Introduction; The aim of this study was to examine the knowledge of college students about the carcinoma cervix etiology and transmission. Material and methods; The study was cross sectional descriptive study, conducted in Meera Girls college of Udaipur city. 90 girl students of all streams (science, commerce, arts) were included. Knowledge regarding cervical carcinoma etiology and prevention was assessed by using pre tested semi structured questionnaire. Results; Mean and median age of students was found to be 18.9 and 18 year respectively. Mean score of knowledge depicted that majority of students (72.2%) had average level of knowledge, 18.8% had poor level of knowledge and 8.8% had good knowledge. Highest mean score i.e. 6.7 was observed in science stream followed by commerce stream i.e. 6.2 followed by arts i.e. 5.7 and this difference was found to be statistically significant. (p value– 0.0264). Attitude towards vaccination depicted that 61.6% students wanted to get vaccination, among them only 19.6% could spend money on vaccination, while 80.3% desired that govt should provide HPV vaccination facility. Conclusions; Majority of students were aware of the existence of the cervical carcinoma, its morbid potential and the HPV–vaccination.