Student membership

Students can access the CQI's member benefits including our content, networking and development platforms. These benefits will encourage and assist you to enhance your career and regrade to Practitioner and Chartered Quality Professional when you are ready to take the next step.

• Networking: We have thousands of members across our memberships and becoming a Student will allow you to interact with our network through our 29 branches, 11 Special Interest Groups and our exclusive LinkedIn group.

• Resources: Our content materials including our quarterly Quality World magazine,  Quality World articles and webinars, in-depth ISO reports, and access to our E-library.

• Development tools: Our development tools including our CPD tool, mentoring platform, Profession map, Quality Careers hub, and Quality Learning hub.

For a more in-depth view of our benefits, please see our benefits pages here.

To become a Student member of the CQI you must be enrolled on a CQI accredited programme of study.

Not all courses are eligible. We currently only accept:

• CQI Accredited higher education programmes

• CQI supported trailblazer apprenticeships

Please note: CQI|IRCA auditor training courses are not acceptable for CQI Student applications. 

If you are not currently undertaking one of these courses, please apply for the Affiliate grade.

During the application process you will be asked to provide details of your course of study. You will be asked to include your student ID number so that we can verify that you are enrolled on the course.

Regrading

You should regrade once you have completed your course. You will not need to pay an additional membership fee to regrade however a small regrade fee is due to process your application.

Fees

The annual membership fee for CQI is pro-rated. The CQI membership cycle starts in January each year. New members can join at any point in the year and fees will be adjusted accordingly. For a link to the fees, please click here.