Where to take the 120-hour Utah sales agent course
Your course has to come from a school the Division has certified, and the national brands do not all appear on the Division’s published list. We list a school here only when we can confirm it sells the Utah pre-licence course.
Colibri Real Estate
- Named on the Division’s own certified pre-license school list as “Colibri Real Estate, LLC”, so you can check its standing at the source before you pay
- Covers the full 120 hours in one purchase, which is the whole education requirement — there is no second Utah course to buy afterwards
- Distance education, so you can work around Utah’s eight-credit-hours-a-day cap at your own pace rather than to a class timetable
- Also sells the Utah continuing education you will need at renewal, though check it carries the 12-hour New Agent course before you assume one bundle covers your first renewal
The CE Shop
- Sells the Utah 120-hour sales agent course in four tiers — course-only, value, standard and premium — so you can leave out exam prep if you do not want to pay for it
- Runs a free trial of the Utah course, so you can see the platform before committing money to 120 hours of it
- Self-paced online, which matters when 120 hours has to fit around a job you have not left yet
- Sells Utah exam prep separately, useful if you have already finished the hours somewhere else and only want practice questions
How to get your Utah licence
Five steps — and the last one is where most Utah guidance goes wrong, because Utah has no separate post-licensing course at all.
Complete 120 hours
Utah Code § 61-2f-203(1)(d)(i)(A) requires “not less than 120 hours” of a Division-approved educational programme. It is one course, not a set of named modules. The certification rule caps you at eight credit hours a day, so the fastest legal run at it is fifteen days.
Pass the Pearson VUE exam
Utah uses Pearson VUE, not PSI. Eighty scored national questions and fifty scored state questions, and you need 70 on each. The fee is $69 and you pay it again on every attempt — there is no cheaper retake. Pass one half and fail the other and you have six months to clear the failed half, or you sit both again.
Apply within 90 days
Two clocks run and they are easy to confuse. You have twelve months from finishing the course to pass the exam, then ninety days from passing to file the application. Miss the first and you buy the 120 hours again; miss the second and you sit the exam again.
Get fingerprinted — after you apply
Utah does this in an order most states do not. You submit the application first, and the Division then emails the fingerprint instructions. The check runs through the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification and the FBI.
Plan your first renewal around the New Agent course
Your licence runs two years. At the first renewal you owe eighteen hours of continuing education — but they are prescribed: the 12-hour New Agent course, the Mandatory 3-Hour CE course, and three more non-duplicative hours. A generic 18-hour CE bundle will not satisfy it.
From the Utah Division of Real Estate and its certified pre-license school list, Utah Code § 61-2f-203(1)(d), Utah Admin. Code R162-2f-201, R162-2f-204 and R162-2f-206b, and the Utah real estate candidate handbook published by Pearson VUE, verified August 2026. No application fee total is published here: the Division’s own documents state it two different ways — $154 on its current fee pages and $157 on its sales agent checklist — because the fingerprint and Rap Back components differ between them. The stable parts are a $100 application fee and a $12 recovery fund fee; confirm the rest with the Division before you budget. The Division’s published fee schedule is also stamped as effective only until 31 December 2025 and we found no successor, so treat every dollar figure as needing a check.
Utah FAQs
Does Utah have a post-licensing requirement?
Not as a separate course, and this is the single most commonly mangled fact about Utah. There is a mandatory 12-hour New Agent course, but Utah Admin. Code R162-2f-204 puts it inside the first renewal’s continuing education rather than on top of it: at your first renewal you complete the 12-hour New Agent course, the Mandatory 3-Hour CE course and three additional non-duplicative hours — eighteen hours in total, the same number a later renewal needs. So Utah is neither a “no post-licensing” state nor a state where you owe an extra course. It is a state where your first eighteen CE hours are almost entirely chosen for you.
How many hours of pre-licensing does Utah require?
One hundred and twenty. Utah Code § 61-2f-203(1)(d)(i)(A) requires an applicant for a sales agent licence to complete a division-approved educational programme “consisting of not less than 120 hours.” It is a single course rather than a set of separately named modules, and the Division’s course-certification rule limits students to no more than eight credit hours a day, so it cannot legally be crammed into a long weekend.
Which exam vendor does Utah use, and what is on the exam?
Pearson VUE, not PSI. The Utah candidate handbook sets the sales agent exam at eighty scored national items and fifty scored state items, with unscored pretest items on top, and four hours to complete it. The passing score is 70 for the salesperson examination, applied to each portion. If you pass one section and fail the other you need retake only the failed section, but only within six months — after that you sit the whole examination again.
How long are my course and my exam result good for?
Twelve months and ninety days respectively. You must pass the exam within twelve months of completing the prelicensing education, and file the licence application within ninety days of passing both components. These are two separate clocks and losing the first one is expensive: it means buying the 120 hours again, not just re-sitting a test.
Does Utah require errors and omissions insurance?
No. There is no errors and omissions provision anywhere in Utah Code Title 61 Chapter 2f, none in the renewal rule R162-2f-204, and none on the Division’s own sales agent licence checklist, which lists five required submissions and no proof of insurance. Utah funds consumer recovery a different way — through the $12 Real Estate Education, Research, and Recovery Fund fee bundled into your application. That fund protects the public against licensees; it is not cover for you. Your brokerage may still require E&O as a condition of joining, but that is a private business term, not Utah licensing law.
Do I need a high school diploma to get a Utah licence?
Yes, and it is a real requirement that many comparison pages omit. Utah Admin. Code R162-2f-201(4) requires an applicant to have a high school diploma, a GED, or equivalent education as approved by the commission. Plenty of states impose nothing of the kind, so this is not a safe assumption to carry in from elsewhere.
Why do I get fingerprinted after I apply rather than before?
Because Utah runs the sequence that way. The statute requires applicants to submit fingerprint cards and consent to a criminal background check by the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification and the FBI, and the Division sends the fingerprint instructions and authorisation forms after your application is submitted. One practical consequence worth planning for: your initial fees include an FBI Rap Back enrolment component, and Rap Back means the Division is notified of new arrests for the life of the licence rather than getting a single snapshot at application.
Does the Division publish exam pass rates by school?
No. Some states do — Colorado, Alabama and Kansas publish first-time pass rates broken out by individual school — but Utah does not, and the only pass-rate content we found on the Division’s site concerns appraiser credentials in aggregate. Any Utah pass rate you see on a school’s own website is self-reported and unaudited. Treat it as marketing.