Facilities & Services

The Center

The main administrative offices of NYU Shanghai are located on the campus of East China Normal University, one of the country’s premier institutions of higher learning, located to the northwest of the city center. The sprawling, green campus hosts many facilities such as a large library, classroom and administrative buildings, dormitories, extensive playing fields, and various small shops and restaurants. There you’ll find the director and student activities and housing staff, a computer lab and lounge for studying and checking email as well as a ping-pong table where students hold frequent tournaments.

Mandarin language courses also meet mornings in classrooms on campus and are taught by ECNU professors who are experts in teaching Chinese as a second language. A shuttle bus runs throughout the day to transport you to all your content courses which meet at the NYU Shanghai downtown center, conveniently located near Zhongshan Park and many nearby restaurants, shops and a metro station. Modern classrooms, a computer lab and meeting rooms are available at the downtown center which is staffed by an NYU Shanghai administrator. The centralized nature and small size of the NYU Shanghai program also provides an amazing community environment for you as a student.

• The on-campus classrooms are located in an ECNU building right next to the international forms, with space that provides literature on China, computers and printing, administration offices and student life offices.
• The off-campus facility was recently moved closer to NYU Shanghai’s on-campus building. This facility includes classrooms, computers and printing, a copying machine and a library with plenty of information for research papers and presentations.
• Shuttle buses provide transportation to and from NYU’s off-campus apartments and the on- campus facilities. Students can also walk to campus, which is about twenty-five minutes away, through a migrant worker neighborhood or take a bus from Cloud Nine mall.
• The administrators are at the facilities most of the time and getting in touch with a faculty member is never an issue.

The City as a Classroom

Many of the courses include additional activities that are off-campus visits to Shanghai’s historical sites or cultural centers. The Contemporary Art class has visits to the nearby city of Suzhou, local galleries and the homes of artists; the Economics class will visit Bao Steel, one of the world’s biggest producers; the Advertising course includes a trip to the offices of a locally-run advertising company. Most other classes will have equally interesting trips. The idea behind these events is that any educational experience, whether study abroad or otherwise, is enhanced by opportunities that allow students to interact with topics and themes in a non-classroom environment. As a result, the city of Shanghai essentially becomes an extension of the classroom.