New York University Shanghai

New York University Shanghai (NYU Shanghai; legal name registered as Shanghai New York University) is a joint-venture university in Pudong, Shanghai, China. It was established in 2012 under a partnership between East China Normal University and New York University. It is the third degree-granting campus of New York University.

Jointly established by the two universities with the support from the Shanghai Municipal People's Government in 2012, it was the first Sino-foreign joint university to receive independent legal entity accreditation from the Ministry of Education of China. Classes are in English. Upon graduation, undergraduate students will receive bachelor's degrees from both New York University and New York University Shanghai. Students can study abroad at one of New York University's 13 global academic centers and 2 degree-granting campuses.

The school opened to students in September 2013. Of the class of 295 students, 51% came from The People's Republic of China, with the remaining 49% coming from other countries around the world. During the 2013–2014 academic year, NYU Shanghai students studied at East China Normal University while the official NYU campus in Pudong was built. The Pudong campus was completed in the summer of 2014. Students moved into the new building at the start of the fall 2014 semester. Currently, the NYU Shanghai campus in Pudong serves NYU Shanghai students, study abroad students from New York, Abu Dhabi, and non-NYU affiliated colleges in other countries, as well as a number of NYU law students.

In 2018, the university introduced a "civic education" course at the behest of the Chinese Communist Party. The annual two-week course, executed during the university's Christmas break every year, is mandatory for all Chinese passport holders attending NYU Shanghai and includes lessons such as "Promoting the Prosperity and Development of Socialist Culture with Chinese Characteristics." These additions have been criticized as a step away from the university's academic freedom and raised questions of university control. In 2021, in response to a discrimination lawsuit brought by an NYU Shanghai professor at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the university stated that Shanghai New York University is not controlled by NYU.

During the 2019–2020 academic year, the commencement ceremony was moved online due to the ongoing COVID-19 public health restrictions. Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba and the commencement speaker of the ceremony, called upon students to find "a common path forward, a common path for cooperation" between China and the United States in his commencement speech. He was also a recipient of NYU Shanghai Chancellor's Medal of Honor.

Fall 2006: New York University established an overseas study center at East China Normal University, and 18 students came to ECNU to study.

September 2012: NYU Shanghai's registration as an independent institution approved by China's Ministry of Education.

March 2019: First NYU Shanghai Student wins the prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholarship.