What Colleges Require the COVID-19 Vaccine?
Editor & Writer
Editor & Writer
Editor & Writer
Editor & Writer
The likelihood of your school requiring the COVID-19 vaccine has decreased significantly for the next school year.
President Joe Biden signed a bill in April that immediately ended the COVID-19 national emergency and ended the public health emergency on May 11, 2023.
Many colleges announced the end of their COVID-19 vaccine requirements days after Biden signed the bill. More colleges ended their vaccine mandates around May 11 and others are set to expire in July.
"Our response to the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, remains a public health priority, but thanks to the Administration's whole of government approach to combatting the virus, we are in a better place in our response than we were three years ago, and we can transition away from the emergency phase," the Department of Health and Human Services wrote.
BestColleges found a variety of university responses to handling the now-endemic COVID-19 disease. Some have chosen to keep their vaccine requirements and treat them like regular vaccination requirements like measles, mumps, and rubella.
Other colleges and universities have either entirely removed COVID-19 resource websites or haven't updated them since early 2022.
Check your school's website to learn about your school's COVID-19 vaccine requirements. You can also review our full list below, which includes colleges requiring the COVID-19 vaccine for on-campus, residential students.
A Full List of Colleges Requiring the COVID-19 Vaccine
Last Updated: June 1, 2023, at 2:43 P.M. EST
States A-G
ALABAMA | ALASKA | ARIZONA | ARKANSAS | CALIFORNIA | COLORADO | CONNECTICUT | DELAWARE | DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | FLORIDA | GEORGIA
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
- Diné College
- Prescott College
Arkansas
- Arkansas Baptist College
California
- American Jewish University
- Berkeley City College
- California College of the Arts
- California Instititute of the Arts
- California Institute of Integral Studies
- California Institute of Technology
- California Jazz Conservatory
- Claremont Graduate University
- College of Alameda
- Dominican University of California
- Harvey Mudd College
- Holy Names University
- Laney College
- Menlo College
- Merritt College
- Occidental College
- Otis College of Art and Design
- Pepperdine University
- Pitzer College
- Porterville College
- Saint Mary's College of California
- Samuel Merritt University
- Santa Clara University
- Scripps College
- Soka University of America
- Southern California Institute of Architecture
- University of California system
- Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz
- University of Redlands
- University of San Francisco
- University of the Pacific
- University of the West
- Western University of Health Sciences
- Whittier College
Colorado
- Rocky Vista University
- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Connecticut
- Connecticut College
- Mitchell College
- Post University
- Wesleyan University
Delaware
- Delaware State University
District of Columbia
- Gallaudet University
- Trinity Washington University
Florida
Georgia
- Agnes Scott College
- Morehouse College
- Morris Brown College
- Oglethorpe University
- Spelman College
States H-M
HAWAII | IDAHO | ILLINOIS | INDIANA | IOWA | KANSAS | KENTUCKY | LOUISIANA | MAINE | MARYLAND | MASSACHUSETTS | MICHIGAN | MINNESOTA | MISSISSIPPI | MISSOURI | MONTANA
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
- Bradley University
- Columbia College Chicago
- Dominican University
- Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Lake Forest College
- Lake Forest Graduate School of Management
- Methodist College
- Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
- Rush University
- Saint Augustine College
- Southeastern Illinois College
- Spertus College
Indiana
- DePauw University
- Goshen College
- University of Indianapolis
- Valparaiso University
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
- Simmons College of Kentucky
Louisiana
- Southern University system
- Southern University and A&M College, New Orleans, Shreveport, Law Center
- Tulane University
Maine
- College of the Atlantic
- Unity College
Maryland
- Goucher College
- Johns Hopkins University
- St. John's College
Massachusetts
- Anna Maria College
- Brandeis University
- Endicott College
- Framingham State University
- Hampshire College
- Harvard University
