It's important to get your edutacion in real estate, but you have to know which area you want to get into. Are you referring to becoming a real estate agent? Maybe I'm clueless here, but isn't the only requirement to pass the exam? I have no idea why you would need an associates degree, or study business administration for anything in real estate. Don't waste your time and money on things not really useful in the real world. Go to the library or bookstores and read books on real estate. As many as you can. If at a bookstore, don't buy them, just hang out there and read them. Figure out what you might like doing and read more books on those subjects to find out how to be good at it. This should take no longer than 1 week, if you really work at it. Once you've picked your ONE strategy to get rich in real estate, make a plan and start doing it. This will work a lot better for you in getting started in real estate than what anybody can write to you about on Yahoo! Answers. I've only done real estate investing, so I wouldn't know anything about how to be an agent, a mortgage broker, an appraiser, if you're interested in any of those.I think being an investor is the best and only way to start in real estate without money or experience, while still making money. The strategy for beginners is wholesaling houses. Basically you find a house that the owner is highly motivated to sell because it's vacant and/or needs lots of work, you negotiate and put it under contract for a low price, then you go out and find an investor/rehabber that is willing to pay you a little bit higher price for it. The difference between what the investor/rehabber pays and what you negotiated with the seller is your PROFIT. That's the gist of it, of course there are details you need to educate yourself on. If you are at all interested in doing investing or finding out what kind of investing you can do without money or experience, the books I'm referencing below is a good start.