---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 C.F.R. § 648.33"
title: "34"
number: "648.33"
heading: "What priorities and absolute preferences does the Secretary establish?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/34/648.33"
---

# §648.33. What priorities and absolute preferences does the Secretary establish?

- (a) For each application period, the Secretary establishes as an area of national need and gives absolute preference to one or more of the general disciplines and sub-disciplines listed as priorities in the appendix to this part or the resulting interdisciplines.
- (b) The Secretary announces the absolute preferences in a notice published in the Federal Register.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1135-1135e, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 58 FR 65842, Dec. 16, 1993, unless otherwise noted.