Become a CIP, the industry’s standard of excellence and professionalism.

Steps to become a CIP:

1. Join your local Insurance Institute and maintain your annual membership. For more information click here.
2. Complete the ten course academic program. 
3. Fulfill one year of full-time employment in the general, life insurance, or related financial services industries. 
4. Abide by the Institute’s Code of Ethics.

Upon completion of steps 1, 2, 3, and assuming continued adherence to the Code of Ethics, your name will be submitted for election as a CIP in May or October.

Once you are elected as a CIP, you will automatically become a member of the Institute’s graduate community, the CIP Society. Your membership in the Society will be without charge until your first membership renewal the following May.

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