Where to take the 90-hour Indiana broker course
Indiana publishes no easy public list of approved pre-licensing schools, so neither school below is described here as state-approved. What can be checked is whether each one gets Indiana's facts right — and whether it can sell you the second course you will owe within two years.
The CE Shop
- Sells both courses Indiana requires — the 90-hour broker pre-licence course and the 30-hour post-licence course due within two years of licensure
- Names the licence correctly as a broker licence, which matters because Indiana has not issued a salesperson licence since June 2014
- Its Indiana exam prep is built for Pearson VUE, the vendor Indiana actually uses
- Sold in tiers from course-only upward, with a free trial, so you can leave out exam prep
- Note: its pages could not be read from here, so this reflects its Indiana product range rather than a review of its copy
Colibri Real Estate
- Sells the 90 hours in four tiers and correctly describes the course as three 30-hour sections each ending in a 100-question exam
- Correctly states the 36-hours-per-three-years continuing education rule and the 12-hour annual minimum inside it
- ⚠ It does not sell Indiana post-licensing. Its own Indiana renewal page describes the 30-hour requirement accurately — it just cannot sell it to you, so that is a second purchase elsewhere.
- ⚠ Its Indiana pages still bill part of the cost as “Salesperson License Fees”, say a broker “may work independently”, and refer to “SAE courses”, which is a Texas term. None of that describes Indiana.
- ⚠ It states you must be sponsored by a broker at the time of application. Indiana lets you take the licence inactive with no managing broker at all.
How to get your Indiana licence
Five steps, and two clocks. The one that costs the most is the twelve months between finishing the course and passing the exam.
Complete the 90-hour broker course
Statutory curriculum covering principles, practices, Indiana licence law, agency, contracts, financing, settlement, escrow, recordkeeping, regulation and appraising. Indiana went from a 24-hour salesperson course to this on 1 July 2014.
Pass three course exams first
The rule requires three written examinations of 100 questions each, with 225 of the 300 points needed to pass the course. They are sat under instructor supervision and take-home papers cannot count — a heavier course-exam burden than most states impose.
Book the exam with Pearson VUE
80 scored national questions and 50 scored Indiana questions, 240 minutes, $55 an attempt, passing at a scaled 75. Ignore the PSI link still live on the Commission's own landing page.
Pass within twelve months — or start over
If you do not pass within one year of completing the broker course you "must again comply with the educational requirements" before testing again. That is not a missed deadline, it is retaking all 90 hours at full price.
Apply, and choose your status
$60 to the Licensing Agency, with your course completion and Pearson VUE score report attached. Managing broker details are needed only if you want the licence issued active or in referral status. There is no fingerprint step and no background-check fee — Indiana screens by self-disclosure.
From the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency, IC 25-34.1-3-4.1, 25-34.1-5-5 and 25-34.1-9-11, 876 IAC 6-4-1, 6-4-4, 6-6-1 and 7-4-2, and the Pearson VUE Indiana Real Estate Candidate Handbook, verified August 2026. Course prices are omitted because neither school publishes confirmable Indiana package pricing. No fixed renewal calendar date is published here: the statute delegates it to the Licensing Agency and no agency page states one — renewal is triennial and notices go out about 90 days ahead.
Indiana FAQs
Does Indiana still issue salesperson licences?
No. The salesperson licence statute was repealed effective 1 July 2014 and the Commission may not issue a new one. Everyone entering the profession is licensed as a broker. That does not mean independence, though: an Indiana broker works "in association with and under the auspices of a managing broker and broker company," and becoming a managing broker yourself takes three years of active licensure, 24 hours of management courses and another exam.
Which company runs the Indiana real estate exam?
Pearson VUE. The Licensing Agency's licensing page tells applicants to submit "the original score sheet you received from Pearson VUE after passing the licensing examination" and links to Pearson's Indiana page. Be aware that the Commission's own landing page still names PSI and links a PSI registration URL — that page is out of date, and following it sends you to a portal that will not register you.
What happens if I do not pass the exam within a year?
You lose the entire course. 876 IAC 6-6-1(b) says an applicant who does not pass within one year of completing the broker course "must again comply with the educational requirements" before being entitled to any further attempt. Pearson states the same rule from its side. Finishing the course in March, drifting, and testing the following April means retaking all 90 hours and paying for them again.
Does Indiana require fingerprints or a background check?
No. Real estate brokers are not on the Licensing Agency's list of professions requiring a fingerprint-based criminal background check — real estate appraisers are, which is probably where the confusion comes from. Indiana screens through self-disclosure questions on the application, with supporting documentation if you answer yes. Any Indiana guide with a fingerprinting step and a fee attached has invented both.
Do I need 30 hours of post-licensing and continuing education?
Not both. 876 IAC 7-4-2(c) states that completing the 30 hours "fully satisfies any continuing education that otherwise would have been required" for two continuing education years, and the year in which you were first licensed does not count toward those two — so continuing education does not start until the third year after the one in progress when you were licensed. The 30 hours themselves are due within two years of issuance.
Do I need a managing broker before I can apply?
No. Managing broker and broker company details are required only if you want the licence issued in active or referral status. You can be issued a licence as inactive or unassigned with no brokerage lined up, and affiliate later.
Does Indiana require errors and omissions insurance?
No. There is no errors and omissions provision in IC 25-34.1 or in the Commission's rules, and the renewal form has no field for an insurance carrier, policy number or coverage dates — its only substantive attestation is about continuing education. Brokerages frequently require cover as a condition of affiliation; that is a private arrangement.