Squared 2025 - From the NCEES Chief Executive Officer - NCEES licensure statistics and exam updates

Sep 18, 2026

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Squared 2025 shares key NCEES statistics on engineering and surveying licensure, presenting a clear snapshot of where licensure stands and where it is headed. The data summarizes the most recent NCEES fiscal year (Oct 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2025), offering insights into trends such as professional growth, demographic shifts, and member-board activity. The issue also highlights exam volumes, Interactive Practice Exams, and new or developing exam specifications and administrations.

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Pages52

Reading Time2 h 11 min

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R E A C H | | | | | 34 | 3 | | 6 | | | | | | A | D V O C A C Y | L I C | | E N S U R E | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0 2 F R O MT H E I’m pleased to introduce the 2025 issue of Squared , the official NCEES publication that shares key statistics about engineering and surveying licensure. Each year, we pull together this data to give a clear picture of what is happening across the professionsand to help guide the national conversation around the path to licensure. The mission of NCEES is to advance licensure for engineers and surveyors in order to safeguard the health, safety, and welfare of the public. Squared is our way of turning those numbers into a story about where licensure stands today and where it is headed. The data gives us valuable insights into the professions—whether it ’s identifying new areas of growth or understanding shifts in demographics. All of the information represents the most recent NCEES fiscal year, which began October 1, 2024, and ended September 30, 2025. We hope Squared is a useful resource and reference that will enable you to better understand licensure and its importance to our lives every day. Davy McDowell, P. E. N C E E S C H I E F E X E C U T I V E O F F I C E R 1 O U R M E M B E R S N C E E S Who we are The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing licensure for engineers and surveyors . Licensed professional engineers and professional surveyors have met specific qualifications in education, exams, and work experience. They are obligated to work in a manner that safeguards the health, safety, and welfare of the public. Since its creation in 1920, NCEES has worked to facilitate interstate mobility for professional engineers and surveyors by providing its member boards and licensees with services that promote uniformity in licensure laws throughout the United States. These services include uniform exams, model laws and rules, NCEES Records, and NCEES Credentials Evaluations. The members of NCEES are the engineering and surveying licensing boards from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U. S. Virgin Islands. Some member boards represent only engineering or surveying. The majority of them represent both. Other boards are multiprofessional and regulate additional professions, such as architecture. One board (Illinois SE) regulates structural engineering as a separate licensure category. Most licensing board members are appointed by their governors. The makeup of board membership varies according to a jurisdiction ’s statutes (required number of professional engineers, professional surveyors, public members, etc.) . 11 Engineering only 13 Surveying only ALASKA HAWAII GUAM NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS 1 Structural only 69 NCEES member boards 17 Multiprofessional 28 41 27 Joint engineering/ surveying 72 Other licensed professionals P. E ./P. S. (dual Vacancies licensees) 249 P. E . only 97 Public members 623 Licensing board members 136 P.S. only CENTRAL WASHINGTON NORTHEAST MONTANA OREGON IDAHO WYOMING NEVADA CALIFORNIA UTAH COLORADO ARIZONA NEW MEXICO NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA NEBRASKA KANSAS MINNESOTA WISCONSIN IOWA MICHIGAN OHIO INDIANA ILLINOIS MISSOURI KENTUCKY TENNESSEE OKLAHOMA ARKANS

FAQs

What does Squared 2025 focus on?

Squared 2025 provides key statistics about engineering and surveying licensure, turning those numbers into a story about licensure today and its direction. It also highlights exam updates and trends.

Which time period does the data cover?

The information represents the most recent NCEES fiscal year, which began October 1, 2024 and ended September 30, 2025.

What exam developments are announced in Squared 2025?

The issue reports updated exam volumes, continued popularity of Interactive Practice Exams, new PE exam specifications launched in October 2025, and exam development for the PLSS and PE Mechanical Plumbing exams with administrations starting in October 2027 and October 2028, respectively.

Sep 18, 2026

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