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Getting licensed as a social worker in Georgia

Compact member

Georgia Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists, read .

Your first license

Licensed Master Social Worker (accrues LCSW hours)

LMSW

Exam required before the license

The ASWB Masters exam is required before the license.

Known fees

Fees the Georgia Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists publishes for the LMSW
LMSW applicationNot checked yet
ASWB Masters examination$230
Known total$230

Plus 1 fee this board does not publish an amount for.

What else it takes

Supervised hours
3,000 hours, 120 supervision
ASWB exam level
Masters
Licensure compact
Member jurisdiction
Last checked

The ladder

Georgia has 2 rungs. 2 of them need an ASWB exam.

  1. masters

    LMSW

    ASWB Masters

    Licensed Master Social Worker (accrues LCSW hours). Practice is supervised at this rung.

  2. clinical

    LCSW

    ASWB Clinical

    Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

Requirements change

Nothing on our law calendar changes Georgia's exam requirement today. The change that does touch you is national: ASWB launched the 2026 exams on August 3, 2026 with three content areas and 122 items, and held fees at $230 Masters and $260 Clinical. ASWB's announcement.

Law calendar read . If Georgia moves, this page moves with it.

Sources

We read the board's own pages. Nothing here is a guess.

SWTPA is not affiliated with any state board or with ASWB. Requirements change; the board's page is the source of record. This record is also available as JSON.

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