Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)^®

Regardless of your career stage, the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)^® is an asset that will distinguish you in the job market and enhance your credibility and effectiveness working on — or with — project teams.

Organizations with standardized practices attain better results, as shown in our 2015 Pulse of the Profession^® report. Because the CAPM^® recognizes your knowledge of the profession’s preeminent global standard, you’ll stand out to employers and be poised to move ahead.

Project management is a rapidly growing profession. Research indicates that employers will need to fill nearly 2.2 million new project-oriented roles each year through 2027. With the CAPM, you’ll be on the fast track to opportunity.

Students can submit one application form to join PMI as a student member and take the CAPM exam at the member discount rate.

Learn more about becoming a student member.

If you’d like to manage larger projects and gain more responsibility or add project management skills into your current role, then the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) is right for you.

Gain and Maintain Your CAPM

• The certification exam has 150 questions, and you have three hours to complete it.
• CAPM certification holders need to earn 15 PDUs every three years to maintain the certification. Find out the specific PDU requirements.

Member:$225.00
Non-member:$300.00 

Prerequisites

• Secondary degree (high school diploma, associate’s degree or the global equivalent)
• 23 hours of project management education completed by the time you sit for the exam. Our Project Management Basics online course fulfills this educational prerequisite.