---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2017"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2017"
heading: "Limitation on establishment of postsecondary educational institutions pending notice to Congress"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2017"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part III — Training and Education"
  - "Chapter 101 — Training Generally"
---

# §2017. Limitation on establishment of postsecondary educational institutions pending notice to Congress

- (a) **Limitation.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may not establish a postsecondary educational institution within the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense until a period of one year has elapsed following the date on which the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) notifies the [congressional defense committees](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-16) of the intent of the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) to establish the institution.
- (b) **Postsecondary Educational Institution Defined.—** In this section, the term “postsecondary educational institution” means a school or other educational institution that is intended to provide students with a course of instruction that is comparable, in length and academic rigor, to a course of instruction for which an associate’s, bachelor’s, or graduate degree may be awarded.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 116–92, div. A, title V, § 553(b)(1), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1387.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Applicability

Pub. L. 116–92, div. A, title V, § 553(b)(3), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1387, provided that: “Section 2017 of title 10, United States Code, as added by paragraph (1), shall apply with respect to postsecondary educational institutions intended to be established by the Secretary of Defense on or after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 20, 2019].”