Is a high school course with personal finance concepts required to be taken as a graduation requirement? Yes, Utah requires all high school students to take a half-year general financial literacy course as a graduation requirement. See: Utah Board of Education Graduation Requirements and Utah Board of Education Rule for Financial Literacy.
Utah has very robust and specific competency-based standards that are applicable to the mandated course. See: Utah Financial Literacy Standards.
The Utah State Office of Education has also created a Utah Educator Website exclusively dedicated to financial literacy. In 2014, Utah passed a law that added requirements to its preexisting high school education mandate. As a result of this law, Utah is clearly the leader in the nation in high school personal finance education. The new law requires that
Utah requires students to take a standardized end-of-course personal finance exam that was created by a third-party provider and is administered by the state.