The Value of APPA’s CEFP Certification

As today’s facilities profession becomes more complex, facilities professionals face various challenges such as aging infrastructure, expanding workload, fewer resources, and utilizing space more efficiently.

APPA’s CEFP (Certified Educational Facilities Professional) is a credential that demonstrates superior proficiency, professional strength, and unfailing dedication to the educational facilities field and its challenges. Professionals who have earned the CEFP distinguish themselves among their peers, representing facilities professionals’ foundational knowledge, talent, and skills.

The value of CEFP Certification is that it is the only facilities credential that focuses on professional development. It encompasses the full, multidisciplinary range of educational facilities management principles and practices—from planning, design, and construction to daily operations and general management. Certification makes you competitive with other professionals and more desirable for future leadership positions—an investment that will pay dividends in career development.

CEFP certification is designed for aspiring and existing educational facilities professionals with eight years of combined education and professional facilities management experience. Click here to learn more about starting your CEFP journey. Study cohorts beginning September 1, November 1, and January 1, 2025, are open. Click here to register.