Where to take the 150-hour Oregon broker course
Oregon requires 150 clock-hours across seven separately examined courses, delivered by an Oregon-licensed private career school or an Oregon college. We list a school here only when we can confirm it sells the Oregon pre-licence course.
The CE Shop
- Sells the full 150 hours in one purchase, covering all seven courses the rule prescribes rather than leaving you to assemble them
- Correctly sold as a broker course, which matters in a state that abolished the salesperson licence — a package labelled “Oregon salesperson” is a bad sign
- Three tiers plus a free five-day trial, so you can see the platform before committing to 150 hours of it
- Self-paced online, which is the practical format when seven courses each end in their own 75% final exam
Colibri Real Estate
- Sells Oregon exam prep, worth considering separately if you have taken the 150 hours elsewhere and want practice against a 75% pass mark
- Carries Oregon continuing education, though not the Advanced Practices course you will need at your first renewal — its own site says so
- Its Oregon requirements pages are accurate on the 150 hours and the seven-course split, so they are a reasonable cross-check even where you cannot buy the course
- Useful if you are licensed in another state and want to compare Oregon’s requirements before committing
How to get your Oregon licence
Five steps, and the rule requires them “in the order listed” — which is not the order every other state uses.
Apply and pay $300 first
OAR 863-014-0035(1)(a) puts the online licence application and its fee at step one, before any coursework. That is where your Applicant ID is generated, and you hand that ID to your school. The fee is $300 and it is non-refundable, so Oregon asks you to commit before you have sat a single hour of class.
Complete 150 hours in seven courses
Real Estate Law 30, Oregon Real Estate Practice 30, Real Estate Finance 30, Contracts 15, Agency Law 15, Real Estate Brokerage 20 and Property Management 10. A clock-hour is a full 60 minutes excluding breaks. Private career school students need at least 75% on each course’s own final exam.
Your school certifies you to PSI
OAR 863-022-0060 bars a course provider from certifying your completion until it has proof you already submitted a licence application to the Agency. This is the step that punishes anyone who took the course first — there is no route to PSI that does not run through an Agency-issued Applicant ID.
Pass the PSI exam
Eighty national questions in 150 minutes and fifty state questions in 90, and 75% is required to pass all real estate examinations. The fee is $75 per attempt. Pass one portion and it stays good for twelve months while you clear the other.
Get fingerprinted at the test centre
PSI captures your prints at the exam site for $61.25 — $46.25 to the Oregon State Police and $15 to PSI — and processing takes up to four weeks. The clearance is good for twelve months, as is your exam result, and the licence must issue inside that window.
From the Oregon Real Estate Agency, ORS 696.010, 696.022 and 696.270, OAR 863-014-0010, 863-014-0015, 863-014-0035, 863-020-0010, 863-022-0010, 863-022-0030 and 863-022-0060, the Agency’s 2026 Broker Advanced Practices course outline, and the Oregon Real Estate Agency candidate bulletin published by PSI and updated 1 January 2026, verified August 2026. Note that an older PSI bulletin effective 1 October 2020 is still online and gives a $56.25 fingerprint fee and different exam times; it is superseded. The Agency publishes no exam pass rates by school.
Oregon FAQs
Do I really have to apply and pay before I take the course?
Yes, and it is codified. OAR 863-014-0035(1) says an applicant must complete the steps “in the order listed”, and step (a) is “Submit an online license application and pay the fee to the Agency” — the coursework is step (b). The Agency’s own guidance matches: you register for eLicense, apply, pay $300, receive an Applicant ID by email, and give that ID to your real estate school. It is enforced at the school’s end too: OAR 863-022-0060 says a course provider must obtain proof that you have already submitted a licence application before it certifies your completion to the examination provider. Take the 150 hours first and you will finish with no Applicant ID, no PSI eligibility and a $300 bill you had not planned for.
Oregon has no salesperson licence?
Correct. ORS 696.022 directs the Agency to license “real estate brokers, principal real estate brokers and licensed real estate property managers.” The entry-level credential is the broker licence; a principal broker is the supervisory level and needs three years of active licensed experience plus the Brokerage Administration and Sales Supervision course. Any school selling you an “Oregon salesperson course” has not checked Oregon law.
How is the 150 hours split up?
Into seven separately examined courses under OAR 863-022-0010: Real Estate Law (30 hours), Oregon Real Estate Practice (30), Real Estate Finance (30), Contracts (15), Agency Law (15), Real Estate Brokerage (20) and Property Management (10). Each carries its own final examination with a set question count, and a private career school student needs at least 75% on each one. A clock-hour is defined as a full 60 minutes, excluding meal or rest breaks.
What changed for continuing education on 1 January 2026?
House Bill 3137 reshuffled the first-renewal package without changing its total. The Agency’s 2026 course outline states that the bill “removed the Fair Housing component from the Advanced Practices courses and reduced the total required hours from 27 to 26.” The Law and Rule Required Course dropped from three hours to two, and a standalone two-hour Fair Housing course was carved out. Thirty hours either way. Two traps follow: the published rule text still says 27 and 3, so anyone quoting the regulation verbatim is now quoting a superseded figure; and the Agency currently accepts either version while legacy courses work through the system. The safe framing is a 26- or 27-hour Advanced Practices course, plus a 2- or 3-hour Law and Rule course, plus 2 hours of Fair Housing, totalling 30.
Does Oregon require errors and omissions insurance?
No. There is no errors and omissions provision in ORS Chapter 696, none in the licensing rules at OAR 863-014 — including 863-014-0010, which sets out exactly what a licence application must contain — none in the renewal conditions at OAR 863-020-0010, and no mention on the Agency’s own renewal instructions. Oregon is not a mandatory-E&O state. Brokerages frequently carry it as a commercial matter, which is a business decision rather than a licensing condition.
Can I take the Oregon course online?
Yes, and there is no minimum number of live hours. But the permission is attached to the course rather than to you: OAR 863-022-0030(3)(b) requires a private career school wishing to deliver a course by distance education to document “that the course has been certified by the Association of Real Estate License Law Officials.” Oregon does not certify online delivery itself — it defers to ARELLO. So the question to ask a school is not whether the course is online but whether that course holds ARELLO certification for Oregon.
When does my first Oregon licence expire?
On the last day of your birth month, and your first term is short. OAR 863-014-0030 sets the expiration at the last day of the licensee’s birth month, and the Agency tells new licensees that the first licence period will most likely be less than two years. The full $300 renewal is charged regardless. So a broker licensed shortly before their birth month pays two years of fee for a fraction of one — and still owes all thirty continuing education hours, including the 26- or 27-hour Advanced Practices course, at that first renewal.
Does the Agency publish pass rates by school?
No. We checked the Agency’s educator pages, its pre-license education hub, its licensing pages and its statistical roundup, which reports examination volume only and nothing broken out by provider. Any “Oregon pass rate by school” figure you find is either a school’s own marketing number or a figure borrowed from a state that does publish them, such as Colorado or Texas.