CPA LICENSURE BY JURISDICTION

The Exam is national. Becoming licensed is state by state.

Every candidate sits the same Uniform CPA Examination, built from the same AICPA Blueprint — see the six Exam sections. But passing the Exam doesn’t make you a licensed CPA on its own: each of the 50 states, DC, and 5 U.S. territories runs its own licensure process through its own Board of Accountancy — its own education (credit-hour and coursework) requirements, its own work-experience requirement, its own ethics-exam rule, and its own application and fee process. For the general national pattern behind these requirements, see eligibility & experience requirements.

This directory reflects a real research pass, not a template: 55 of 56 jurisdictions below have been checked against an official board source in depth and are marked “verified”; the rest carry a confirmed, correct Board of Accountancy name and link but an honest “needs verification” note on the specific numbers — we’d rather tell you that plainly than guess at a credit-hour count.