{"data":{"id":"us/7-cfr-3434.4","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"7 CFR 3434.4","heading":"Eligibility.","body":"(a) General. To be eligible to receive designation as a HSACU, colleges and universities must:\n(1) Qualify as Hispanic-serving Institutions; and\n(2) Offer associate, bachelors, or other accredited degree programs in agriculture-related fields pursuant to § 3434.5.\n(b) Non-eligibility. The following colleges and universities are ineligible for HSACU certification:\n(1) 1862 land-grant institutions, as defined in section 2 of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7601);\n(2) Institutions that appear in the Lists of Parties Excluded from Federal financial and nonfinancial assistance and benefits programs (Excluded Parties List System);\n(3) Institutions that are not accredited by a nationally recognized accredited agency or association; and\n(4) Institutions with Hispanic students receiving less than 15% of the degrees awarded in agriculture-related programs over the two most recent completed academic years.","path":["Title 7—Agriculture","Subtitle B—Regulations of the Department of Agriculture","CHAPTER XXXIV—NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE","PART 3434—HISPANIC-SERVING AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES CERTIFICATION PROCESS"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-7.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:01Z","sha256":"bdbb1b32d9dae42e52618f3ee5af6ca3b31a5279a87b103ee3bb39eed342cf0c","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/7-cfr-3434.3","next":"us/7-cfr-3434.5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}