中国第一所中美合作大学 上海纽约大学成立

The New York University Shanghai was officially opened on Monday, although the first batch of 300 undergraduates won’t start until next autumn. And at the beginning, the school says Chinese students will outnumber foreigners.

At the unveiling ceremony at Pudong’s Lujiazui financial and trade zone, the Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai said the school won’t just admit students based only on their national college entrance exam scores but will also hold separate interviews. And he said all freshmen will receive the same liberal arts education for their first year before choosing a major.

Jeffrey Lehman, CEO of NYU Shanghai, says, "Every one of our students will be participating in a core liberal arts curriculum. So there will be a course called ’global perspective on society’ which I’m going to teach myself, which will integrate east and west political philosophy, intellectual history, reading great books together.

All of our students whatever their majors will ultimately be. We’re also going to offer a course called ’global perspectives on culture’, which will introduce all our students to art and literature from all cultures in the world.

The goal here is that for all of our students, we want them to be prepared to be internationally effective, to have the skills they need to work with partners from different cultures from all around the world."

Yu Lizhong, chancellor of NYU Shanghai, says, "The annual tuition fee for each student from the Chinese mainland will be around 100,000 yuan. The city’s pricing authorities will announce more specific numbers later."

The university plans a student to faculty ratio of eight to one, or double the average in Chinese universities. It says an undergraduate could spend as many as 3 of the 8 semesters at some of NYU’s other campuses in nearly a dozen cities around the world, including Abu Dhabi, London and its main campus in New York. Graduating students will get their degrees both from New York University itself and NYU Shanghai.