Getting licensed as a social worker in Mississippi
Checked against the Mississippi Board of Examiners for Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists on .
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Your board, the portal you apply in, the fees, the supervised hours, and the order to do them in.
Your first license
Licensed Master Social Worker (may enter post-masters supervision toward LCSW under a Board-approved LCSW supervisor)
LMSWExam required before the license
The ASWB Masters exam is required before the license.
Known fees
| Application fee | $27 |
|---|---|
| Initial license fee (LMSW & LCSW) | $110 |
| ASWB Masters examination | $230 |
| Known total | $367 |
What else it takes
- Supervised hours
- 1,000 face-to-face hours, 100 supervision, for the LCSW
- ASWB exam level
- Masters
- Licensure compact
- Member jurisdictionMultistate licenses are not yet being issued. Last checked against the compact's own site.
- Last checked
Next step
Hold a master's or doctoral degree in social work from a CSWE-accredited program. Pass the ASWB Masters examination.
The ladder
Mississippi has 3 rungs. 3 need an ASWB exam.
bachelors
LSW
ASWB exam, level not confirmed
Licensed Social Worker.
masters
LMSW
ASWB Masters
Licensed Master Social Worker (may enter post-masters supervision toward LCSW under a Board-approved LCSW supervisor). Practice is supervised at this rung.
clinical
LCSW
ASWB Clinical
Licensed Certified Social Worker (only those who complete clinical supervision and pass the ASWB Clinical exam may use the title 'clinical social worker').
Requirements change
Nothing on our law calendar changes Mississippi'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 Mississippi moves, this page moves with it.
Already passed? Track your supervised hours toward your clinical license.
Mississippi asks for 100 hours of supervision. The board sets no total for experience hours.
Checked against the published rule. Last checked September 27, 2026.
Join the Hours waitlistPrograms in Mississippi
How first-timers from each accredited program here did on the ASWB exam. A rate built on fewer than 10 first-time exams is one or two people, so those programs show how close they are to that floor instead of a percent. Source: ASWB, 2025 report.
Alcorn State University
Mississippi
- Clinical first-time
- No exams reportednational 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- No exams reportednational 73.9%
No Clinical first-time exams in the 2025 report for this school.
Belhaven University
Mississippi
- Clinical first-time
- No exams reportednational 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- No exams reportednational 73.9%
No Clinical first-time exams in the 2025 report for this school.
Delta State University
Mississippi
- Clinical first-time
- No exams reportednational 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- Too few to rate so farnational 73.9%
No Clinical first-time exams in the 2025 report for this school.
Jackson State University
Mississippi
- Clinical first-time
- 50% of 36national 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- 20% of 40national 73.9%
50% of Clinical first-timers from here passed in 2025. National rate 75.7%.
Mississippi College
Mississippi
- Clinical first-time
- Too few to rate so farnational 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- No exams reportednational 73.9%
Too few first-time Clinical exams in 2025 to rate so far.
Mississippi State University - Meridian
Mississippi
- Clinical first-time
- No exams reportednational 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- No exams reportednational 73.9%
No Clinical first-time exams in the 2025 report for this school.
Mississippi State University - Starkville
Mississippi
- Clinical first-time
- No exams reportednational 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- No exams reportednational 73.9%
No Clinical first-time exams in the 2025 report for this school.
Mississippi Valley State University
Mississippi
- Clinical first-time
- Too few to rate so farnational 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- Too few to rate so farnational 73.9%
Too few first-time Clinical exams in 2025 to rate so far.
Rust College
Mississippi
- Clinical first-time
- No exams reportednational 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- No exams reportednational 73.9%
No Clinical first-time exams in the 2025 report for this school.
University of Mississippi
Mississippi
- Clinical first-time
- 60% of 10national 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- 75.9% of 29national 73.9%
60% of Clinical first-timers from here passed in 2025. National rate 75.7%.
University of Southern Mississippi
Mississippi
- Clinical first-time
- 75.8% of 33national 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- 51.8% of 56national 73.9%
75.8% of Clinical first-timers from here passed in 2025. National rate 75.7%.
Sources
We read the board's own pages. Nothing here is a guess.
- Mississippi Board of Examiners for Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists · LMSW applicant resourceswww.swmft.ms.gov · Last checked
- 30 Miss. Code R. Part 1902 (Rules and Regulations for Social Workers)www.law.cornell.edu · Last checked
- Miss. Code Ann. Title 73, Chapter 53 (Board-hosted Westlaw print, current through the 2015 session)swmft.ms.gov · Last checked
- LMSW fees · Application feewww.law.cornell.edu · Last checked
- LMSW fees · ASWB Masters examinationwww.aswb.org · Last checked
- Social Work Licensure Compact · member jurisdictionsswcompact.org · Last checked
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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