---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 C.F.R. § 106.15"
title: "34"
number: "106.15"
heading: "Admissions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/34/106.15"
---

# §106.15. Admissions.

- (a) **Admissions to educational institutions prior to June 24, 1973, are not covered by this part.**
- (b) **Administratively separate units.** For purposes only of this section and subpart C, each administratively separate unit shall be deemed to be an educational institution.
- (c) **Application of subpart C.** Except as provided in paragraphs [(d)](#d) and [(e)](#e) of this section, [subpart C](/cfr/34/subpartC.md) applies to each recipient. A recipient to which [subpart C](/cfr/34/subpartC.md) applies shall not discriminate on the basis of sex in admission or recruitment in violation of that subpart.
- (d) **Educational institutions.** Except as provided in [paragraph (e)](#e) of this section as to recipients which are educational institutions, [subpart C](/cfr/34/subpartC.md) applies only to institutions of vocational education, professional education, graduate higher education, and public institutions of undergraduate higher education.
- (e) **Public institutions of undergraduate higher education.** Subpart C does not apply to any public institution of undergraduate higher education which traditionally and continually from its establishment has had a policy of admitting only students of one sex.

## Notes

### Amendments

[45 FR 30955, May 9, 1980, as amended at 45 FR 86298, Dec. 30, 1980; 85 FR 30579, May 19, 2020; 89 FR 33886, Apr. 29, 2024]

### Authority

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq., unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 30955, May 9, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[45 FR 30955, May 9, 1980, as amended at 45 FR 86298, Dec. 30, 1980; 85 FR 30579, May 19, 2020; 89 FR 33886, Apr. 29, 2024]