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[CITE: 10USC4314]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                            Subtitle B--Army
 
                           PART III--TRAINING
 
                     CHAPTER 401--TRAINING GENERALLY
 
Sec. 4314. United States Army Command and General Staff College 
        degree
        
    Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Army, and with 
the approval of a nationally recognized civilian accrediting association 
approved by the Secretary of Education, the Commandant of the United 
States Army Command and General Staff College may upon recommendation by 
the faculty confer the degree of master of military art and science upon 
graduates of the college who have fulfilled the following degree 
requirements: a minimum of thirty semester hours of graduate credit, 
including a masters thesis of six to eight semester hours, and a 
demonstration of competence in the discipline of military art and 
science as evidenced by satisfactory performance on a general 
comprehensive examination. These requirements may be altered only with 
the approval of such association.

(Added Pub. L. 93-365, title VII, Sec. 708(a)(1), Aug. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 
407; amended Pub. L. 96-513, title V, Sec. 512(11), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 
Stat. 2929; Pub. L. 101-510, div. A, title XIII, Sec. 1322(a)(13), Nov. 
5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1671.)


                               Amendments

    1990--Pub. L. 101-510 struck out at end ``The Secretary of the Army 
shall report annually to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate 
and House of Representatives the following information: (1) the criteria 
which must be met to entitle a student to award of the degree, (2) 
whether such criteria have changed in any respect during the reporting 
year, (3) the number of students in the most recent resident course 
graduating class, (4) the number of such students who were enrolled in 
the master of military art and science program, and (5) the number of 
students successfully completing the master of military art and science 
program.''
    1980--Pub. L. 96-513 substituted ``Secretary of Education'' for 
``Commissioner of Education, Department of Health, Education, and 
Welfare''.


                    Effective Date of 1980 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 96-513 effective Dec. 12, 1980, see section 
701(b)(3) of Pub. L. 96-513, set out as a note under section 101 of this 
title.


              Retroactive Degree Conferral; Maximum Amount

    Section 708(b) of Pub. L. 93-365 provided that: ``The Commandant of 
the United States Army Command and General Staff College may confer the 
degree of master of military art and science upon graduates of the 
college who have completed the requirements for that degree since 1964 
but prior to the enactment of this Act [Aug. 5, 1974]; but the number of 
such degrees awarded for such period may not exceed two hundred.''
