Immunizations

Immunization requirements and recommendations

Cornell College requires all incoming students to have proof of:

  • one Quadrivalent Meningitis Vaccine (A,C, Y, W-135) on or after the student's 16th birthday
  • two MMR vaccines

Without documented proof of proper Meningitis and MMR vaccination, a student's registration will be cancelled.

No other immunizations are required for admittance; however, the American College Health Association strongly recommends that students consider the following vaccines:

  • COVID-19 - (2 doses of Pfizer or Moderna, 1 dose of Johnson and Johnson)
  • Serogroup B Meningococcal Vaccine - (MenB4-C, 2 doses, or MenB-FHbp, 3 doses)
  • Tetanus, Diptheria, Pertussis, Vaccine - primary series given in childhood (DT, DTaP, DTP, or TD), booster dose of Tdap given age 11-18, Td/Tdap every 10 years after that
  • Chicken Pox (Varicella) - 2 doses
  • Influenza vaccine yearly

Additional vaccines to consider are: 

  • HPV - series of 3
  • Hepatitis A - series of 2

Questions about student health services?

Stop in our office, call 319.895.4292 or email student_health@cornellcollege.edu.