Students with medical contraindications must submit a completed Request for Medical Exemption Form

Students with a religious affiliation that prevents them from getting immunizations must submit a completed Request for Religious Exemption Form

Acceptable documents include:

• a document signed by a health care provider that indicates the names of vaccines and the dates you received them, OR
• a copy of your immunization records from your previous school on the school’s letterhead,
• lab results showing your immunity.
• State computer generated printouts of previous vaccines will be accepted without a physician signature.

Once we receive your information our staff will review your records. Please allow 3 weeks for processing. Once we verify that you have met all the immunization requirements, you will receive a secure message through the patient portal indicating that you are compliant. If you are missing any required vaccines, the secure message will indicate that you are non-compliant and will include instructions. You can monitor your status on the patient portal.

You can contact your pediatrician’s office, your high school, your previous college, etc. and ask if they have your records. 

If you cannot obtain records, please make arrangements to receive the vaccines again OR provide serology results that show immunity.

Students requesting an exemption for a non-medical reason must write a letter explaining their objection in detail. 

Any student who is granted an exemption from required immunizations will be excluded from campus in the event of an outbreak. The University does not refund any tuition or fees to students who are unable to attend or complete classes or coursework due to exclusion from campus for lack of immunizations.  Further, students who receive exemptions are required to release and hold harmless the University and its trustees, officers, agents, servants and employees from any liability incurred or sustained by the University which arises out of the University's consideration of, or ultimate decision to grant, an exemption request.

Students who are interested in residing in Xavier University of LA on or off-campus residential halls must complete all required immunizations before moving in. No exemptions are allowed. No Exceptions.

Students enrolled in Online Programs are not required to meet immunization requirements.

Louisiana law (R.S. 17:170 - Schools of Higher Learning) requires proof of dates of immunization against measles, mumps, rubella, and tetanus-diphtheria for all first-time students born on or after January 1, 1957, and for reentering students (born on or after January 1, 1957) who have been out of school for one semester or longer. The following guidelines are presented for the purpose of meeting the established recommendations for control of vaccine-preventable diseases, as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to the United States Public Health Service (ACIP), and the American College Health Association (ACHA). In addition, current Louisiana legislation now mandates meningitis vaccination for persons being admitted to a postsecondary education institution for the Fall 2006 semester and thereafter.

You may obtain immunization records at any time. The fastest, easiest way is to log into the Patient Portal, click on the “Immunization” section and print your own copy or you may visit Student Health Services in person or fax the Medical Release form to SHS (504) 520-7962 to request a copy.  All request will be fulfilled within 72 hours.

The information is on the website: Immunization Requirements