National Administration Center

National Administrative Centers are a type of institute of tertiary education in the Terran Federation. NACs are a type of State Academy and are therefore not technically a university. Despite falling under the category of Administrative Academy and there being other types of academies, NACs are often colloquially referred to simply as academies. A NAC student is known as a centrist. 
NACs form future technocrats of the Federation. As such, they allow only humans to enroll and are exceptionally selective. Every year across the entire Federation, only about two hundred students graduate from NACs. The duration of the curriculum is also extremely long: most students applying for a NAC will already have a master's degree and the NAC curriculum itself lasts for seven years. Over 90% of students admitted into the first year will be dismissed by the seventh year. Most of them are reassigned to other Administrative Academies. 
Education is centered around two axis, administration and indoctrination. The former aims to prepare students to the activities they will have to fulfill as a future administrator. This includes classes in economics, management, history and others. Indoctrination on the other hand aims to render the student an exemplar bureaucrat: they must be utterly incorruptible, be self-sacrificing and put the state's interests before all else. This is achieved through what effectively amounts to brainwashing: students are to take drugs which make them more susceptible to suggestion and are subjected to intense interrogations to test their conviction. Most students that are dismissed are after failing such tests. 
There are only a handful of NACs in the Federation. Over half are located on Earth. The NACs are:
*Earth:
**National Administrative Center 1 London
**National Administrative Center 2 Brussels
**National Administrative Center 3 New York
**National Administrative Center 4 Moscow
**National Administrative Center 5 Santiago
**National Administrative Center 6 Johannesburg 
**National Administrative Center 7 Hyderabad 
**National Administrative Center 8 Sydney
**National Administrative Center 9 Singapore 
**National Administrative Center 10 Hong Kong 
**National Administrative Center 11 Busan
**National Administrative Center 12 Osaka
**National Administrative Center 13 Vancouver
*Mars:
**National Administrative Center 14 New Jamestown
**National Administrative Center 16 Olympus Mons
*Venus:
**National Administrative Center 15 Elys
*New Sidon:
**National Administrative Center 17 Barca
**National Administrative Center 18 Abrams
**National Administrative Center 21 Diana
*New Athens:
**National Administrative Center 19 Archia
*Hiigara:
**National Administrative Center 20 Montplaisir