Centers
UCIS also coordinates centers for area studies and centers on topical specializations in international studies. Within UCIS, there are six component studies centers have been competitively designated National Resource Centers by the United States Department of Education making the university one of only 17 to claim four or more study programs designated as such. These National Resource designated centers include the East Asian component of the Asian Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Russian and East European Studies, European Studies Center, the Global Studies Program, and the International Business Center. In addition, with the help of UCIS coordination, the University of Pittsburgh has received 115 grants funded through the U.S. Department of Education, the 14th most out of the 594 institutions of higher education receiving such International Education Programs Service grants.
In addition, Pitt's Asian Studies Center was awarded the first Confucius Institute in Pennsylvania by the Chinese Ministry of Education. Pitt's Confucius Institute has been named the Confucius Institute of the Year twice since 2007, including in 2011 when it was one of only 30 such designates world-wide, and one of only five in the United States. and has been named as one of six national sites of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA). Also, Pitt is home to one of just ten European Union Centers of Excellence in the U.S., funded by the European Commission.
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