Use the resources on this page to find resources for approved courses, exams, and other courses for required certifications and licenses.
Make sure that you confirm that the course provider is active and in good standing with the Minnesota Department of Commerce, and that the Commerce Department has approved the course for continuing credit.
Real Estate agents and appraisers can find prelicensing and continuing education courses on the Pulse Portal.
Insurance producers and adjusters can find approved prelicensing and continuing education courses on the Sircon website.
To schedule an examination, please visit PSI Exams for insurance exams or real estate and appraiser exams, or call PSI Services at (866) 395-1006. Additional information can be found in PSI’s Candidate Information Bulletin for appraiser examinations, insurance examinations, or real estate examinations at the URLs listed above.
BLAINE 2155 Missouri Ave NE, Blaine, MN 55449
BRAINERD 501 W. College Drive, Brainerd, MN 56401
DULUTH 416 West Superior Street, Duluth, MN 55802
EAGAN 1715 Yankee Doodle Rd, Suite 202, Eagan, MN 55121
MANKATO 3030 Airport Rd, Mankato, MN 56001
ROCHESTER 3155 Superior Dr NW, Rochester, MN 55901
ST. PAUL 1935 County Road B2 West, Suite 402A and 402B, St. Paul, MN 55113
WILLMAR 2101 15th Avenue NW, Room A-146, Willmar, MN 56201
WOODBURY 6053 Hudson Road, Suite 210, Woodbury, MN 55125
Before sitting for a licensing exam, insurance producer applicants must first complete the 20 hours of insurance pre-license education per line of authority.
Before registering for the prelicense education, you must ensure that the course provider is active and in good standing with the Commerce Department, and that the Commerce Department has approved the course for prelicense education credit. Course offerings can be found at www.sircon.com.
As an insurance producer licensee, you will have continuing education requirements that must be completed before the expiration date on your license. Producers must complete 24 hours of insurance continuing education before their license renewal deadline, and at least 12 of those hours must not be sponsored by, offered by, or affiliated with an insurance company or its agents.;
A licensee must obtain 3 hours of the credit hours per licensing period from a class or classes in the area of ethics.
Before registering for any continuing education course, you must ensure that the course provider is active and in good standing with the Commerce Department, and that the Commerce Department has approved the course for continuing education credit. Course offerings can be found at www.sircon.com
No prelicensing education is required for Adjusters
As an insurance adjuster licensee, you will have continuing education requirements that must be completed before the expiration date on your license. Adjusters must complete 24 hours of insurance continuing education before their license renewal deadline, and at least 12 of those hours must not be sponsored by, offered by, or affiliated with an insurance company or its agents.
A licensee must obtain 3 hours of the credit hours per licensing period from a class or classes in the area of ethics.
Before registering for any continuing education course, you must ensure that the course provider is active and in good standing with the Commerce Department, and that the Commerce Department has approved the course for continuing education credit. Course offerings can be found at www.sircon.com.
You must successfully complete the 8 hour Closing Procedures course before applying for your license.
Before registering for any prelicense education course, you must ensure that the course provider is active and in good standing with the Commerce Department, and that the Commerce Department has approved the course for prelicense education credit. Course offerings can be found at www.pulseportal.com.
No continuing education is required for closers.
You must successfully complete the 30-hour broker course before applying for your license. You must apply for your broker's license within 12 months of completing the course. Otherwise, you will need to retake it and successfully complete it again.
Before registering for the broker course, you must ensure that the course provider is active and in good standing with the Commerce Department, and that the Commerce Department has approved the course for prelicense education credit. Course offerings can be found at www.pulseportal.com.
As a real estate licensee, you will have continuing education requirements that must be completed before June 30 each year (except for the first June 30 that occurs after you become licensed for the first time or become newly relicensed after your license was inactive for more than two years). In general, real estate brokers must complete 30 hours of real estate continuing education before their June 30 license renewal deadline, and at least 15 of those hours must be completed before the previous June 30. Continuing education must be taken in the appropriate license period; extra hours or courses do not carry over into the next period or satisfy future renewal requirements.
