Transfer Your Engineering License to Missouri: Reciprocity & Endorsement (2026)
Last verified: 2026-07-21 · source: Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Professional Landscape Architects (APELSLA) ↗
Missouri grants PE licensure by comity — its term for endorsement — to an out-of-state Professional Engineer in good standing: the Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Professional Landscape Architects (APELSLA) reviews the credentials in your NCEES Record instead of re-examining you. FE and PE exam results transfer through your NCEES Record and are not retaken; Missouri requires no separate state jurisprudence or law exam for comity. Application fee: $200 (Missouri comity application fee (check or money order payable to the Missouri Board for Professional Engineers; nonrefundable per 20 CSR 2030-6.010). Transmitting an NCEES Record costs $175 for the first board and $100 for each additional board, paid separately to NCEES).
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Verdict
Licensure by endorsement
Comity is Missouri's normal route for an already-licensed engineer, and the word describes what the Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Professional Landscape Architects (APELSLA) actually does: it extends professional courtesy to your existing PE license after confirming your record meets Missouri's practice act, rather than re-examining you. The lever that makes this smooth is your NCEES Record — NCEES compiles your transcripts, experience, references, and FE/PE results and transmits them straight to Missouri, and a Model Law Engineer designation speeds many boards further. One prerequisite is absolute: your current license must be active and unencumbered, so clear any open disciplinary matter before you file.
Read the exam line on this page closely before you assume the move is exam-free. Most boards add nothing to the FE and PE, but a few require a state-specific examination — seismic, surveying, or a statutes-and-rules review — that comity does not waive, and where Missouri requires one it is listed above rather than folded silently into the process.
Comity licensure: Missouri issues a new PE license after confirming an ABET degree, four years of experience, FE/PE exam passage, and an active out-of-state (or foreign) license. Applicants who do not meet standard comity criteria may qualify under Section 327.392 RSMo. The board sits within the Missouri Division of Professional Registration.
Missouri requirements at a glance
| Exam | FE and PE exam results transfer through your NCEES Record and are not retaken; Missouri requires no separate state jurisprudence or law exam for comity |
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| Fees | $200 (Missouri comity application fee (check or money order payable to the Missouri Board for Professional Engineers; nonrefundable per 20 CSR 2030-6.010). Transmitting an NCEES Record costs $175 for the first board and $100 for each additional board, paid separately to NCEES) |
| Processing time | Board publishes no comity turnaround; it states completed applications are processed in order of receipt and that a specific licensure date cannot be projected. NCEES-Record applications are held until the Record is received |
Step by step
- Confirm Missouri's current requirements on the Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Professional Landscape Architects (APELSLA) website — rules change.
- Submit the endorsement application to the Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Professional Landscape Architects (APELSLA) (application linked on this page).
- Arrange license verification from your current state via the verification system.
- Hold an active PE license in another state, territory, or country (Model Law Engineers and NCEES Council Record holders apply through the same comity route).
- Submit an NCEES Council Record (then complete only pages 1 and 5 of the application), or complete the full education, experience, and reference sections of the Missouri application.
- Hold an ABET-accredited bachelor's degree in engineering plus four years of qualifying experience (engineering technology degrees are not accepted).
- Disclose any disciplinary action, provide references, and include a photograph with the application.
- Pay the fees ($200 (Missouri comity application fee (check or money order payable to the Missouri Board for Professional Engineers; nonrefundable per 20 CSR 2030-6.010). Transmitting an NCEES Record costs $175 for the first board and $100 for each additional board, paid separately to NCEES)) and allow Board publishes no comity turnaround; it states completed applications are processed in order of receipt and that a specific licensure date cannot be projected. NCEES-Record applications are held until the Record is received.
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Frequently asked questions
Does my PE license transfer to Missouri?
Missouri grants PE licensure by comity — its term for endorsement — to an out-of-state Professional Engineer in good standing: the Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Professional Landscape Architects (APELSLA) reviews the credentials in your NCEES Record instead of re-examining you. FE and PE exam results transfer through your NCEES Record and are not retaken; Missouri requires no separate state jurisprudence or law exam for comity. Application fee: $200 (Missouri comity application fee (check or money order payable to the Missouri Board for Professional Engineers; nonrefundable per 20 CSR 2030-6.010). Transmitting an NCEES Record costs $175 for the first board and $100 for each additional board, paid separately to NCEES).
Do I retake the FE or PE exam to get licensed in Missouri?
FE and PE exam results transfer through your NCEES Record and are not retaken; Missouri requires no separate state jurisprudence or law exam for comity.
What does PE licensure in Missouri cost an out-of-state applicant?
$200 (Missouri comity application fee (check or money order payable to the Missouri Board for Professional Engineers; nonrefundable per 20 CSR 2030-6.010). Transmitting an NCEES Record costs $175 for the first board and $100 for each additional board, paid separately to NCEES).
How long does the Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Professional Landscape Architects (APELSLA) take to act on a comity application?
Board publishes no comity turnaround; it states completed applications are processed in order of receipt and that a specific licensure date cannot be projected. NCEES-Record applications are held until the Record is received.
Sources
Primary sources only — official boards and compact commissions. Data last verified 2026-07-21.
- Missouri APELSLA — PE Licensure by Comity (requirements) ↗ (accessed 2026-07-21)
- Missouri APELSLA — Application for Licensure as a PE by Comity, Form 375-0130 ($200 fee) ↗ (accessed 2026-07-21)
- NCEES — Records Program (comity transmittal fees) ↗ (accessed 2026-07-21)
Reviewed by Billy Reiner, Editor · verified against primary sources 2026-07-21
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