NYU Shanghai leverages its international environment to nurture students' holistic development and prepare them for success.
From the start, NYU Shanghai students receive professional, detailed and comprehensive academic support to help them develop their skills and explore their own academic path.
Individualized Mentoring
The Academic Resource Center features a team of trained faculty and staff selected from the world's top universities who provide students with one-on-one support in reading, writing, mathematics, science, chemistry, business, economics, and other subjects.
Academic Counseling
A professional academic adviser is assigned to each student to advise them on academic choices, help them navigate school policies, and work with them to develop an academic plan based on their personal interests.
Extensive Library Collection
In addition to over 20,000 books and multimedia resources in the school’s library, students have access to the NYU Global Network’s extensive collection of books, databases and electronic resources.
Community Engagement
The Office for Community Engaged Learning integrates societal engagement in the classroom curriculum. An immersion-based learning process allows students to combine academic theories with community-based research.
Credit Courses
- Community Libraries
- Creating Assistive Technology
- Language and Power
- Public Science Education in China
- Remade in China
- The Cultivated City
- Visual Culture and Social Art Practice
NYU Shanghai’s performance arts program includes courses in dance, music, and theater as well as a visual arts program with courses in art history and theory, painting, Chinese calligraphy and ink, and photography. These courses are meant to enrich artistic expression, nourish imagination and creativity, and enhance students’ artistic literacy.
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) at NYU Shanghai is a non-profit gallery and research center committed to the development, presentation, and exchange of diverse ideas through contemporary arts. The ICA operates on the core belief that engagement with art engenders critical thought, creativity, and an open attitude towards complexity across disciplines, in society, and in everyday life.
NYU Shanghai organizes a variety of initiatives and programs that allow for self-exploration, cross-cultural interaction, and integration into the wider community outside the classroom.
Student Programs
The New Student Program runs a series of workshops, conversations and exchanges to help first-year students settle into campus life. The Diversity Initiatives Program raises cultural and identity awareness while strengthening campus inclusivity.
Residential Life
Living on campus and participating in dorm-based activities with classmates from around the world is central to the NYU Shanghai experience. All first-year students are paired with roommates of a different nationality, allowing for an exchange of culture and ideas. Residential programming promotes learning outside the classroom, cultural appreciation, and a sense of community.
Athletics and Fitness
NYU Shanghai offers a variety of resources for students to stay active and fit. Eight sports teams are open to students, including basketball, volleyball, soccer, tennis and badminton.
Health and Wellness
The Student Health Center provides an array of medical and counseling support tailored to support students' physical, emotional, and mental health needs during their time at NYU Shanghai.
Clubs
NYU Shanghai encourages students to explore their interests and develop hands-on leadership skills through participation in 30 student unions, clubs and volunteer activities.
Community Service
Through the Dean’s Service Corps, Project OutReach, and “This is China,” NYU Shanghai works with organizations in Shanghai and across China on educational and environmental protection projects
