---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 C.F.R. § 668.38"
title: "34"
number: "668.38"
heading: "Enrollment in telecommunications and correspondence courses."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/34/668.38"
---

# §668.38. Enrollment in telecommunications and correspondence courses.

- (a) If a student is enrolled in correspondence courses, the student is eligible to receive title IV, HEA program assistance only if the correspondence courses are part of a program that leads to an associate, bachelor's, or graduate degree.
- (b)
  - (1) For purposes of this section, a student enrolled in a telecommunications course at an institution of higher education is not enrolled in a correspondence course.
  - (2) For purposes of [paragraph (b)(1)](#b-1) of this section, an institution of higher education is one that is not an institute or school described in [section 3(3)(C)](/cfr/34/3.md?p=3-C) of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act of 1995.

## Notes

### Amendments

[60 FR 61810, Dec. 1, 1995, as amended at 64 FR 57358, Oct. 22, 1999; 71 FR 45696, Aug. 9, 2006]

### Source

Source: 60 FR 61810, Dec. 1, 1995, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1001-1003, 1070g, 1085, 1088, 1091, 1092, 1094, 1099c, 1099c-1, 1221e-3, and 1231a, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[60 FR 61810, Dec. 1, 1995, as amended at 64 FR 57358, Oct. 22, 1999; 71 FR 45696, Aug. 9, 2006]