As part of the 15 hours each license year, a real estate broker must complete a specific general module continuing education course and a specific broker module continuing education course (if one is required for that year). As part of the 30 hours required for license renewal, a real estate broker must successfully complete at least one hour of training in courses in laws or regulations on agency representation and disclosure (“Agency Laws”), and at least one hour of training in courses in state and federal fair housing laws, regulations, and rules, other anti-discrimination laws, or courses designed to help licensees to meet the housing needs of immigrant and other underserved populations (“Fair Housing”).
"Commercial-only" brokers and salespersons who are engaged solely in the commercial real estate business and whose commercial-only status has been verified with the Commerce Department through the required filing do not have to complete a course on agency law, a course on fair housing, and a specific module training course, but must fulfill all other continuing education requirements.
The instructions that the broker must follow in order to submit the required filing can be found in the "Becoming a Licensed Real Estate Broker" section of this guide.
Before registering for any continuing education course, you must ensure that the course provider is active and in good standing with the Commerce Department, and that the Commerce Department has approved the course for continuing education credit.
Course offerings can be found at www.pulseportal.com.
There are three courses that you must successfully complete before you apply for a real estate salesperson license, known as "Course I," "Course II," and "Course III." Each course consists of 30 hours of instruction. You must successfully complete Course I before taking the salesperson's examination. You must successfully complete Course II and Course III before applying for your license.
Before registering for any prelicense education course, you must ensure that the course provider is active and in good standing with the Commerce Department, and that the Commerce Department has approved the course for prelicense education credit. Course offerings can be found at www.pulseportal.com.
As a real estate licensee, you will have continuing education requirements that must be completed before June 30 each year (except for the first June 30 that occurs after you become licensed for the first time or become newly relicensed after your license was inactive for more than two years). In general, real estate salespersons must complete 30 hours of real estate continuing education before their June 30 license renewal deadline, and at least 15 of those hours must be completed before the previous June 30. Continuing education must be taken in the appropriate license period; extra hours or courses do not carry over into the next period or satisfy future renewal requirements.
As part of the 15 hours each license year, a real estate salesperson must complete a specific general module continuing education course. As part of the 30 hours required for license renewal, a real estate salesperson must successfully complete at least one hour of training in courses in laws or regulations on agency representation and disclosure (“Agency Laws”), and at least one hour of training in courses in state and federal fair housing laws, regulations, and rules, other antidiscrimination laws, or courses designed to help licensees to meet the housing needs of immigrant and other underserved populations (“Fair Housing”).
"Commercial-only" brokers and salespersons who are engaged solely in the commercial real estate business and whose commercial-only status has been verified with the Commerce Department through the required filing do not have to complete a course on agency law, a course on fair housing, and a specific module training course, but must fulfill all other continuing education requirements.
The instructions that the broker must follow in order to submit the required filing can be found in the "Becoming a Licensed Real Estate Broker" section of this guide.
Registering for courses
Before registering for any continuing education course, you must ensure that the course provider is active and in good standing with the Commerce Department, and that the Commerce Department has approved the course for continuing education credit. Course offerings can be found at www.pulseportal.com.
Important Notice for all Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons and Minnesota-Approved Real Estate License Education Providers
The GENERAL module course for 2024-2025
Here is additional information concerning the required 2024-2025 continuing education module training course. There is one 3.75-hour module course that both salespersons and brokers must complete. Completion of this course will also satisfy the 1-Hour Broker Module Requirement. In other words, there will be no separate broker module course for 2024-2025.
Please note that commercial-only salespersons and brokers are exempt from these module requirements and must apply for the commercial-only waiver when the broker submits verification of this between April 1st and June 30th each year on Pulse Portal at www.pulseportal.com. Additional information can be found at http://mn.gov/commerce/.
