Certified Employee Benefits Specialist

WMU in Grand Rapids is offering classes toward the CEBS program in a 1 night a week format for 10 weeks at the 2333 E. Beltline SE location in Grand Rapids. CEBS is a comprehensive professional designation program consisting of 8 courses covering the essential areas of employee benefits. Courses cover the legal, organizational, and financial areas underlying employee benefit plans. Students who complete the program earn the CEBS professional designation, the most widely recognized and highly respected designation in the employee benefits field.

The new eight-course curriculum model for earning the CEBS designation gives students the flexibility in earning the designation(s) that meet their career objectives. The CEBS program now offers the opportunity to earn three additional designations in three specialty areas, Group Benefits, Retirement Plans, and Compensation Management while pursuing the CEBS designation. Under the new model, the 4 course requirement for earning the GBA and the RPA have not changed. The new CMS: Compensation Management Specialist designation has a 3 course requirement.

The CEBS program is sponsored by the International Foundation of Employee Benefits plans, which is responsible for the overall administration of the program and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, which is responsible for the academic content and educational standards of the program. Western Michigan University in Grand Rapids is the local site for the CEBS coursework.

For more information: Call 616-771-9470 or e-mail gr-center@wmich.edu

For more information about the CEBS program and coursework, please visit: CEBS International Foundation of Employee Benefit web site.