NYU in the World
One of the foundations of an NYU undergraduate education is to create and foster global citizenship. Over 10% of the NYU student body — 5,000 students — come to Washington Square from other countries. And we draw faculty as well from all corners of the globe who spend time on campus, anywhere from a few weeks to year-long appointments. The excitement and complexity of these encounters between cultures lies at the heart of what makes NYU unique.
NYU's StudyAbroad program accentuates NYU's commitment to producing global citizens who are not only "in and of the city," but "in and of the world." With opportunities to study in Accra, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Florence, London, Madrid, Paris, Prague and Shanghai, students are taught by faculty drawn from both NYU's Washington Square campus and from the academic communities of the countries in which students study. Students sometimes live in local family homes, and are also immersed in local culture through organized activities — aspects that make our StudyAbroad program a central feature of the NYU undergraduate experience. Fully one-third of NYU's students take advantage of these opportunities to study abroad. And our goal is to increase that number to 50 percent over the next several years.
Also emblematic of NYU's global citizenship is the fact that 17,000 NYU alumni live outside the United States.