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Final two colleges, Reed and Bryn Mawr, say they no longer will require students to be vaccinated for COVID-19

Confirmed this week, all colleges and universities in the United States have dropped their COVID-19 vaccine mandates following President Donald Trump’s executive order on the issue, according to a group tracking the mandates.

The final two colleges with mandates, as reported by No College Mandates, confirmed this week that they are ending the vaccination requirement.

Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and Reed College in Oregon were the last two on the list.

No College Mandates founder Lucia Sinatra told The College Fix that Bryn Mawr confirmed to her that its mandate is over. According to the representative from the college, the information will be updated on its website by May, she said.

“… but it is frustrating Bryn Mawr will not updated their pages to immediately reflect this,” Sinatra told The Fix in an email Wednesday. “We believe that this misleads students who have been recently accepted into thinking the C19 vaccine is still a requirement.”

Meanwhile, Reed College also confirmed that its mandate is over.

“Reed College’s faculty voted on Monday, March 10, to remove the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for students. Students, faculty, and staff are all still highly encouraged to be vaccinated,” college spokesperson Sheena McFarland told The Fix via email Tuesday.

In February, 12 other higher education institutions also dropped their vaccine mandates, according to No College Mandates’ list.

The list only included university-wide mandates. Some higher education institutions still require students in health care careers to be vaccinated, according to the group.

This is what the end looks like but don’t be fooled as most healthcare students are still required to take C19 vaccines to complete programs. @SecKennedy pic.twitter.com/skoZ6fIj8V

— No College Mandates (@NCM4Ever) March 13, 2025

“Covid-19 vaccine mandates on healthy young adults were never based on scientific data or sound reasoning,” Sinatra wrote recently at the Brownstone Institute. Sinatra shared the article with The Fix when asked about Trump’s executive order.

“These policies coerced … students to choose between abandonment of their college programs and dreams for the future or complying with decisions over bodily autonomy made by the ‘experts,’” she wrote.

President Trump signed an executive order Feb. 15 that states that mandating students to receive the COVID-19 vaccination “usurp[s] parental authority and burden[s] students of many faiths.”

The main statement of the order reads as follows: “It is the policy of my Administration that discretionary Federal funds should not be used to directly or indirectly support or subsidize an educational service agency, State educational agency, local educational agency, elementary school, secondary school, or institution of higher education that requires students to have received a Covid-19 vaccination to attend any in-person education program.”

The executive order instructs the Department of Health and Human Services, manned by Secretary Robert Kennedy, to create a directive on the matter, which all federally-funded education institutions in the country will have to comply with.

The Fix contacted the HHS media relations office via email recently with questions about the directive, including any potential exceptions that could be made for specific groups of people, such as students in health care career paths, but the office did not respond.

Sinatra praised the order, writing, “With one stroke of his pen, President Trump accomplished what we have been fighting for the last 4 years – an end to college and university Covid-19 vaccine mandates.”

Since Sinatra began No College Mandates in 2020, the group has provided a place for like-minded students and parents to voice their concerns with letter campaigns and other resources on its website. It also exposed hundreds of higher education institutions in the United States that required students and staff to receive the COVID-19 vaccinations.

Sinatra wrote, “It is with deep gratitude to President Trump and his team for keeping his promise and ending all federal funding to colleges and universities that continue these unnecessary and dangerous Covid-19 vaccine policies.

“There was zero science or reasoning to support them, and this new executive order might just prevent similar dictates from ever happening again,” she wrote.

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IMAGE CAPTION AND CREDIT: Individuals protest mandatory COVID-19 vaccines. Drazen Zigic/Shutterstock

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