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Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102

§2103 Eligibility for Membership

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART III — TRAINING AND EDUCATION › CHAPTER 103 — SENIOR RESERVE OFFICERS’ TRAINING CORPS › § 2103

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

You must be a student at a school that has an ROTC unit to join the program. If your school has no unit, you can join a unit at another school if you otherwise qualify. Students from other countries can join if the military department’s Secretary approves them under rules okayed by the Secretary of State. Students in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary, or allied health fields can take 90 hours a year for four academic years. Commissioned reserve officers in those fields may join and train under conditions the military Secretary sets. Schools with a unit must give priority to students who qualify for advanced training under section 2104.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §2103

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)To be eligible for membership in the program a person must be a student at an institution where a unit of the Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps is established. However, a student at an institution that does not have a unit of the Corps is eligible, if otherwise qualified, to be a member of a unit at another institution.
(b)Persons from foreign countries may be enrolled as members of the program when their enrollment is approved by the Secretary of the military department concerned under criteria approved by the Secretary of State.
(c)A medical, dental, pharmacy, veterinary, or sciences allied to medicine, student may be admitted to a unit of the program for a course of training consisting of 90 hours of instruction a year for four academic years.
(d)Under such conditions as the Secretary of the military department concerned may prescribe, a medical, dental, pharmacy, veterinary, or sciences allied to medicine, student who is a commissioned officer of a reserve component of an armed force may be admitted to and trained in a unit of the program.
(e)An educational institution at which a unit of the program has been established shall give priority for enrollment in the program to students who are eligible for advanced training under section 2104 of this title.

Legislative History

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Amendments

1996—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 104–201 added subsec. (e).

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 2103

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102