Institute
An institute is a permanent organizational body created for a certain purpose. Usually it is a research organization created to perform investigations in a certain area. The word comes from the Latin word institutum meaning facility or habit, from instituere meaning build, create, raise or educate.
List of institutes
Global or regional
- European Telecommunications Standards Institute
- Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
- Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research
- Commonwealth Institute
Argentina
Brazil
- Instituto Adolpho Lutz
- Instituto Butantan
- Instituto Edumed
- Instituto Eldorado
- Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
- Brazilian Institute for Consumer Defense (IDEC)
- Brazilian Institute of International Trade Law (IBDCI)
Canada
China
- Beijing Institute of Technology
- Harbin Institute of Technology
- Jiujiang Financial and Economic College
- Zhongyuan Institute of Technology
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
Germany
India
- Indian Institute of Science
- Indian Institutes of Technology
- Indian Statistical Institute
- Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies
- Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute
Israel
Japan
Korea
New Zealand
- Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS)
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
- Malaghan Institute of Medical Research
- Maxim Institute
- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
Poland
- Baltic Institute (Instutut Bałtycki), Gdańsk
- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology, Warsaw
- Masurian Institute (Instutut Mazurski), Olsztyn
- Western Institute (Instytut Zachodni), Poznań
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
- Needham Research Institute
- Institute of Advanced Motorists
- International African Institute
- International Institute for Strategic Studies
- Kent Institute of Art and Design (KIAD)
- Tavistock Institute
United States
- American Enterprise Institute
- American Film Institute
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- American Institute of Theology
- American National Standards Institute
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Beckman Research Institute
- California Institute of Technology
- California Institute of the Arts
- Cato Institute
- Clay Mathematics Institute
- Construction Specifications Institute
- Discovery Institute
- Foresight Institute
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction
- Olean Business Institute
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Institute for Contemporary Studies
- Institute for Cooperation in Space
- Institute for Historical Review
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Immortality Institute
- Information Sciences Institute
- Linux Professional Institute
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- National Institutes of Health
- Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
- Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT)
- Roosevelt Institution
- Rowland Institute for Science
- Salk Institute
- SANS Institute
- SAS Institute
- SITE Institute
- Software Engineering Institute
- Space Telescope Science Institute
- U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
- Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy
- Washington State Institute for Public Policy
- Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly School of the Americas)
- Worldwatch Institute
Vatican
- Pontifical Biblical Institute
See also
- consortium
- institution
- Category:Institutes
- Institutes of the Christian Religion (a work by John Calvin sometimes referred to as institutes)