South Carolina PT and PTA license renewal and continuing education
The South Carolina Board of Physical Therapy Examiners states: “Every licensed physical therapist and physical therapist assistant shall earn 3.0 CEUs or thirty (30) hours of acceptable continuing education credit per biennium year, which must include 15 hours of certified activities, which must include three hours of ethics or professionalism, and the remainder 15 hours through any combination of certified activities and/or approved activities.”
Quoted from official pages checked November 12, 2026. Confirm current requirements, fees, and dates on those sites. This page is not legal advice and does not guarantee eligibility, certification, or licensure.
Source read on November 12, 2026: the board’s Renewal page on the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation site. It covers physical therapists and physical therapist assistants.
Cycle
Renewal is biennial. The page’s renewal-dates table shows PT and PTA licenses renewing at the end of even-numbered years (paraphrased). It states: “Failure to renew a license prior to the deadline, will result in a lapsed license.”
Tracking
“Licensees are responsible for obtaining certificates of completion and uploading the certificates to their CE Broker account prior to renewing.” Audit forms are submitted through the board’s document submission system (paraphrased).
Records
The page read does not set a retention period or name a carryover allowance. It links to the board’s regulations, which were not read for this page.
What this page does not do
It covers the state physical therapy license only, and only what the official page or pages named above say. It does not list fees and does not replace the board’s own instructions. Rules change; check the board before you renew.