Getting licensed as a social worker in New Hampshire

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Your first license

Conditional license on a board-approved supervisory agreement (the credential a New Hampshire MSW graduate holds while LICSW hours accrue; up to 2 years, one renewal)

Conditional LICSW

Exam comes after the first credential

No exam to register. The Clinical exam comes after your hours.

Known fees

Fees the New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice, Office of Professional Licensure and Certification publishes for the Conditional LICSW
License application processing and licensing, initial or initial conditional, 2-year license (Plc 1002.29)$297
Professional Health Program (PHP) fee, mandatory, paid at licensing (with the $297, the board's $325 application fee)$28
Known total$325

What else it takes

Supervised hours
3,000 hours, 100 supervision, for the LICSW
ASWB exam level
None for this credential
Licensure compact
Member jurisdictionMultistate licenses are not yet being issued. Last checked against the compact's own site.
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Next step

Hold a master's or doctoral degree in social work or social welfare from a CSWE-approved program (RSA 330-A:18-d, I(a)(1)). Obtain a board-approved supervisory agreement documenting intent to pursue licensure as a clinical social worker (RSA 330-A:18-d, I(a)(2)).

The ladder

New Hampshire has 3 rungs. 2 need an ASWB exam.

  1. bachelors

    LSW

    ASWB Bachelors

    Licensed Social Worker (bachelor's degree plus 4,000 supervised hours; practices under clinical supervision for the first 2 years of licensure). Practice is supervised at this rung.

  2. supervisee

    Conditional LICSW

    No ASWB exam

    Conditional license on a board-approved supervisory agreement (the credential a New Hampshire MSW graduate holds while LICSW hours accrue; up to 2 years, one renewal). Practice is supervised at this rung.

  3. clinical

    LICSW

    ASWB Clinical

    Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (New Hampshire has no non-clinical master's license).

Requirements change

Nothing on our law calendar changes New Hampshire'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 New Hampshire moves, this page moves with it.

Already passed? Track your supervised hours toward your clinical license.

New Hampshire asks for 3,000 hours of supervised experience and 100 hours of supervision.

Checked against the published rule. Last checked September 27, 2026.

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Programs in New Hampshire

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.

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Sources

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

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