Connecticut massage state board

http://www.ct.gov/dph/cwp/view.asp?a=3121&q=389348
Connecticut Department of Health

Practice Act
http://www.ct.gov/dph/LIB/dph/practitioner_licensing_and_investigations/plis/massagetherapist/MSG_Statute.pdf

An applicant for licensure must meet the eligibility requirements outlined below:



Graduation from a school of massage therapy offering a course of study of not less than five hundred (500) classroom hours with the instructor present, and at the time of the applicant’s graduation was (A) accredited by an agency recognized by the United States Department of Education or by a state board of post-secondary technical trade and business schools; or (B) accredited by the Commission on Massage Therapy Accreditation (COMTA). Please note that on-line instruction is not acceptable towards meeting the 500 classroom hours:



Recent graduates of an approved massage therapy educational programs are eligible for a temporary permit. Please note that a temporary permit is not available to licensees applying from other states or for applicants applying for reinstatement of a lapsed Connecticut license;



Passage of the National Certification Examination for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork.