Continuing Education for CFP® Certification and Professional Certifications

Fulfill Your Continuing Education (CE) Requirements Online

Trust the industry-leading College for Financial Planning®—a Kaplan Company for your CE needs. For decades, we’ve helped financial professionals maintain their certifications and meet their CE requirements. Designed for working adults, our programs bring you the highest-quality CE resources on your time and schedule. Our curriculum evolves as the industry does, so you stay competitive while gaining the advanced knowledge and skills to create better outcomes for your clients.

Choose from CE courses for CFP® certification renewal or the College’s professional certifications.

Online Continuing Education Courses for CFP® Certification Renewal

CFP® professionals need 30 hours of continuing education every 2 years for CFP® certification renewal, including 2 hours of ethics CE from an approved provider. As a CFP Board-approved continuing education provider, we deliver high-quality self-study CE and ethics courses.

Ethics CE Course

2 Hour Self-Study or Live Online Course

Our 2-hour Ethics CE course is offered as self-study or a live online course. No matter which best fits your schedule, the College reports your hours to CFP Board upon your completion of the attestation at the end of the course.

Total Access CE

Self-Study Courses

Our Total Access CE provides 365 days of unlimited access to all courses approved for CFP® certification CE, excluding the Ethics CE course. Ethics CE is not included in this library of online education courses. If you hold a professional designation through the College for Financial Planning®—a Kaplan Company, courses in our Total Access CE can also help satisfy the 16 continuing education credits required every 2 years to maintain authorized use of your designation.

Online Continuing Education Courses for Professional Certification Renewal

Following the initial conferment of one of the College for Financial Planning® —A Kaplan Company’s professional certifications, authorization for continued use of the credential must be renewed every two years, including 16 continuing education credits* every two years.

Wealth Management Designation Continuing Education Package

Keep on top of industry trends and current hot-button financial topics while earning CE credit. College for Financial Planning®—a Kaplan Company has designed this continuing education package specifically for designees. This package includes only the courses that are relevant to you, giving you the best value without spending your time sorting through courses to determine which will qualify for wealth management CE credit. The College for Financial Planning is proud to be a CFP Board Quality CE Partner.

The package includes:

  • 10+ wealth management courses
  • More than 80 hours of credit to choose from
  • 365 days of unlimited access
  • Printable certificate
  • CE courses taken from the College are exempt from the College’s professional designation CE audits