Getting licensed as a social worker in Utah

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Your first license

Certified Social Worker (no exam, no hours; accrues LCSW hours under supervision)

CSW

Exam comes after the first credential

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

Known fees

Fees the Utah Division of Professional Licensing (DOPL), Social Work publishes for the CSW
CSW application fee$120
Known total$120

What else it takes

Supervised hours
3,000 hours, 1,200 client contact, 100 supervision, for the LCSW
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

Complete a master's degree in a CSWE-accredited (or CASWE-accredited) social work program, or an approved doctoral degree with a clinical social work concentration and practicum (Utah Code 58-60-205(2)(c)). Submit the DOPL application with the fee and certified transcripts (58-60-205(2)(a) to (c)).

The ladder

Utah has 3 rungs. 1 needs an ASWB exam.

  1. bachelors

    SSW

    No ASWB exam

    Social Service Worker (no exam; entry-level services under general supervision of a mental health therapist). Practice is supervised at this rung.

  2. masters

    CSW

    No ASWB exam

    Certified Social Worker (no exam, no hours; accrues LCSW hours under supervision). Practice is supervised at this rung.

  3. clinical

    LCSW

    ASWB Clinical

    Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

Requirements change

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

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Utah 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 Utah

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.

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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