Yes. Although the Real Estate Commissioner licenses private schools to offer real estate classes through home study
and on-line, the quality of the education provided is unverifiable. Many of these courses only require only 18 days
to complete the course and an open book, multiple choice exams. Mt. SAC will typically honor Real Estate Principles
from an accredited college or university. If the student has passed the State Real Estate Exam and has been issued
a real estate license, Mt. SAC will typically accept this as having met the Real Estate Principles requirement.
The chief concern is whether the student will be able to understand the material in the advanced real estate courses.
Successful completion of Real Estate Principles from an accredited college/university satisfies this concern.
The determination as to whether or not the Real Estate Principles requirement is to be waived is made by the Real Estate Coordinator (Prof. Edwin Estes). In making this determination, the Coordinator will typically have the student take a 100 question comprehensive Real Estate Principles final examination. The resulting score will be used to determine if the student has the requisite knowledge to take advanced real estate classes.
BUSR 50
- Real Estate Principles is a prerequisite for all real estate (BUSR) classes. However, it is a co-requisite for
BUSR 52
- Real Estate Practice, so you could take Principles and Practice at the same time, but you could not take any other real estate class until you completed Real Estate Principles with a grade of C or better. You could take Accounting, Business Law or Macro Economics as a third class and fulfill your education requirements in one semester.
I took Business Law several years ago; will that qualify for my third class?
