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How to Join

Membership information

  • ACAPT annual membership dues are $4,000 per separately-accredited program. The dues cycle is July 1 to June 30 of the following year.

  • After June 30, those institutions not paid will be in the grace period which ends forty-five (45) calendar days before the annual ACAPT business meeting at the Annual Physical Therapy Education Leadership Conference (ELC). This year's Annual Meeting will be on Thursday, October 16, 2025 from 5:00 - 8:00 pm CT.

  • If the dues are not received within forty-five (45) calendar days before the annual business meeting, an institution’s membership benefits will be revoked and the membership rights, including voting on motions, will terminate.  Upon payment of dues, a member institution may be reinstated.

  • Institutions must identify their ACAPT member representative each year at the time dues are paid.  Representatives can be either the program director or a full-time core faculty member (as defined by CAPTE.)

  • To request institution membership or ask any other questions about membership or renewals, please contact us at acapt@acapt.org.

How to join or renew ACAPT membership

Video tutorials with step-by-step instructions on how to login and process your renewal payment.

 

Who are ACAPT members?

1. CAPTE-accredited physical therapist education programs or those with Candidate for Accreditation within the United States.
  • Attending all ACAPT business meetings
  • Participating in discussions and debates
  • Making, co-sponsoring, and seconding motions
  • Voting on ACAPT matters
  • Holding office within ACAPT
  • Appointing an academic faculty member as your official ACAPT Representative

2. Provisional Institutional Members
Eligibility: Institutions in the early or intermediate stages of developing a PT education program meeting one of the following:
  • PT Candidacy Category B: Have applied for Candidacy to CAPTE but have not yet received Candidate for Accreditation status.
  • PT Candidacy Category C: Have notified CAPTE of the employment of a Program Director, even if they have not yet submitted a Candidacy Application.

Provisional Members’ rights include: 
  • To attend all ACAPT business meetings 
  • To speak and debate

 


Create your free profile to access benefits in the ACAPT Member Portal.

 

Eligibility Information

APTA members who represent institutions of higher education located in the United States of America with a physical therapist education program that is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE) may be designated as Council members by such an institution. The institution will be represented by one academic administrator or other designated full‐time core faculty member (as defined by CAPTE) in the program.

  • Institutions with an accredited physical therapist education program that offer one or more expansion programs shall have one institutional representative selected by the Institution.
  • Institutions with two separately accredited physical therapist education programs may have one designated representative for each of those accredited physical therapist education programs.
  • The individual designated to represent any institution must be a member in good standing of the Association.
  • The institution must continue to maintain a program that is accredited by CAPTE. An institution whose program has lost accreditation shall regain the right to designate a representative to the Council if its program regains accreditation from CAPTE.

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