---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2168"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2168"
heading: "Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center: degree of Associate or Bachelor of Arts in foreign language"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2168"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part III — Training and Education"
  - "Chapter 108 — Department of Defense Schools"
---

# §2168. Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center: degree of Associate or Bachelor of Arts in foreign language

- (a) Subject to [subsection (b)](#b), the Commandant of the Defense Language Institute may confer—
  - (1) an Associate of Arts degree in a foreign language upon any graduate of the Foreign Language Center of the Institute who fulfills the requirements for that degree; or
  - (2) a Bachelor of Arts degree in a foreign language upon any graduate of the Foreign Language Center of the Institute who fulfills the requirements for that degree.
- (b) A degree may be conferred upon a student under this section only if the Provost of the Center certifies to the Commandant that the student has satisfied all the requirements prescribed for the degree.
- (c) The authority provided by [subsection (a)](#a) shall be exercised under regulations prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title V, § 531(a), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1104; amended Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title V, § 556(a), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 1739.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 117–81, § 556(a)(1), substituted “Associate or Bachelor” for “Associate” in section catchline.

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 117–81, § 556(a)(2), amended subsec. (a) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (a) read as follows: “Subject to subsection (b), the Commandant of the Defense Language Institute may confer an Associate of Arts degree in a foreign language upon any graduate of the Foreign Language Center of the Institute who fulfills the requirements for that degree.”