SALISBURY, N.C. — The North Carolina Real Estate Commission has recognized Rowan-Cabarrus Community College for its students’ success taking the state real estate license examination.

            In a letter, Lisa McQuillen, N.C. Real Estate Commission licensing and education officer, commended RCCC for its students achieving a first-time exam pass rate of 80 percent or higher between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2007.

            “Of 66 schools with six or more students tested, your school [RCCC] was one of only 10 schools to reach this level of performance,” McQuillen wrote. “The overall performance for all first-time examination candidates was 67 percent.

            “We recognize that to have your students perform at such a level on the license examination requires a combination of high quality instruction and high course completion standards,” McQuillen added.

           RCCC offers a certificate program in real estate licensing. The program provides licensing education required by the N.C. Real Estate Commission for students preparing to take the real estate license examination and for provisional brokers seeking removal of the provisional status. 

           Course work includes the practices and principles of real estate; broker relationships as they apply to customers, sellers and buyers; contract procedures; fair housing and real estate methodology.  Course work also includes professional development opportunities.

           Graduates who pass the real estate license examination and obtain a real estate provisional broker license should be able to provide basic, residential real estate services as a broker affiliated with a real estate firm.

            Lois Branning is RCCC’s real estate program head. For more information about real estate education at RCCC, contact Branning at 704-216-3755 or branningl@rowancabarrus.edu.

           Rowan-Cabarrus Community College is a comprehensive, community-based institution of higher learning, serving the citizens of Rowan and Cabarrus Counties. RCCC offers approximately 40 programs of study in business, health and human services and engineering technologies at multiple campus locations. RCCC annually provides more than 2,000 course offerings, serving an enrollment of approximately 20,000 adult students. RCCC programs include an associate degree in arts and sciences, an associate degree in applied science, and diploma and certificate programs focusing on workforce training, continuing education and basic skills education.

           In addition, RCCC provides the education and job-training programs needed to meet many of the workforce demands of the North Carolina Research Campus, under construction in Kannapolis, N.C.

           For complete details, see the RCCC website at www.rowancabarrus.edu.