Where to take the Kansas Principles and Practice courses
Both courses have to be approved by the Kansas Real Estate Commission, and both schools below appear on the Commission's approved provider directory for both of them. Kansas writes the course outlines itself, so the content is the state's — what differs between providers is delivery, support and how the courses are packaged.
The CE Shop
- Sells the two Kansas courses as separate products, which is exactly what the state's sequencing needs — you can take Principles, sit the exam, then start Practice with the full six-month window ahead of you
- Approved by the Commission for both courses under its own course numbers, so neither half leaves you looking for another provider
- Sold in tiers, so exam prep is a choice rather than a bundle
- Self-paced online, which Kansas allows with no live-hours minimum and no proctored final — though you do need 90% on the course questions
Colibri Real Estate
- Approved by the Commission for both Kansas courses, in self-paced, live-online and in-person formats
- The live-online and classroom options are worth knowing about if self-paced study has not worked for you before
- Carries Kansas CE for renewals, including the three-hour Kansas Required Core that every licensee owes
- Mind the packaging: its Kansas page describes a single 60-hour pre-licensing course to complete before the exam. The arithmetic is right but the sequence is not how Kansas works — take Principles first and sit the exam before you start Practice
How to get your Kansas licence
Six steps — and the two education deadlines both count backwards from the day your application reaches the Commission.
Apply and get fingerprinted
The pre-licensure application costs $85, which is a $15 application fee plus $70 for the criminal history check. Fingerprint capture at a Pearson VUE centre is another $16. This can run alongside your coursework.
Complete the 30-hour Principles course
This is the only course you need to be authorised for the exam. It must be completed within the twelve months before the Commission receives your licence application.
Pass the national portion
Eighty scored questions, 70 to pass, two and a half hours.
Pass the Kansas portion
Thirty scored questions, 70 to pass, an hour and a half. Each exam costs $70, and you must wait 24 hours before rebooking a failed portion.
Take the 30-hour Kansas Practice course
This is the last thing before you apply, and it has to be completed within the six months before the Commission receives your application. Leaving it until after the exam is what keeps that window open.
Apply within six months of your earliest pass
The application and the $125 fee must reach the Commission within six months of your earliest passing exam date — not the later one. The Commission grants no extensions.
From the Kansas Real Estate Commission, K.S.A. 58-3039, 58-3040 and 58-3046a, K.A.R. 86-1-5, 86-1-10 and 86-1-11, and the Pearson VUE Kansas candidate handbook, verified August 2026. The Commission's own salesperson requirements page lists the full 60 hours before the exam step, while its FAQ and the candidate handbook both state that only the 30-hour Principles course is needed to test — we have followed the statute and the handbook, which agree with each other. The distance-education rules were amended effective 27 December 2024, so older descriptions of them are out of date. No errors and omissions insurance requirement appears anywhere in the Kansas licence act.
Kansas FAQs
Do I need all 60 hours before I can sit the Kansas exam?
No — only the 30-hour Principles course. The Commission's FAQ says applicants "must complete a total of 60 hours of pre-license education, with 30 hours being required before the examination," and the Pearson VUE Kansas handbook places the Practice course in the six months before the licence application. This is the single most useful thing to know about Kansas, because K.S.A. 58-3046a(c) requires the Practice course to be "completed within the six months immediately preceding the receipt by the commission of the application." Finish all sixty hours before you test, take two attempts at the exam, and that certificate can go stale before you apply — leaving you to retake and repay for thirty hours.
When exactly do the two education deadlines run out?
They run backwards from the day the Commission receives your application, not forwards from the day you finish a course. K.S.A. 58-3046a(a) requires the Principles course to be "completed within the 12 months immediately preceding the receipt by the commission of the application," and 58-3046a(c) does the same with six months for the Practice course. So the question is never "how long is my certificate valid?" but "how old will this certificate be on the day my file is opened?" The Commission is blunt about relief: "there are no extensions."
The six-month clock after the exam — which pass date does it start from?
The earliest one. The Commission states that it "must receive your application within 6 months of the earliest pass date or you will have to retake the exam." Because the national and state portions are booked separately, it is common to pass one, leave a gap, and pass the other — and then assume the clock started with the second. It started with the first. Combined with the Practice course's own six-month window running backwards, you can find yourself squeezed from both ends.
Does Kansas require post-licensing education?
No. Kansas has no post-licensing requirement at all — both 30-hour courses are pre-licensure, and the ordinary continuing education requirement of 12 hours per two-year renewal applies from your first renewal like everyone else's. There is no first-renewal exemption and no first-renewal extra. One thing to diary: since 1 January 2019 a new licence expires on the first day of the month two years after it was issued, and Kansas does not prorate that first period.
Does Kansas require ARELLO certification or a proctored exam?
Neither. The Commission states directly that "ARELLO Certification is not required for course approval," and the word proctor does not appear in K.A.R. 86-1-10, the regulation governing approved courses. What Kansas does instead is set a high bar inside the course: an asynchronous distance course must put at least fifty quiz or examination questions to you, and the certificate only issues to a student who has "answered at least 90 percent of the quiz or examination questions correctly." Ninety per cent is well above the 70–75% most states use, and it is easy to miss when you are comparing courses.
Does Kansas require errors and omissions insurance?
No. There is no errors and omissions provision anywhere in the Kansas Real Estate Brokers' and Salespersons' License Act, and none in the Commission's regulations, renewal guidance or applicant pages. The claim circulates widely, and the likely reason is that errors and omissions coverage is a topic on the licensing exam — something you are tested on, not something you must buy. Brokerages frequently require cover as a condition of joining them, which is a private arrangement.