Our Methodology

This page explains exactly how we collect data, score providers, and keep the process the same for every school listed — including Champions School of Real Estate, which owns and operates this directory. If you believe any figure here is inaccurate or outdated, contact us using the details on our Disclosure page and we will correct it.

Data sources

Exam pass rates: sourced from TREC’s Education Provider Exam Passage Rates report, reporting period 12/1/2023–11/30/2025, pulled 2026-10-26. TREC recalculates this monthly — re-check before publishing and whenever more than a few weeks have passed.
License & provider status: sourced from TREC’s Search Approved Courses / Qualifying Education providers tool.
Pricing, format, and access windows: collected directly from each provider’s publicly posted course pages. See each provider’s own page for its specific “checked [date]” citation — dates are tracked per-provider rather than as a single sitewide date, since each was gathered independently.

Per TREC’s own advertising rule (§535.65(c)(1)(C)): “it is misleading to include information provided in this table in any advertisement unless the advertisement also contains the percentage results shown below and the number of exams taken and passed in the same type size and prominence.” We apply that standard sitewide — every pass-rate percentage on this site is shown next to an equally-sized exam-count figure, never alone.

We do not have a data source yet for student-review sentiment claims made in earlier drafts of this project. Any “student satisfaction” or review-aggregation score must either cite a specific, checkable source (e.g., a named review platform with a link) or be removed before publishing.

“Allied Real Estate Schools” could not be matched to a provider name in the current TREC report as of 2026-10-26 — see its directory page for the required follow-up before publishing.

How we score & present providers

Every provider page is built from the same template and the same four factors, applied consistently regardless of which school is being described:

Pass Rate & Volume

We always show the pass percentage next to the number of exams it is based on, so a small sample isn’t mistaken for a statistically stable trend.

Format & Support

Online-only, hybrid, or classroom-based, and what live human support (if any) is included.

Access & Terms

How long you can access purchased coursework before it expires or requires a renewal fee.

Career Pathway Coverage

Whether the provider offers Pre-Licensing only, or also SAE, CE, and Broker-level coursework.

Keeping Champions’ listing honest

Because Champions School of Real Estate owns this directory, we hold our own listing to the same evidentiary bar as competitors:

Every statistic on the Champions page must link to the same category of public source (TREC reports, our own published course terms) used for competitors — not internal or unverifiable marketing figures.
We list genuine trade-offs (e.g., higher price point, physical campuses not available in every city) alongside advantages, rather than omitting them.
We do not alter TREC-reported pass-rate data for any provider, including our own, and we refresh it on the same cadence for every school.

Update cadence

TREC publishes updated Exam Passage Reports monthly. We target a monthly refresh cadence to match — pulling updated pass-rate and exam-count figures for every listed provider at least once a month, and sooner if a provider's terms (pricing, access windows, format) change. Each provider page displays a “data last verified” / “checked [date]” citation reflecting when its specific figures were last pulled.