NYU in Shanghai: offering all the benefits of New York University in Asia's most exciting business and cultural center.
Study abroad is an important chapter in any student's college experience. It gives you a chance to see new things, challenge yourself in different ways, and open up your educational horizons to unfamiliar ideas. In a new place, you can discover a whole new way of interacting with the world. The key to enjoying yourself in Shanghai and learning as much as you can is opening yourself to all of the new things that you will encounter.
NYU in Shanghai is here to provide you with opportunities for cultural and educational exploration. Through group trips, local homestay weekends and a diverse curriculum of courses, the depth of your experience in Shanghai can be as vast as you allow it.
While in Shanghai, students will take all of their courses on the campus of East China Normal University (ECNU), one of Shanghai's premiere institutions, renowned for the strength of the Chinese language program, from which NYU in Shanghai gets most of its Chinese instructors. NYU in Shanghai provides rife opportunity for integration into the college environment, with weekly English Corner meetings, classes offered with local and American students and other extracurricular activities like singing competitions and sports tournaments.
Students with advanced Mandarin Chinese language skills are permitted to take regular curriculum courses at ECNU. These options allow students the opportunity to improve both their Chinese and become familiar with the Chinese educational system and current topics in Chinese culture.
NYU in Shanghai students also take a special two-credit course on contemporary topics in Chinese business, politics, and media. Both local and western speakers from a variety of backgrounds will visit to present the students with an in-depth and multi-faceted view of the country in which they are studying.
