Professional

If you are an Interior Designer and have passed the NCIDQ exam, you qualify as a Professional Member. Your application must include:

• Photocopy of NCIDQ Certificate or Card

IIDA Memberships run on the calendar year, January through December. If you are applying as a New Member or you are reactivating your Membership, there is a onetime $75 application fee.

Professional $465
Professionals are actively engaged in the profession and are NCIDQ certified.

Inactive Professional $235
Inactive Members are in good standing, but unable to continue practicing due to disability, illness, unemployment or relocation.

Retired Professional $193
Retired Members are Members in good standing but no longer practice nor intend to return to practice.

To qualify as a Professional IIDA Member you must be NCIDQ-certified.

NCIDQ Exam Eligibility Requirements

NCIDQ maintains minimum education and work experience requirements for eligibility to take the NCIDQ Examination.The amount of combined education and work experience required depends on certain characteristics of each. NCIDQ has developed six eligibility routes for determining when you are eligible to apply to take the exam. 

NCIDQ Experience Requirements

All work experience used to satisfy the eligibility requirements must be interior-design-related. Work experience may be full-time or part-time. NCIDQ recommends working under the direct supervision of an NCIDQ Certificate holder, a registered Interior Designer or an architect who offers Interior Design services to ensure that 100% of your work experience counts.  Check here for NCIDQ's qualified work experience information.