---
kind: "section"
citation: "51 U.S.C. § 40101"
title: "51"
title_heading: "National and Commercial Space Programs"
number: "40101"
heading: "Definition of institution of higher education"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/51/40101"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Aeronautics and Space Research and Education"
  - "Chapter 401 — Aeronautics"
  - "Subchapter I — General"
---

# §40101. Definition of institution of higher education


In this chapter, the term “institution of higher education” has the meaning given the term by section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ([20 U.S.C. 1001](/usc/20/1001.md)).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3378.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 40101 | 42 U.S.C. 16701. | Pub. L. 109–155, title IV, § 401, Dec. 30, 2005, 119 Stat. 2923. |