"The Institute offers Five type of membership"

1. Affiliate Member

2. Associate Member

3. Full Member

4. Fellow Member

5. Corporate Member

Members of the academic professions and those people who provide internal consulting are to be classified as Associates until such time as they can demonstrate they have the equivalent of three years management consulting experience, at which time they may be classified as a Member.

Affiliate:

The grade of Affiliate is intended for those individuals who can demonstrate a genuine and proven interest in the profession of management consultancy and who are not eligible to become an Associate or Member. Individuals admitted to the grade of Affiliate will be termed Affiliates. The following groups have been identified as likely and suitable, though not necessarily exclusive, sources of Affiliates.

Associate:

A graduate with less than three years management consulting experience or a non-graduate with more than eight years management consulting experience may qualify as an Associate.

Full (MIMC):

A graduate with three years management consulting experience may be graded as a Member. If an applicant does not possess a degree but has eight years management consulting experience and is working full time as a management consultant they may be accepted as a Member. 

Fellow (FIMC):

A Member, who has held that grade for not less than five years, practiced management consulting for not less than fifteen years and is deemed to have served the profession with distinction, may be graded as a Fellow.

Accountants chartered engineers, lawyers and other professional managers and advisers whose work includes independent management consultancy:

1. Management consultancies' senior practice support staff

2. Staff at universities and business schools

3. Entrants to the profession prior to becoming IMCB Associates

4. MBA graduates

5. Students if recommended by their tutors