CRPS® Designation
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Top 5 Benefits of Earning the CRPS® Designation

Learn how you can become an expert in wholesale retirement plan administration and improve your career with the CRPS® designation.

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Industry Recognition:

The CRPS® designation is recognized as the industry-benchmark for retirement plan administration credentials and is endorsed by the top financial firms.

Stackable Credits:

CRPS® designees receive credit for an elective in our MS Degree in Personal Financial program. This allows you to save both time and money while pursuing multiple credentials.

Tangible Career Benefits:

Financial planning professionals working in a financial planning role both the year before and year after receiving their most recent specialized professional designation such as the CRPS® designation reported an average 16% earnings increase in the year after earning that professional designation.

Fulfill Continuing Education Requirements:

For CFP® professionals who must complete continuing education requirements as part of certification renewal, program completion fulfills 28 hours of continuing education.

If you currently hold a professional designation from the College, completion of a new professional designation program fulfills 16 hours of continuing education as part of the renewal of your current designation. 

Skills That Benefit You and Your Clients:

Learn to better create, implement, and  maintain retirement plans to benefit your clients while advancing your own financial career.

"I found the CRPS® program to be an excellent, comprehensive course that covered the basics of retirement planning and helped me increase my knowledge of concepts such as Defined Benefit Plans and 457 Plans. At my suggestion, this course will be mandatory for all associates at my firm who aspire to become Retirement Specialists."—Anne F.

16% Earnings Increase: Earnings increases are dependent on numerous factors other than, or in addition to, completion of the specialized financial designation including specific employment conditions and individual experience. The College for Financial Planning®—a Kaplan Company does not guarantee any earnings increase resulting directly from such designation. Results are the findings of a quantitative survey conducted by the College for Financial Planning between June 27 and August 7, 2023. For this survey, a sample of 951 2022 and 2023 graduates of the College for Financial Planning was interviewed online in English. This earnings increase was based on 366 graduates with a specialized financial designation (AAMS®, ABFP®, ADPA®, APMA®, AWMA®, CRPC®, CRPS®, CSRIC®, FPQP®, SE-AWMA®, WMS℠) who were employed in a financial planning role both the year before and year after receiving their most recent professional designation.