---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2009"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2009"
heading: "Military colleges: female students"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2009"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part III — Training and Education"
  - "Chapter 101 — Training Generally"
---

# §2009. Military colleges: female students

- (a) Under regulations prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense, any college or university designated by the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense as a [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) college shall, as a condition of maintaining such designation, provide that qualified female undergraduate students enrolled in such college or university be eligible to participate in [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) at such college or university.
- (b) Regulations prescribed under [subsection (a)](#a) may not require a college or university, as a condition of maintaining its designation as a [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) college or for any other purpose, to require female undergraduate students enrolled in such college or university to participate in [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 98–525, title XIV, § 1401(g)(1), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2619.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in Pub. L. 95–485, title VIII, § 809, Oct. 20, 1978, 92 Stat. 1623, which was set out as a note under section 2102 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 98–525, §§ 1403(b), 1404.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1985, see section 1404 of Pub. L. 98–525, set out as a note under section 520b of this title.