The topic for this module course is: Risk Management and Minnesota License Procedures
All non-exempt salespersons and brokers must complete this general module course before June 30, 2025.
Additional details:
Important Notice for all Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons and Minnesota-Approved Real Estate License Education Providers
Study Guide
Required for Section VIII of the Real Estate License Minnesota 2024-2025 Required ModuleModule Topic: Risk Management and Minnesota License Procedures
None Required
Trainee
| Basic appraisal principles | 30 hours |
| Basic appraisal procedures | 30 hours |
| The 15-hour national USPAP course or its equivalent | 15 hours |
| Trainee level total education requirements | 75 hours (plus) |
| Minnesota Supervisor/Trainee Appraiser Course (This Additional Required Course will not count toward qualifying education to upgrade to a higher level appraiser license.) |
None Required
None Required
A minimum of 30 credit hours of Minnesota Department of Commerce pre-approved courses. The 30 hours must include completion of the 7-hour national USPAP update course as required in Minnesota Minnesota Statute 82B.19
*The 15 hour USPAP course cannot be used to satisfy the requirement to complete the 7-hour national USPAP update course.
None required
Licensed Residential
| Basic appraisal principles | 30 hours |
| Basic appraisal procedures | 30 hours |
| The 15-hour national USPAP course or its equivalent | 15 hours |
| Residential market analysis and highest and best use | 15 hours |
| Residential appraiser site valuation and cost approach | 15 hours |
| Residential sales comparison and income approaches | 30 hours |
| Residential report writing and case studies | 15 hours |
| Licensed level total education requirements | 150 hours |
*The “Minnesota Supervisor/Trainee Appraiser Course” must not be counted toward qualifying education to upgrade to a higher level appraiser license.
As a prerequisite for licensing as a licensed real property appraiser, an applicant must present evidence satisfactory to the commissioner that the person has obtained 1,000 hours of experience in real property appraisal obtained in no fewer than 6 months.
An applicant for a licensed real property appraiser license must pass a current uniform licensed real property appraiser examination approved by the Appraiser Qualifications Board.
A minimum of 30 credit hours of Minnesota Department of Commerce pre-approved courses. The 30 hours must include completion of the 7-hour national USPAP update course as required in Minnesota Statute 82B.19
*The 15 hour USPAP course cannot be used to satisfy the requirement to complete the 7-hour national USPAP update course.
Before sitting for a licensing exam, certified residential Appraiser applicants must first complete the 200 hours of Minnesota Department of Commerce pre-approved appraiser pre-license education. The courses must have a particular emphasis on the appraisal of one to four unit residential properties, must include completion of the 15-hour national USPAP course; and
The college-level education specified in the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criteria. Refer to the Summary of Changes document to see the available options.
*The “Minnesota Supervisor/Trainee Appraiser Course” must not be counted toward qualifying education to upgrade to a higher level appraiser license.
Certified Residential
| Basic appraisal principles | 30 hours |
| Basic appraisal procedures | 30 hours |
| The 15-hour national USPAP course or its equivalent | 15 hours |
| Residential market analysis and highest and best use | 15 hours |
| Residential appraiser site valuation and cost approach | 15 hours |
| Residential sales comparison and income approaches | 30 hours |
| Residential report writing and case studies | 15 hours |
| Statistics, modeling, and finance | 15 hours |
| Advanced residential applications and case studies | 15 hours |
| Appraiser subject matter electives | 20 hours |
| (May include hours over minimum shown above in other modules) | |
| Certified Residential level total education requirements | 200 hours |
As a prerequisite for licensing as a certified residential real property appraiser, an applicant must present evidence satisfactory to the commissioner that the person has obtained 1,500 hours of experience in real property appraisal obtained in no fewer than 12 months.
An applicant for a certified residential real property appraiser license must pass a current uniform certified residential real property appraiser examination approved by the Appraiser Qualifications Board.
