New York University earlier this week announced plans to open a new Shanghai campus that could ultimately be home to as many as 3,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. NYU Shanghai will welcome its first class of undergraduate students in September 2013, becoming NYU’s second international campus and the first in China with independent legal status.
“In the 21st century, NYU is evolving from being, in the words of its founder, Albert Gallatin, ‘in and of the city’ to being ‘in and of the world,’” NYU President John Sexton said in a statement. “New York and Shanghai enjoy a natural affinity as world capitals; as vibrant, ambitious, and forward-looking centers of commerce and culture; as magnets for people of talent,” he continued. The school expects the new Shanghai campus to draw student talent from around the world, with up to half of the students from China itself.
NYU Shanghai, like NYU New York and NYU Abu Dhabi, will be a degree-granting portal campus – part of a “global network university” the school has set out to establish – an organic integrated system in which faculty and students can move easily to follow their studies. Classes will be taught in English.
The admissions process will be highly selective, the first in China to consider a broader set of admissions criteria than the GaoKao national higher education entrance examination. The school will provide a comprehensive liberal arts curriculum, and students will be able to spend as many as three semesters studying in New York or one of NYU’s sites around the world. In time, NYU Shanghai will also offer programs in economics and social sciences, mathematics, biological sciences, philosophy, art history, cinematic and performing arts, and professional studies including business and law.
NYU Shanghai will be funded through a combination of government support, tuition and charitable contributions, and NYU partners in Shanghai will be the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, Pudong New Area and East China Normal University (ECNU). ECNU will provide guidance on educational issues within China, but because NYU has independent status as part of the deal, it has the discretion to determine “all academic matters,” including curriculum, faculty and the selection of students.
“As we did in Abu Dhabi, here in Shanghai we have found visionary partners, and our joint effort to create NYU Shanghai emerges out of a common belief in the indispensible value of higher education and in the special opportunities that can be created when the world’s greatest cities join forces,” Sexton said. “This will be a great university and a great partnership.”
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