One leading indicator of the enormous importance of networks and network analysis to people, business, government, militaries and society is the explosion of network research centers at major universities. Below is a quickly compiled, unscientific, anecdotal sample of important university research programs.

Centers for Network Research

Carnegie Mellon	http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/
Columbia	http://www.coi.columbia.edu/
European Coalition	http://www.feem-web.it/ctn/
Harvard	http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/netgov/html/index.htm
Indiana University	http://nwb.slis.indiana.edu/
Iowa State	http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/anetwork.htm
MIT	http://reality.media.mit.edu/
NYU Stern Business	http://www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/site.html
Simon Frasier University	http://www.insna.org/
Stanford	http://www.stanford.edu/group/esrg/siliconvalley/home
U. of Massachusetts	http://supernet.som.umass.edu/
UC Berkeley	http://ssme.berkeley.edu/
University of Greenwich	http://tinyurl.com/2op9c5
University of Irvine	http://www.imbs.uci.edu/
University of Kentucky	http://networklinks.org/
UCLA	http://hcs.ucla.edu/home.htm
University of Ljubljana	http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/
Northwestern	http://www.northwestern.edu/nico/
Notre Dame	http://www.nd.edu/~networks/resources.htm
Nuffield Network	http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/nnnr
University of Toronto	http://baderlab.org/
University of Virginia	https://webapp.comm.virginia.edu/networkroundtable/
University of Washington	http://www.csss.washington.edu/