Establishment and composition

§ 4382. Establishment and composition (a) The President may establish and maintain in civil educational institutions a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps having— (1) a senior division at universities and colleges granting degrees, and at schools essentially military that do not confer academic degrees and that are designated as qualified by the Secretary of the Army; and (2) a junior division at other public or private educational institutions. (b) Each division shall consist of one or more units of the several branches of the Army in the strengths prescribed by the President. (c) No unit may be established or maintained at an institution, unless— (1) a commissioned officer of the Regular Army is detailed to it as professor of military science and tactics; (2) the institution maintains under military instruction at least 100 physically fit male students for each infantry, armor, or247 artillery unit, or at least 50 such students for each other unit, except that an infantry unit may be established and maintained at the University of Alaska if it maintains at least 50 such students under military instruction; and (3) the authorities of the institution, other than a State university or a State institution required to provide military instruction under section 304 of title 7, agree to establish and maintain a two years’ elective or compulsory course of military training as a minimum for its physically fit male students the completion of which is a prerequisite for the graduation of any student beginning the course unless he is relieved of this obligation under regulations prescribed by the Secretary. (d) Only a person who is a citizen of the United States, who is at least 14 years of age, who is a student at an institution where a unit of the Corps is established, and whose condition shows that he is physically able to perform military duty or that he will be so on becoming of military age, is eligible to be a member of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.