-having software/hardware engineers, system tester, etc. All real estate investors want a great degree-having attorney and CPA. Many develop the discipline that they are demonstrating in their investing career because of going to college and even working in the desired field, they just don't give enough credit to the PROCESS.