A minimum of 30 credit hours of Minnesota Department of Commerce pre-approved courses. The 30 hours must include completion of the 7-hour national USPAP update course as required in Minnesota Statute 82B.19
*The 15 hour USPAP course cannot be used to satisfy the requirement to complete the 7-hour national USPAP update course.
Before sitting for a licensing exam, certified residential Appraiser applicants must first complete the 300 hours of Minnesota Department of Commerce pre-approved appraiser pre-license education. The courses must have a particular emphasis on the appraisal of nonresidential properties. The 300 hours must include completion of the 15-hour national USPAP course; and
A bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited college or university.
Certified General
| Basic appraisal principles | 30 hours |
| Basic appraisal procedures | 30 hours |
| The 15-hour national USPAP course or its equivalent | 15 hours |
| General appraiser market analysis and highest and best use | 30 hours |
| Statistics, modeling, and finance | 15 hours |
| General appraise sales comparison approach | 30 hours |
| General appraiser site valuation and cost approach | 30 hours |
| General appraiser income approach | 60 hours |
| General appraiser report writing and case studies | 30 hours |
| Appraisal subject matter electives | 30 hours |
| (May include hours over minimum shown above in other modules) | |
| Certified General level total education requirements | 300 hours |
*The “Minnesota Supervisor/Trainee Appraiser Course” must not be counted toward qualifying education to upgrade to a higher level appraiser license.
As a prerequisite for licensing as a certified general real property appraiser, an applicant must present evidence satisfactory to the commissioner that the person has obtained 3,000 hours of experience in real property appraisal obtained in no fewer than 18 months. At least 50 percent, or 1,500 hours, must be in nonresidential appraisal work.
An applicant for a certified general real property appraiser license must pass a current uniform certified general real property appraiser examination approved by the Appraiser Qualifications Board.
All applicants must complete the applicable education prerequisites and the experience requirements before sitting for the examination.
A minimum of 30 credit hours of Minnesota Department of Commerce pre-approved courses. The 30 hours must include completion of the 7-hour national USPAP update course as required in Minnesota Statute 82B.19
*The 15 hour USPAP course cannot be used to satisfy the requirement to complete the 7-hour national USPAP update course.
Appraiser Individual CE Course Application
82B.19.Subd. 5.
EFFECTIVE DATE: September 1, 2022
(a) For purposes of this subdivision, the following terms have the meanings given:
(1) "asynchronous educational offering" has the meaning given in the most recent version of the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criteria, as established by the Appraiser Qualifications Board; and
(2) "synchronous educational offering" has the meaning given in the most recent version of the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criteria, as established by the Appraiser Qualifications Board, and includes an educational process based on live or real-time instruction where there is no geographic separation of instructor and student.
(b) Notwithstanding section 45.30, subdivisions 1 and 6, a real estate appraiser may submit, in a form prescribed by the commissioner, an application for continuing education credit for a synchronous educational offering that has not been submitted for prior approval in Minnesota. The commissioner must grant a real estate appraiser continuing education credit if:
(1) the application is submitted on or before August 1 of the year in which the real estate appraiser license is due for renewal;
(2) the synchronous educational offering has been approved for continuing education credit by the regulator of real estate appraisers in at least one other state or United States territory; and
(3) an application is submitted by the real estate appraiser to the commissioner within 30 days of successful completion of the synchronous educational offering.
(c) The application must include a certificate of successful completion from the synchronous educational offering provider. The commissioner must grant a real estate appraiser the same number of continuing education credits for the successful completion of the synchronous educational offering as was approved for the offering by the out-of-state real estate appraiser regulatory authority. The commissioner must grant a real estate appraiser continuing education credit within 60 days of the submission of the completed application for out-of-state continuing education credit.
(d) The commissioner may charge a fee to a real estate appraiser, in an amount to be determined by the commissioner, to submit an application under this subdivision.
(e) This subdivision does not apply to asynchronous educational offerings.
EFFECTIVE DATE: September 1, 2022