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I have heard conflicting information regarding a college degree requirement for the Certified Residential and Certified General classifications. What are the new college credit requirements?
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There may be some confusion on this issue because you can meet the requirement with either a degree or a certain number of college-level courses. For the Certified Residential classification, you must have either an Associates degree or higher in any field of study; or, in lieu of the required degree, you can take twenty-one (21) semester credit hours in specific subject matter courses. (See Criteria Comparison Chart on page 3). For the Certified General classification, you must have either a Bachelors degree or higher in any field of study; or, in lieu of the required degree, you can take thirty (30) semester credit hours in specific subject matter courses. (See Criteria Comparison Chart in the Appendix.) |
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Are the college course requirements far the certified classifications in lieu of appraisal education or in addition to it?
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The college course requirements are in addition to (above and beyond) the 200 hours of appraisal education needed for Certified Residential and the 300 hours needed for Certified General. It is possible in some instances that college course requirements could also meet the Required Core Curriculum requirements. For example, the “in lieu” requirements for Certified General include a course on statistics. Statistics is also listed as a module in the Required Core Curriculum; It may be possible that a statistics course could be used to fulfill part of the college course requirements and also to meet the Required Core Curriculum. This decision will be up to each individual state. |
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The new Criteria requires that a college degree or specified college courses be from an “accredited college or university.” What type of accreditation is required for the courses to be acceptable?
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Courses will be acceptable if they are taken at a college, university or community college that is approved or accredited by the Commission on Colleges, a regional or national accreditation association, or by an accrediting agency that is recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education.
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Are there any limitations an how long ago the required college course work was completed?
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The AQB does not impose any restrictions on when college coursework was completed; however, some states may have instituted certain restrictions.
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