- Lasell University
- Lesley University
- Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
- New England Conservatory of Music
- New England Law | Boston
- Smith College
- Wellesley College
- Westfield State University
Michigan
- Michigan School of Psychology
- University of Michigan system
- Ann Arbor, Dearborn, Flint
- Wayne State University *Only for students in university housing
Minnesota
- Augsburg University
- Hamline University
- Macalester College
- Minneapolis College of Art and Design
- Mitchell Hamline School of Law
- University of Minnesota
- Crookston, Duluth, Morris, Rochester, Twin Cities
Mississippi
Missouri
- Washington University in St. Louis
- William Jewell College
Montana
States N-S
NEBRASKA | NEVADA | NEW HAMPSHIRE | NEW JERSEY | NEW MEXICO | NEW YORK | NORTH CAROLINA | NORTH DAKOTA | OHIO | OKLAHOMA | OREGON | PENNSYLVANIA | RHODE ISLAND | SOUTH CAROLINA | SOUTH DAKOTA
Nebraska
- University of Nebraska Medical Center
Nevada
- Touro University Nevada
New Hampshire
- Franklin Pierce University
New Jersey
- Felician University
- Rutgers University
- Camden, Brunswick, Newark
- Stockton University
New Mexico
New York
- Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
- Albany Law School
- Bank Street College of Education
- Bard College
- Colgate University
- College of Mount Saint Vincent
- Hamilton College
- Hilbert College
- Hobart William Smith Colleges
- Jewish Theological Seminary of America
- Le Moyne College *PA/OT/Nursing students only
- Manhattan College
- Maria College
- Marymount Manhattan College
- Russell Sage College
- St. Bonaventure University
- The Juilliard School
- The New School
- Wells College
North Carolina
- Bennett College
- Johnson & Wales University-Charlotte
- Salem College
- Shaw University
North Dakota
Ohio
- Antioch College
- Denison University
- Kenyon College
- Methodist Theological School in Ohio
- Oberlin College and Conservatory
- Ohio Wesleyan University
- The College of Wooster
- University of Toledo
Oklahoma
Oregon
- Reed College
Pennsylvania
- Allegheny College
- Bryn Athyn College of the New Church
- Bryn Mawr College
- Bucknell University
- Cabrini University
- Chestnut Hill College
- Gwynedd Mercy University
- Haverford College
- Immaculata University
- La Salle University
- Moore College of Art and Design
- Neumann University
- Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Robert Morris University
- Salus University
- Seton Hill University
- Swarthmore College
- University of Pittsburgh
- Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown, Pittsburgh Campus, Titusville
- Widener University
- Williamson College of the Trades
Rhode Island
- Community College of Rhode Island
- Johnson & Wales University-Providence
- Rhode Island College
- Rhode Island School of Design
South Carolina
- Wofford College
- Benedict College
South Dakota
States T-Z
TENNESSEE | TEXAS | UTAH | VERMONT | VIRGINIA | WASHINGTON | WEST VIRGINIA | WISCONSIN | WYOMING
Tennessee
- American Baptist College
Texas
- Rice University
- Seminary of the Southwest
- Southwestern University
- St. Edward's University
Utah
Vermont
- Bennington College
- Landmark College
- Vermont Law School
- Vermont State Colleges system
- Castleton University, Northern Vermont University, Vermont Technical College
Virginia
- Norfolk State University
- Sweet Briar College
Washington
- Bastyr University
- Bellevue College
- Evergreen State College
- Pacific Lutheran University
- Pacific Northwest University
- Whitman College
West Virginia
Wisconsin
- Beloit College
- Lawrence University
Wyoming
Note that this list covers COVID-19 vaccine requirements for 2023-2024 on-campus or residential students and does not specify individual university policies such as vaccine exemptions. Some colleges may require all students, regardless of their residential status, to get vaccinated. Faculty and staff vaccine requirements may be different from the residential student requirements listed above.
Don't see your school on this list? Reach out to contact@support.bestcolleges.com if your college or university still requires the COVID-19 vaccine. Please include the relevant vaccine page link or email.
Editor's Note: This article is updated regularly as new information becomes available. Reporting and data collection for this piece has been provided by Jessica Bryant, Anne Dennon, Darlene Earnest, Reece Johnson, Hannah Muniz, Rachel Schneider, Evan Castillo, Chloe Appleby, and Jordan Stewart-Rozema.
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