Licensing

 

Welcome to Licensing!

The University of Utah's College of Education is the licensing entity for any educator license that needs to be completed through the Utah State Board of Education (USBE). We complete recommendations for those completing initial licenses, second licenses, and endorsement additions to current licenses for the state of Utah.

College of Education Licensing includes:

Educational Leadership (ELP K-12 Administration)

Teacher Education (Elementary, K-3 and K-8, and Secondary including Music and Kinesiology)

Special Education

School Counseling

School Psychology

Social Work

Speech and Language Pathology (also includes Audiology)

In all, we recommend 10 areas for licensure!

Timeline

Students should be aware that license recommendations are not instantaneous. They do require processing on several levels and can take several weeks to complete as they require your participation, advisors to review what you submit and ensure that you meet requirements, the License Coordinator to verify information in both University systems and USIMS and finally the USBE to issue the license.

Additionally, students are reminded that summer is the time of the year that most licenses are processed. Therefore, students are encouraged to be patient as this process is taking place.

FAQ

Degree's posting is a University process that we can't speed up for you. It may be that some grades weren't available when the Registrar's Office was checking your graduation application for completion.

A reminder that it may take 4-6 weeks for a degree to post. Which means the recommendation process for your advisor may not start until the degree posts.

License Recommendation Application

Please ensure that you have the following completed for your license application. This is required of all students, no matter the license being requested.

  1. Completed and have access to your USIMS account: https://uite.utah.edu/students/background-check/.
  2. Completed your USBE Background Check: https://uite.utah.edu/students/background-check/.
  3. Completed your Educator Ethics Review found on your USIMS account.
  4. Have any and all test results as required, please see your Advisor for information on test requirements.