---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 3483"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "3483"
heading: "Approval of courses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/3483"
units:
  - "Part III — Readjustment and Related Benefits"
  - "Chapter 34 — Veterans’ Educational Assistance"
  - "Subchapter IV — Payments to Eligible Veterans; Veteran-Student Services"
---

# §3483. Approval of courses


An [eligible veteran](/usc/38/3202.md?p=1-A) shall receive the [benefits](/usc/38/4303.md?p=2) of this chapter while enrolled in a course of education offered by an [educational institution](/usc/38/3002.md?p=8) only if such course is approved in accordance with the provisions of subchapter I[^1] of [chapter 36](/usc/38/chptIII/ch36.md) of this title.


## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 89–358, § 2, Mar. 3, 1966, 80 Stat. 19, § 1685; renumbered § 1686, Pub. L. 90–77, title III, § 304(a), Aug. 31, 1967, 81 Stat. 186; renumbered § 1683, Pub. L. 92–540, title IV, § 401(7), Oct. 24, 1972, 86 Stat. 1090; renumbered § 3483, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Subchapter I of chapter 36 of this title, referred to in text, was redesignated subchapter II (§ 3670 et seq.) of chapter 36 of this title by Pub. L. 117–333, § 2(a)(1), Jan. 5, 2023, 136 Stat. 6122.

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 1683 of this title as this section.