---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 86.15"
title: "45"
number: "86.15"
heading: "Admissions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/86.15"
---

# §86.15. Admissions.

- (a) **Admissions to educational institutions prior to June 24, 1973, are not covered by this part.**
- (b) **Administratively separate units.** For the purposes only of this section, §§ [86.16](/cfr/45/86.16.md) and [86.17](/cfr/45/86.17.md), and [subpart C](/cfr/45/subpartC.md), 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/45/subpartC.md) applies to each recipient. A recipient to which [subpart C](/cfr/45/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/45/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

[40 FR 24128, June 4, 1975; 40 FR 39506, Aug. 28, 1975]

### Authority

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1681 through 1688; Pub. L. 100-259, 102 Stat. 28 (Mar. 22, 1988).

### Source

Source: 40 FR 24137, June 4, 1975, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[40 FR 24128, June 4, 1975; 40 FR 39506, Aug. 28, 1975]