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RICS Routes to Membership

Graduate Route

Academic/Professional Qualifications

Relevant Prior Experience

APC Structured Training APC Final Assessment Submissions

APC Final Assessment Interview

Graduate 1 RICS accredited degree Part-time and placement year students may enrol on to the APC during the final year of study or the placement year. At least 12 of the 24 months’ structured training must be completed after graduating. *

None

• 24 months’ structured

training to meet competency requirements

• Regular meetings with Supervisor/Counsellor

• 96 hours of professional development over structured training period

• ‘Signed off’ mandatory and technical

achievement records • Logbook • Record of professional development

over last 24 months • Critical analysis (3 000 words)

• 60 minute interview

including 10 minute presentation on critical analysis

• Testing on professional practice/ethics

Graduate 2 RICS accredited degree The 12 months’ structured training must be completed after graduating. *

At least five years’ relevant experience before starting APC. Pre-degree experience can count

• 12 months’ structured

training • Regular meetings with

Supervisor/Counsellor • 48 hours’ professional

development over the structured training period


achievement records • Logbook • Record of professional development

over last 12 months • Critical analysis (3 000 words)




Graduate 3 RICS accredited degree

At least 10 years’ relevant experience before starting APC. Pre-degree experience can count

• 48 hours’ professional

development over last 12 months


achievement records • Record of professional development

over last 12 months • Critical analysis (3 000 words) • Résumé detailing the relevant

technical and mandatory skills required by the APC pathway (submitted to RICS at application)




* Those undertaking an accredited postgraduate degree part-time may enrol on to the APC and complete the structured training

concurrently. They must have graduated from their degree course before being eligible to take final assessment.

Issue Date : 22 October 2007 RICS Routes to Membership


Academic Route

Academic / Professional

Qualifications

Relevant Prior Experience

APC Final Assessment Portfolio APC Final Assessment

Interview RICS accredited degree OR A surveying related higher degree

At application, a holder of an RICS accredited degree must have undertaken academic activities relevant to the profession over a three year period. (The three years can be a total, not necessarily continuous ie in ‘one block’) OR An applicant who does not have an RICS accredited degree but has a surveying related higher degree, must have undertaken academic activities over a three year period on a course that is now accredited. (The three years can be a total, not necessarily continuous ie in ‘one block’)

• Four items to be evidenced from the list of options below*. At least one must

be from each of the three lists and at least one of the four must be to Level 3 in a core competency from the chosen APC pathway :

Teaching options – at least one from this list

• Post graduate teaching qualification • Successful mentoring of research students • Course leadership and development

Research options – at least one from this list • Peer group refereed research paper / report • Book • Book chapter • Conference paper • Patent • Consultancy report

External Engagement – at least one from this list • Engagement with employers • Consultancy activities • Engagement with professional organisation

* All published work presented must have been published / completed within the three years and prior to Final Assessment Interview. It must be of a quality that is recognised nationally in terms of its originality, significance, rigour and contribution to research and / or policy agendas. • 3 000 word statement that documents the relevance of the portfolio to the

profession and how this has been applied to the chosen APC pathway. • Record of professional development, 48 hours in the 12 months prior to

interview.

60 minute interview based on portfolio of evidence with a 10 minute presentation on one item to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the mandatory, core and optional competencies of the chosen APC pathway in the context of teaching and research, as well as of professional practice, research ethics and professional ethics

NB No APC structured training is required for this route



Academic / Professional

Qualifications

Experience and Seniority Management Competencies

Pre Interview Submissions

Assessment Interview


Notes: 1) applicants must normally be nominated by national associations or faculties. 2) for senior professional academics the required surveying experience is interpreted as undertaking academic activities relevant to the profession.

A surveying related first degree OR Relevant professional (degree equivalent) membership A surveying related first degree and a surveying related higher degree OR A surveying related higher degree achieved after at least five years’ full time study (or part time equivalent) without a first (undergraduate) degree having been awarded PhD in a surveying related subject

10 years’ surveying experience, at least two years of which must be since graduation or since attaining professional membership, and now in a senior industry position Five years’ surveying experience, at least two years of which must be since graduation or since attaining professional membership, and now in a senior industry position Five years’ surveying experience, at least two years of which must be since completion of PhD, and now in a senior industry position

• Demonstration of

attainment in additional mandatory competencies in leadership, managing people and managing resources

• Résumé providing evidence

of meeting the relevant technical and mandatory skills required by the chosen APC pathway

• Record of professional

development • 3 x 500 word case studies

demonstrating competency – one should include demonstration of management and leadership skills (with the option to substitute a maximum of two of the case studies with published articles or presentations taken from the last three years)*

* for senior professional academics, one should provide evidence of consultancy work


including 10 minute personal introduction based on résumé

• Testing on professional

practice/ethics and leadership and management skills

Senior Professional Route


Adaptation Route Academic / Professional

qualifications Relevant Prior

Experience APC Structured

Training APC Final Assessment

Submissions APC Final Assessment

Interview Adaptation 1 RICS-approved professional body membership or non accredited degree AND 450 study hours from an RICS accredited degree either at postgraduate level or final year of an undergraduate programme or from an approved training provider

At least 10 years’ relevant experience before starting APC. Pre-degree experience can count

• 48 hours’ professional

development over last 12 months

• Record of professional

development over last 12 months • Critical analysis (3 000 words) • Résumé detailing the relevant

technical and mandatory skills required by the APC pathway (submitted to RICS at application)

• ‘Signed off’ mandatory and technical achievement records




Adaptation 2 For EU applications – covered by EU Directive. There is an EU Directive that ensures mutual recognition of professional qualification. RICS is a “designated body” under EU law for deciding whether or not qualifications from other EU countries would permit an individual to practise as a chartered surveyor in the UK. Candidates for RICS membership under the Directive must be members of a relevant professional body in their country of residence. RICS will assess whether or not the requirements of any candidate’s professional body are equivalent to those of RICS. If there is a shortfall, RICS will identify the training and experience and/or assessment of competence needed before the candidate can be admitted to membership.

PLEASE NOTE – THERE IS NO AGE RESTRICTION FOR ANY ROUTE


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