Every student entering a South Carolina college or university is required to provide an immunization record. All students attending Coastal Carolina University are required to meet University Immunization Requirements prior to registration; a copy of your immunization record must be provided to student health services prior to your enrollment. Please complete the Health History/Immunization Formor providean immunization record on a health care providers stationary that has been signed and verified by a physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner, or stamped by the health care facility and contain the month, day and year vaccine was given. All immunization and tuberculin skin test documents must be submitted in English. If you have any questions regarding immunization requirements, please call Student Health Services at (843) 349-6543 or fax immunization records to (843) 349-6546.
Required Immunizations:
M.M.R. (Measles, Mumps, Rubella)
(2 doses required at least 28 days apart for students born 1957 or later and all health sciences students).
dose given at age 12 months or later.
dose given at least 28 days after first dose.
Tuberculin skin test (PPD or Mantoux) within the past year (international students from high risk countries). If there is a history of a positive skin test, a chest X-ray is required within the past year.
Recommended Immunizations:
Tetanus-Diphtheria-Pertussis (Tdap) (Td or Tdap within last 10 years)
Tuberculin skin test (PPD)(Within 6 mo. prior to beginning of class)
Hepatitis A (2 doses)
Hepatitis B (3 doses)
Varicella (chicken pox) (immunization or disease)
Meningitis Vaccine (Strongly recommended by the American College Health Association)
Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine (HPV) (3 doses)
