---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 1921"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "1921"
heading: "Corps of Cadets authorized strength"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/1921"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 19 — Coast Guard Academy"
  - "Subchapter II — Cadets"
---

# §1921. Corps of Cadets authorized strength


The number of cadets appointed annually to the Academy shall be as determined by the Secretary but the number appointed in any one year shall not exceed six hundred.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 110(c)(1)(B), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4213.)