Real Estate School: What Your State Requires

The pre-licensing course your state requires before it will let you sit the licensing exam. It is bought from a provider your state has approved — a private school, a college, or an online provider — and completing it is a prerequisite, not the exam itself.

It depends entirely on the state, and the table above shows each one as its regulator publishes it. Some states state the requirement in clock hours, and some state it in college units or in named courses, which is why an hours figure alone can be misleading.

Approval is the state regulator's, so check the regulator's own register rather than the school's claim about itself. Where the state publishes that register at a stable address it is linked in the table above; otherwise the regulator is linked directly.

That is a state-by-state question, and some states attach conditions to the delivery method or to the provider rather than to the format. Your state's guide quotes its rule and cites the provision it comes from.

We do not publish course prices. They are set by each provider, change often, and are the one number where a stale figure on a page like this costs a reader real money. Get the price from the provider, and confirm the provider is approved with the regulator.

No. Freehold is free exam preparation — practice questions, explanations and source citations for all 50 states. We take no affiliate commission from any school, which is why this page points at your regulator instead of at a provider.