How to become an Associate Member of RICS (AssocRICS)
Professions commonly can take years of education and work experience to become fully qualified and Quantity Surveying is no different. It is generally considered that obtaining a chartership from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, known as RICS, is the pinnacle of the quantity surveying profession and opens doors to the highest wages and most sort after jobs. Through completing the Assessment of Professional Competence or APC, you can become what RICS term an ‘associate’ (AssocRICS), which is the entry-level membership. By satisfyingfurther obligations you can become a fully chartered member. In this blog we will focus on theassociate route with a follow up blog and video being produced in the coming weeks which will tackle the fully fledged chartered membership. So first things first, you need to enrol with RICS to start the APC. You can enrol