Social Work Test Prep Academy

Getting licensed as a social worker in Virginia

Compact member

Virginia Board of Social Work, read .

Your first license

Licensed Master's Social Worker

LMSW

Exam required before the license

The ASWB Masters exam is required before the license.

Known fees

Fees the Virginia Board of Social Work publishes for the LMSW
LMSW application processing$115
ASWB Masters examination$230
Known total$345

What else it takes

Supervised hours
Not checked yet
ASWB exam level
Masters
Licensure compact
Member jurisdiction
Last checked
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Next step

Meet Virginia LMSW education requirements. Apply to the Virginia Board of Social Work.

The ladder

Virginia has 4 rungs. 3 of them need an ASWB exam.

  1. bachelors

    LBSW

    ASWB Bachelors

    Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker.

  2. masters

    LMSW

    ASWB Masters

    Licensed Master's Social Worker.

  3. supervisee

    Supervisee in Social Work

    No ASWB exam

    Registered supervisee accruing LCSW hours. Practice is supervised at this rung.

  4. clinical

    LCSW

    ASWB Clinical

    Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

Requirements change

Nothing on our law calendar changes Virginia'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 Virginia 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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