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§283a–2 Annual Reporting Regarding Training of Graduate Students for Doctoral Degrees

Title 42 › Chapter 6A— PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter III— NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES › Part A— National Institutes of Health › § 283a–2

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

If a college or university gets NIH funding to train graduate students for doctoral degrees, it must report every year to the Director of the National Institutes of Health. The report must say, for the students the NIH supports at that school, the percent of admitted students who finish a doctoral degree and the average time from the start of graduate study to earning that degree. The school must also give the same two pieces of information to every person who applies to a graduate program there, for the program the person applied to.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §283a–2

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Each institution receiving an award under this subchapter for the training of graduate students for doctoral degrees shall annually report to the Director of NIH, with respect to graduate students supported by the National Institutes of Health at such institution—
(1)the percentage of such students admitted for study who successfully attain a doctoral degree; and
(2)for students described in paragraph (1), the average time between the beginning of graduate study and the receipt of a doctoral degree.
(3)Each institution described in subsection (a) shall provide to each student submitting an application for a program of graduate study at such institution the information described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of such subsection with respect to the program or programs to which such student has applied.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 403C of act July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 403D and is classified to section 283a–3 of this title.

Amendments

2016—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 114–255 struck out “(not including any leaves of absence)” after “time”. 2007—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110–85, § 1104(5)(A), substituted “graduate students supported by the National Institutes of Health” for “each degree-granting program” in introductory provisions. Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 110–85, § 1104(5)(B), inserted “such” after “percentage of”. Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 110–85, § 1104(5)(C), inserted “(not including any leaves of absence)” after “average time”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section applicable only with respect to amounts appropriated for fiscal year 2007 or subsequent fiscal years, see section 109 of Pub. L. 109–482, set out as an

Effective Date

of 2007 Amendment note under section 281 of this title.

Reference

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 283a–2

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60