One of the last remaining Catholic colleges requiring coronavirus vaccines has dropped its mandate, and the other one appears to have done likewise, under pressure from a threatened loss of federal funding by the Trump administration.

The University of San Francisco, which is Jesuit-run, has eliminated the mandate, a representative told the Register on Tuesday.

“The University of San Francisco no longer requires the COVID-19 vaccine for students,” the university representative said by email. “All campus community members are strongly encouraged to stay up-to-date on vaccinations recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This includes the COVID-19 vaccine, which is proven to be safe and effective in preventing serious illness, hospitalization, and death.”

The university’s statement did not offer a reason for the change.

The other holdout among Catholic colleges, Mount Saint Mary’s University Los Angeles, a women’s liberal arts school sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, now lists the COVID-19 series of vaccines as among five “highly recommended immunizations” but not among required immunizations, according to a landing page on the university’s website.

A spokesman for Mount Saint Mary’s University Los Angeles could not immediately be reached Tuesday.

Lucia Sinatra, co-founder of No College Mandates, which opposes coronavirus vaccine requirements and tracks them, told the Register on Tuesday that the change in language on the Mount Saint Mary’s website usually means the mandate has been dropped.

She said that, nationwide, the number of colleges still requiring the vaccine has decreased from 15 last week to 10 or fewer this week.

At the University of San Francisco, incoming freshmen and other new students this school year were required to get the coronavirus vaccine by Aug. 15, 2024, according to a landing page on the university’s website. But that requirement is now lifted going forward.

“That was a stubborn one for us. We don’t know why. We couldn’t get through to get their reasoning or logic,” Sinatra told the Register by telephone on Tuesday.

She also said it’s clear that President Donald Trump’s executive order earlier this month threatening loss of federal funding for institutions of higher learning that require students, faculty and staff to get the coronavirus vaccine is having an effect.

“We feel like it’s a huge win, that they finally dropped the COVID-19 vaccine requirement. But we also feel that they wouldn’t have done it without the threat of the loss of federal funding,” she said.

“We’re super grateful that Donald Trump, with the stroke of a pen, was able to end what we’ve been fighting for for the last four years,” Sinatra said.

As the Register reported last week, No College Mandates keeps track of 1,212 four-year colleges and universities in the United States, which is not the total number of such schools but a selection based largely on U.S. News & World Report rankings.

Of those, 142 are Catholic colleges, according to an analysis by the Register. That’s about 70% of the 204 Catholic four-year colleges in the United States identified by the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities.

Of those 142 Catholic colleges, 45 never implemented a coronavirus vaccine mandate, while 97 did.