Experience
Combined with education, a potential candidate for the AICP exam must have a required number of years of professional planning experience. The amount of experience depends on education. The Planning Accreditation Board awards and certifies planning programs accreditation. After graduation from an accredited master's planning program, a person has to have only 2 years of professional planning experience before he or she may sit for the AICP exam. Graduation from a non-accredited program with a masters degree in planning requires 3 years of experience. Graduating with a PAB accredited bachelor's planning degree, a person has to have 3 years of professional planning experience to sit for the AICP exam. Any other graduate or undergraduate degree requires 4 years of experience. Not having an undergraduate degree requires 8 years of professional planning experience before one can sit for the AICP exam.
On April 13, 2007, the AICP Commission approved a new Certification Maintenance (CM) program. As a result, AICP certified planners must earn and report 32 credits of eligible professional development activities every two years as part of this new CM requirement. This program replaced the voluntary Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program, which terminated on April 13, 2007.
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