Welcome from the Director:

On behalf of the staff of the NYU Office for International Students and Scholars, I'd like to welcome you to one of the world's great cities and to one of the world's great universities! Your academic life will be centered here amid the wonders of New York City , in and around the beautiful and historic Greenwich Village. Moreover, New York University will become your alma mater which best translates from the Latin as “nurturing mother.” Within these contexts, I hope that you will always consider the OISS to be one of your most important resources at NYU. Our mission at the OISS is to provide excellent, extensive, and timely assistance to our international student and scholar community, so I urge you to make use of the services and programs available to you in the OISS. There is much more related information on this Web site, so please explore! Finally, I want to thank you for choosing NYU, which I'm sure you'll find academically challenging, culturally enriching, and intensely exciting. Please also accept my very best wishes and kindest regards for a productive and successful academic year at NYU!

Dr. David B. Austell
Director