; (B) a consortium of institutions of higher education; or (C) a partnership consisting of 1 or more institutions of higher education and 1 or more corporate entity or nonprofit organization. (2) Professional education and technical training The term professional education and technical training means a program at an institution of higher education that offers undergraduate, graduate, or post-graduate level education in a professional or technical field that is determined by the Secretary as meeting a national need for global or international competency (which may include a program in the field of business, science, technology, engineering, law, health, energy, environment, agriculture, transportation, or education). (c) Program authorized From amounts made available to carry out this section and subject to subsection (g), the Secretary shall award grants or contracts, on a competitive basis, to eligible entities to enable the eligible entities to carry out programs designed to— (1) establish an interdisciplinary global dimension in the undergraduate and graduate curricula of programs of business, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, health, environment, energy, agriculture, law, civics, and other professional education and technical training, to be determined by the Secretary based on national needs; (2) produce graduates with proficiencies in both the global aspects of their professional fields and international, cross-cultural, and foreign language skills; and (3) provide appropriate services to or linkages with corporate, government, and nonprofit communities that— (A) will expand the knowledge and capacity of such communities for global engagement and competitiveness