TB Testing

To protect students' health and safety and to ensure the continuity of students' education, MSU now requires all newly entering undergraduate and graduate international students to be tested for tuberculosis (TB) Failure to comply with the TB testing and the immunization reporting requirements will affect your ability to register and enroll. For information on TB, go to the World Health Organization's Fact Sheet on the disease. To learn more about TB testing, see the National Library of Medicine's Web site.

When you check in at the Office for International Students and Scholars (also required), you will be given a date, time and location for your TB testing and reading to occur soon after you arrive. You must attend both the TB testing and TB reading sessions. MSU will provide this testing to you free of charge, as long as you attend one of the designated group sessions. Otherwise, you will have to pay for your own TB testing.

A few students who have a positive TB skin test will need further evaluation and possibly treatment. Most insurance policies will cover some or all of these costs. The University will help you arrange for any necessary follow-up testing or treatment. We want to reassure you that your immigration status will not be affected by a positive test.

The University encourages all international students to bring copies of their immunization records and previous TB testing results with them to the U.S. Having these records with you will help save time.

Please e-mail the Office of the University Physician at uphys@msu.edu with questions. We want your experience here to be healthy and educationally productive. Reviewing and updating your immunizations and participating in TB testing will not only make your time here safer, but will benefit you the rest of your life.