NYU Shanghai models itself on best practices in scholarly training and exchange. Opportunities for students to pursue doctoral studies are offered through two models - the NYU Shanghai PhD programs and NYU Shanghai-ECNU Joint Graduate Training Program (N.E.T.). The University is building a complete ecosystem of talents - including the training of young scholars by the most active and influential researchers and visiting scholars - and has grown into a world-class platform for research, international exchanges, and cooperation.
Over the past decade, NYU Shanghai has hosted more than 1,300 academic events, including conferences, summer intensive programs, workshops, and colloquia. NYU Shanghai has welcomed more than 1,800 visiting scholars for academic exchanges, with over 60% of them coming from outside of China. Additionally, 40 leading scientists, including Nobel Prize laureates, members of national academies, and fellows of renowned associations, have joined and contributed to the development of the University’s research centers.
Postdocs are often at the core of the world’s most competitive research teams. NYU Shanghai cooperates with universities worldwide to create a training system for young researchers and is part of a shared network for exchanges in mathematics with New York University, University of Bonn, ENS Paris, Kyoto University, University of Oxford, and East China Normal University.
NYU Shanghai values and encourages undergraduate students’ engagement in research, providing them with opportunities to participate in cutting-edge research and in-depth exchanges with leading scholars through programs including the Deans’ Undergraduate Research Fund, Honors Programs, and the Undergraduate Research Symposiums and Conferences.
NYU Shanghai’s faculty resources and research platforms are open to the broader academic community as well. The University has established several research programs in neuroscience, physics, and molecular science for undergraduates and graduate students from universities in China and beyond. Selected students have opportunities to engage in research in top laboratories with their assigned advisors and complete 10-week to 3-month-long independent research projects.
