110 ILCS 1005/1
For the purposes of this Act:
"Post-secondary educational institution" means a privately-operated college, junior college or university offering degrees and instruction above the high school level either in residence or by correspondence.
"Board" means the Board of Higher Education established under "An Act creating a Board of Higher Education, defining its powers and duties, making an appropriation therefor, and repealing an Act herein named", approved August 22, 1961, as now or hereafter amended.
"Degree" means any designation, appellation, series of letters or words, or other symbol which signifies or purports to signify that the recipient thereof has satisfactorily completed an organized academic program of study beyond the secondary school level.
110 ILCS 1005/1