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10 U.S.C. § 2103 — Eligibility for membership
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**(a)** To be eligible for membership in the program a person must be a student at an institution where a unit of the Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps is established. However, a student at an institution that does not have a unit of the Corps is eligible, if otherwise qualified, to be a member of a unit at another institution.
**(b)** Persons from foreign countries may be enrolled as members of the program when their enrollment is approved by the Secretary of the military department concerned under criteria approved by the Secretary of State.
**(c)** A medical, dental, pharmacy, veterinary, or sciences allied to medicine, student may be admitted to a unit of the program for a course of training consisting of 90 hours of instruction a year for four academic years.
**(d)** Under such conditions as the Secretary of the military department concerned may prescribe, a medical, dental, pharmacy, veterinary, or sciences allied to medicine, student who is a commissioned officer of a reserve component of an armed force may be admitted to and trained in a unit of the program.
**(e)** An educational institution at which a unit of the program has been established shall give priority for enrollment in the program to students who are eligible for advanced training under [section 2104 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2104&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a)** To be eligible for membership in the program a person must be a student at an institution where a unit of the Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps is established. However, a student at an institution that does not have a unit of the Corps is eligible, if otherwise qualified, to be a member of a unit at another institution.
**(b)** Persons from foreign countries may be enrolled as members of the program when their enrollment is approved by the Secretary of the military department concerned under criteria approved by the Secretary of State.
**(c)** A medical, dental, pharmacy, veterinary, or sciences allied to medicine, student may be admitted to a unit of the program for a course of training consisting of 90 hours of instruction a year for four academic years.
**(d)** Under such conditions as the Secretary of the military department concerned may prescribe, a medical, dental, pharmacy, veterinary, or sciences allied to medicine, student who is a commissioned officer of a reserve component of an armed force may be admitted to and trained in a unit of the program.
**(e)** An educational institution at which a unit of the program has been established shall give priority for enrollment in the program to students who are eligible for advanced training under [section 2104 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2104&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a)** Advanced training shall be provided to eligible members of the program and, if the institution concerned so requests, to eligible applicants for membership in the program.
**(b)** To be eligible for continuation, or initial enrollment, in the program for advanced training, a person must—
(1) be a citizen of the United States;
(2) be selected for advanced training under procedures prescribed by the Secretary of the military department concerned;
(3) enlist in an armed force under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the military department concerned for the period prescribed by the Secretary;
(4) contract, with the consent of his parent or guardian if he is a minor, with the Secretary of the military department concerned, or his designated representative, to serve for the period required by the program;
(5) agree in writing that he will accept an appointment, if offered, as a commissioned officer in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force, as the case may be, and that he will serve in the armed forces for the period prescribed by the Secretary;
(6) either—
(A) complete successfully—
(i) the first two years of a four-year Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps course; or
(ii) field training or a practice cruise of a duration which is prescribed by the Secretary concerned as a preliminary requirement for admission to the advanced course; or
(B) at the discretion of the Secretary concerned, agree in writing to complete field training or a practice cruise, as prescribed by the Secretary concerned, within two years after admission to the advanced course; and
(7) execute a certificate of loyalty in such form as the Secretary of Defense prescribes or take a loyalty oath as prescribed by the Secretary.
**(c)** A member of the pro
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 2103
in the program shall be elective or compulsory
as provided by State law or the authorities of
the institution concerned.
(d) The President shall cause to be established
and maintained in each State at least one unit
of the program if—
(1) a unit is requested by an educational in-
stitution in the State;
(2) such request is approved by the Governor
of the State in which the institution request-
ing the unit is located; and
(3) the Secretary of the military department
concerned determines that there will be not
less than 40 students enrolled in such unit and
that the provisions of this section are other-
wise satisfied.
(Added Pub. L. 88–647, title II, § 201(1), Oct. 13,
1964, 78 Stat. 1065; amended Pub. L. 95–79, title
VI, § 602, July 30, 1977, 91 Stat. 332; Pub. L.
116–283, div. A, title IX, § 924(b)(3)(BB), Jan. 1,
2021, 134 Stat. 3822.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2021—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116–283 substituted ‘‘Marine
Corps, or Space Force’’ for ‘‘or Marine Corps’’.
1977—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 95–79 added subsec. (d).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
MILITARY TRAINING FOR FEMALE UNDERGRADUATES AT
MILITARY COLLEGES; REGULATIONS
Pub. L. 95–485, title VIII, § 809, Oct. 20, 1978, 92 Stat.
1623, directed the Secretary of Defense to require that
any college or university designated as a military col-
lege provide that qualified female undergraduate stu-
dents be eligible to participate in military training at
such college or university, and prohibited the Sec-
retary from requiring such college or university to re-
quire female undergraduate students enrolled in such
college or university to participate in military train-
ing, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 98–525, title XIV,
§§ 1403(b), 1404, Oct. 19, 1984
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