Annual Certificate Renewal: $225
This fee must be paid each year to keep your Certificate in active status.This fee is discounted by 50 percent for the first three years upon approval for certification for architects who established their Records as interns and who have not allowed their Record to expire.

Annual (non-certified) Renewal: $225
This fee is charged annually to architects not qualifying for the Certificate, to maintain their NCARB Record in good standing.

New Certificate Application Fee: $1,500
This fee covers one year of NCARB services to compile your NCARB Record and verify your credentials. Once you are approved for certification, this fee also maintains your Certificate Record in active status for one year. Please note: NCARB requires documentation from your base state confirming your ARE score history and licensure status. Some jurisdictions charge a fee to process an official report. NCARB will contact you directly, but it will be your responsibility to cover any required fees for this service.

Supplemental Application Fee: $150 to $1,500
This fee, that reactivates your Record in pursuit of certification for former IDP Record holders, is $150 for each year or fraction of a year from the date your Record expired, up to a maximum of $1,500. If you reactivate through the supplemental application process, you will also be required to pay a $200 Certificate fee upon approval.

Transmittal: $400
This fee must be paid for each transmittal of your NCARB Record to a U.S.registration board, Canadian provincial association, or foreign regulatory authority entitled under NCARB agreements or policies.

Reactivation: $250
This fee must be paid to reactivate a Certificate Record that has lapsed for non-payment of renewal fees. In addition, all unpaid annual renewal fees and other outstanding fees must be paid before a Certificate Record can be reactivated.

*All fees are subject to change.

DID YOU KNOW?

Your NCARB Record Provides Discounts on Continuing Education

As an NCARB Record holder, you can earn free continuing education credits by reading NCARB’s mini-monographs and completing the online quizzes. NCARB publishes two mini-monographs a year—worth one credit each—which can be downloaded from the NCARB web site. This is a $70 annual value!

You also receive a $100 discount on every NCARB monograph. That means you can earn continuing education credits for about $15 per unit—one of the lowest costs available for continuing ed anywhere. All NCARB monographs are written by experts in their fields and meet AIA’s health, safety, and welfare (HSW) and sustainable design (SD) continuing education requirements.