---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 519.12"
title: "29"
number: "519.12"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/519.12"
---

# §519.12. Definitions.

- (a) **Full-time students.** A full-time student for the purpose of this subpart is defined as one who meets the accepted definition of a full-time student of the institution of higher education which employs him/her. A full-time student retains that status during the student's Christmas, summer and other vacations, even when a student is taking one or more courses during his/her summer or other vacation. The phrase in [section 14(b)](/cfr/29/14.md?p=b) of the statute “regardless of age but in compliance with applicable child labor laws”, among other things restricts the employment in an institution of higher education to full-time students who are at least 14 years of age because of the application of [section 3(1)](/cfr/29/3.md?p=1) of the Act.
- (b) **Institution of higher education.** An institution of higher education is an institution above the secondary level, such as a college or university, a junior college, or a professional school of engineering, law, library science, social work, etc. It is one that is recognized by a national accrediting agency or association as determined by the U.S. Commissioner of Education. Generally, an institution of higher education: (1) Admits as regular students only individuals having a certificate of graduation from a high school or the recognized equivalent of such a certificate; and (2) is legally authorized within a State to provide a program of education beyond high school; and (3) provides an educational program for which it normally awards a bachelor's degree, or provides not less than a two-year program which is acceptable for full credit toward such a degree or offers a two-year program in engineering, mathematics, or the physical or biological sciences which is designed to prepare the student to work as a technician and at a semi-professional level in engineering, scientific, or other technological fields which require the understanding and application of basic engineering, scientific, or mathematical principles of knowledge.

## Notes

### Amendments

[40 FR 6329, Feb. 11, 1975; 40 FR 22546, May 23, 1975]

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 11 and 14, 52 Stat. 1068; sec. 11, 75 Stat. 74; secs. 501 and 602, 80 Stat. 843, 844 (29 U.S.C. 211, 214).

### Source

Source: 40 FR 6329, Feb. 11, 1975, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[40 FR 6329, Feb. 11, 1975; 40 FR 22546, May 23, 1975]