How To Get Your General Engineering Contractors License

Also known as the General A License.

Contractor License School (that’s us!) is proud to offer a General Engineering Contractor License course for the state of California.

Requirements for License

In order to obtain a contractor license as a general engineering contractor in the state of California, one must have four years of experience in the trade at a journeyman level. If you have 4 years of experience — only two years with a college degree — you are qualified to obtain your license.

And as a Contractor License school, we’re qualified to walk you through the licensing process.

If you have the 4 years of experience now is the time to change your life, be your own boss, and reach your financial potential. Your General Engineering Contractor License is waiting for you.

We’re here to help.

Enroll In Our School

If you live outside the area we serve (primarily southern California) you can get your contractors license online by enrolling in our online program. You’ll be able to learn from home. At your own pace.

You’ll be provided with a combination of online as well as physical materials (books — which will be shipped to your home). Our material is so good that we 100% guarantee you’ll pass the state exams if you go through our program.

What are you waiting for?

We offer a pass test guarantee. We’ve been around for nearly a decade, have graduated thousands of students. And look forward to helping you get your Contractors License. Enrolling is easy. And secure — through Paypal, the most trusted payment processor in the world. So that’s good.

According to the Business & Professions Code found on the Contractor State Licensing Board website a general engineering contractor does the following:

Business & Professions Code
Division 3, Chapter 9. Contractors, Article 4. Classifications

7056. A general engineering contractor is a contractor whose principal contracting business is in connection with fixed works requiring specialized engineering knowledge and skill, including the following divisions or subjects: irrigation, drainage, water power, water supply, flood control, inland waterways, harbors, docks and wharves, shipyards and ports, dams and hydroelectric projects, levees, river control and reclamation works, railroads, highways, streets and roads, tunnels, airports and airways, sewers and sewage disposal plants and systems, waste reduction plants, bridges, overpasses, underpasses and other similar works, pipelines and other systems for the transmission of petroleum and other liquid or gaseous substances, parks, playgrounds and other recreational works, refineries, chemical plants and similar industrial plants requiring specialized engineering knowledge and skill, powerhouses, power plants and other utility plants and installations, mines and metallurgical plants, land leveling and earth moving projects, excavating, grading, trenching, paving and surfacing work and cement and concrete works in connection with the above mentioned fixed works.