Getting licensed as a social worker in New Jersey
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Get your New Jersey licensing checklist
Your board, the portal you apply in, the fees, the supervised hours, and the order to do them in.
Your first license
Licensed Social Worker
LSWExam required before the license
The ASWB Masters exam is required before the license.
Known fees
| Application fee | $75 |
|---|---|
| Standard (non-clinical) license fee, first year of biennial period | $120 |
| Standard (non-clinical) license fee, second year of biennial period | $60 |
| ASWB Masters examination | Not checked yet |
| Known total | $255 |
Plus 1 fee this board does not publish an amount for.
What else it takes
- Supervised hours
- 3,000 hours, 1,920 client contact, 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
Earn an MSW (or DSW) from a CSWE-accredited program, or a program in CSWE candidacy. Register for and pass the ASWB Masters examination (final-semester students may sit early).
The ladder
New Jersey has 2 rungs. 2 need an ASWB exam.
masters
LSW
ASWB Masters
Licensed Social Worker.
clinical
LCSW
ASWB Clinical
Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
Requirements change
Nothing on our law calendar changes New Jersey'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 Jersey moves, this page moves with it.
Already passed? Track your supervised hours toward your clinical license.
New Jersey asks for 3,000 hours of supervised experience. The board sets no total for supervision hours.
Checked against the published rule. Last checked September 6, 2026.
Join the Hours waitlistPrograms in New Jersey
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.
Centenary University
New Jersey
- 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.
Fairleigh Dickinson University
New Jersey
- Clinical first-time
- No exams reportednational 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- 50% of 24national 73.9%
No Clinical first-time exams in the 2025 report for this school.
Georgian Court University
New Jersey
- 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.
Kean University
New Jersey
- Clinical first-time
- 76.2% of 21national 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- 25.6% of 39national 73.9%
76.2% of Clinical first-timers from here passed in 2025. National rate 75.7%.
Monmouth University
New Jersey
- Clinical first-time
- 76.7% of 73national 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- 76.9% of 52national 73.9%
76.7% of Clinical first-timers from here passed in 2025. National rate 75.7%.
Montclair State University
New Jersey
- Clinical first-time
- 76.5% of 17national 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- 47.6% of 63national 73.9%
76.5% of Clinical first-timers from here passed in 2025. National rate 75.7%.
Ramapo College
New Jersey
- Clinical first-time
- 84.8% of 33national 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- 73.9% of 69national 73.9%
84.8% of Clinical first-timers from here passed in 2025. National rate 75.7%.
Rutgers - Camden
New Jersey
- Clinical first-time
- 67.5% of 40national 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- 62.5% of 24national 73.9%
67.5% of Clinical first-timers from here passed in 2025. National rate 75.7%.
Rutgers - Mays Landing
New Jersey
- 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.
Rutgers - New Brunswick
New Jersey
- Clinical first-time
- 84.6% of 364national 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- 75.7% of 445national 73.9%
84.6% of Clinical first-timers from here passed in 2025. National rate 75.7%.
Rutgers - Newark
New Jersey
- Clinical first-time
- 60.8% of 51national 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- 66.7% of 33national 73.9%
60.8% of Clinical first-timers from here passed in 2025. National rate 75.7%.
Rutgers - Online
New Jersey
- Clinical first-time
- Too few to rate so farnational 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- 77.1% of 48national 73.9%
Too few first-time Clinical exams in 2025 to rate so far.
Sources
We read the board's own pages. Nothing here is a guess.
- New Jersey State Board of Social Work Examiners · LSW applicant resourceswww.njconsumeraffairs.gov · Last checked
- N.J.A.C. 13:44G-4.2 - Eligibility requirements; LSWwww.law.cornell.edu · Last checked
- N.J.A.C. 13:44G-4.5 - Endorsementwww.law.cornell.edu · Last checked
- N.J.A.C. 13:44G-14.1 - Feeswww.law.cornell.edu · Last checked
- N.J.S.A. 45:15BB - Social Workers' Licensing Act of 1991 (cross-referenced within regulation text; full statute text not independently fetched)law.justia.com · Last checked
- LSW fees · ASWB Masters examinationwww.aswb.org · Last checked
- Social Work Licensure Compact · member jurisdictionsswcompact.org · Last checked
- N.J.A.C. 13:44G-4.1 - Eligibility requirements; LCSWwww.law.cornell.edu · Last checked
- N.J.A.C. 13:44G-8.1 - Clinical supervisionwww.law.cornell.edu · Last checked
- NJ ASWB Clinical Level Examination Preapproval application (fee, Incapsula-blocked, not directly fetched)www.njconsumeraffairs.gov · Last checked
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