How the rad tech license rules were read

Every rad tech license answer on this site comes from one record per state, built from the state table of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists and checked against the page of the state agency, read on November 13, 2026. Fees come from the ARRT and Inteleos pages, schools from the IPEDS files.

Search results for a sonographer or rad tech license send you to school directories that ask for your phone number, or to pages that say “all states require a license” or name four states without a source. This site reads the state table of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists and the page of each state agency, the ARRT and ARDMS fee pages and the federal IPEDS school files, and answers for your state: license or not, which agency, what the exams cost, and which schools train there. It sells nothing and passes on no contact details.

1. The state rules

The ASRT page “States That Regulate” gives, for each state and DC and for thirteen modalities, three columns: licensure (“any form of permission granted by state to practice”: license, certificate, permit), standard (education or national credentials required, without a license) and equipment rules. We read the table cell by cell. Then we opened the agency page it names for each state: 37 answered and were read; 14 refused our reader or never answered, and those states rely on the ASRT table alone, as their pages say. No refusal was bypassed. Fees and rules that a state page prints (Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Montana, Ohio, Virginia and others) are quoted with that page as source.

2. The exam fees

ARRT application fees were read on its Application Fees page, and its renewal and continuing education rules on its ongoing requirements page. ARDMS exam fees were read on the exam pages of Inteleos, which runs the ARDMS exams (SPI, Abdomen). Neither body printed its annual renewal amount on a page we could read, so the site does not show it.

3. The programs

Programs are those that reported at least one award in CIP 51.0910 (sonography) or 51.0911 (radiography) as a first major in the IPEDS completions file for July 2023 to June 2024 (C2024_A), joined to the directory (HD2024) and to the 2023-24 charges (IC2023_AY: undergraduate tuition plus required fees, in-state and out-of-state). Puerto Rico is left out. Medians use public schools only, and only those reporting a charge. Hospital programs outside federal student aid do not report to IPEDS. IPEDS is a work of the U.S. government, in the public domain.

4. A worked example

Texas, sonography, two years of study: the checker reads that Texas issues yes, a state certification for radiography and no state license for sonography; the route calculator takes the median public in-state tuition and fees of the state’s sonography schools ($4,080 a year in 2023-24), multiplies it by two and adds the ARDMS SPI and one specialty ($575): $8,735.

5. Limits

• The ASRT table is the work of a professional society, not a law; the agency of your state decides.
• Tuition is a median of 2023-24 charges, without books, housing or clinical travel; your school’s price governs.
• No salary and no medical content: pay depends on the employer, and the site covers licensing only.
• Nothing here is legal advice, and nothing updates by itself: each page shows the date its sources were read.

Corrections: contact page.