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ISA Certified Arborist/Municipal Specialist

This certification is also for professional arborists who are ISA Certified Arborists in good standing and have additional experience in the specialty area of urban trees. The municipal specialists work for cities and states, parks, contractors or consultants. One of the certification objectives is to provide the public and those in government with a means to identify those professionals who have demonstrated, through a professionally developed exam and education program, that they have a thorough knowledge of establishing and maintaining trees in a community.

Click here to download a copy of the ISA Municipal Specialist Application Handbook (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).

Mail or fax application with payment to:
International Society of Arboriculture
Post Office Box 3129,
Champaign, IL 61826-3129
Phone (217) 355-9411,
Fax (217) 355-9516,

ISA Certification is now offering the ISA Certified Arborist / Municipal Specialist exam online worldwide.

If you chose to take the exam through the computer based testing, you will need to complete your application indicating you wish to take the computer based exam. The application will ask you for an exam date, you will leave this blank as this will not be decided until after your application has been reviewed and approved by our office. Once your application has been approved and processed we will email you a confirmation letter with instructions on how to schedule your exam date when it works best for you as long as it is within 90 days.

If you wish to take the exam through the computer based testing there will be a $100 administration fee on top of the normal exam fees. The administration fee is each time an applicant takes the exam through this system.

In order to schedule a computer based exam, you MUST submit your application and/or retake form to ISA. The testing vendor will not allow you to schedule an exam directly through them.

To view computer based testing locations please choose the link below.
Computer based testing locations

Click here to complete the Municipal Specialist Application online. (1st time applicants only)
Once you have submitted your application successfully, you will receive a confirmation email stating your application was received by the Applications Coordinator.

Click here to see a list of recommended study materials for the exam
Click here to view the exam outline.

Test Locations and Dates for Chapter Sponsored Certified Arborist, Utility Specialist and Municipal Specialist Exams.

http://www.isa-arbor.com/certification/tests.aspx

Interested in the ISA Membership?

Click here for information on becoming a member of the International Society of Arboriculture.

If you have any questions you may email us at cert@isa-arbor.com or call us at (217) 355-9411.

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