Immunizations & Vaccines

Help ensure a healthy College of Charleston campus with these required immunizations and vaccines: MMR, Meningitis & TDap

Welcome to the Cougar Family! The College of Charleston requires three vaccines for the safety of our campus community:

  • Measles, Mumps, Rubella
    - Dose 1 must be given at first birthday or after and Dose 2 must be at least 28 days later
    - This requirement only applies to students born after 1956

  • Quadrivalent Meningitis
    - Administered at 16 years of age or after
    - Meningitis Serogroup B is not required
    - Also known as MCV4, Menactra, Menveo or Prenbaya
    - Students over the age of 24 are not required to get this vaccine if they do not already have one

  • TDAP (Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis)
    - Must be given within the last 10 years

CHECKING IMMUNIZATION STATUS AND UPDATING YOUR RECORDS

If you are from South Carolina and have been immunized in this state, any immunizations you have received should be imported over through the state registry interface into your portal.

New Feature!! If you are not from South Carolina, we have a new system where you are can request your out-of-state immunizations to be imported into your portal through Verivax. 

It is the student's responsibility to make sure that immunizations are uploaded correctly and that their status is listed as Compliant.

Log into your student health patient portal at: https://cofc.medicatconnect.com/.

Please follow the steps below to ensure your immunization requirements are complete:

Once in your portal, click the menu bar and select "Immunizations".

If your immunizations did not or cannot automatically be pulled through, you will need to manually enter your immunization dates AND upload records. Please follow the steps below, in order. 

  • Step 1: Enter Individual Immunization Dates for ALL listed required vaccines.
  • Step 2: Click submit button once ALL dates are entered. You will be then be brought to the document upload page to submit your documents so your dates can be verified.
  • Step 3: Upload supporting documents. If you do not finish Step 3, you will lose your submitted information.
    • Locate and choose the file that contains your Immunization Record.
    • You can only upload one file at a time. If you have additional pages or files to upload to support your dates, go back to the Upload Document page and upload each file until all supporting documentation has been uploaded. 
    • Once your document is uploaded, you will see at the bottom of the upload page

Once you have completed all of the above steps, a clinician at Student Health Services will review your dates and documents. Please allow at least 48 hours for processing. Once reviewed you will receive a Message in your portal confirming receipt and whether you are Complaint or Not Compliant. 

We are NOT able to accept faxed, mailed, emailed or hand delivered copies of immunization records.

Policies & Waiver

Can’t find your records? Try the following resources:
Log into your student health portal

Recommended Immunizations

Vaccine preventable diseases are still occurring on college campuses throughout the country.  The staff at Student Health Services strongly urges students and families to give careful thought to the following recommendations.  These recommendations are taken from the American College Health Association (ACHA) Vaccine Preventable Diseases Committee, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and Travax. You can purchase vaccines through the Marketplace link.

Notification of Risk

SC STATE LAW SECTION 59-101-290. 

Notification of risk of contracting certain diseases if living on-campus.


(A) A public institution of higher learning shall notify incoming students, or the parent or guardian of an incoming student under the age of eighteen, of the risk of contracting meningococcal disease and Hepatitis B if living in on-campus student housing.

(B) A public institution of higher learning shall include vaccination against meningococcal disease and Hepatitis B as recommended immunization in health and medical information provided to students or prospective students and parents or guardians.

(C) A private institution of higher learning may elect to be governed by this section and at any time may, in its sole discretion, remove itself from such governance.

HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 317, Section 1.