Fall 2025 Resource Page

Campus access will begin following Fall 2025 graduate student orientation. Students may not access NYU Shanghai prior to orientation.

Campus access is only open to students who:

• are enrolled in NYU Shanghai graduate programs or the semester study away program;
• complete all required pre-orientation protocols; and attend orientation.

Semester study away students must take and continue in all Shanghai courses offered with their program to maintain their registration and campus access; once your study away semester has started, you may not drop them.

Fall 2025 graduate student orientation will take place on Friday, August 29, at the NYU Shanghai New Bund Campus (567 West Yangsi Road). Please understand that parents are restricted from attending orientation.

Yes. Students who do not attend orientation will not gain campus access.

Semester study away courses begin the week of September 1 and are scheduled at the NYU Shanghai New Bund Campus. Classroom times and locations can be seen in Albert.

Fall 2025 semester study away classes will begin the week of September 1 by default and end following the week of December 12. Holidays will be observed for the National Day Holiday/Mid-Autumn Festival (September 29–October 6), and Thanksgiving (November 27–28). The full Fall semester calendar, including additional holidays and legislative days, can be accessed at https://shanghai.nyu.edu/academics/calendar#fall-2025.

Please note NYU Shanghai’s Academic Calendar is independent from NYU New York’s Academic Calendar. If you are taking NYU New York courses remotely, those courses will be on NYU New York’s Academic Calendar. Note that on November 2, daylight saving time ends, meaning that clocks are turned backward by one hour in the United States.

If you have not done so, upload your photo to photoid.nyu.edu. Your ID card will be distributed by NYU Shanghai during orientation.

The Jingyao Residence Halls are located at 533 Jiming Road in the Houtan area. The NYU Shanghai New Bund Campus is 3 kilometers away or about a 10-minute drive.

At NYU Shanghai, living in on-campus housing is not mandatory for graduate students. Unoccupied rooms in NYU Shanghai’s undergraduate residential facility might be offered to graduate students on a space-available basis. Just like they would in New York, many graduate students will desire the flexibility to find and arrange their own off-campus housing. The city of Shanghai features an abundance of housing options to suit various lifestyles and budgets.

NYU Shanghai Campus Safety organizes a regular shuttle bus service between the Jingyao Residence Hall and the campus during the academic semester. These buses typically operate from 7:30 AM to 11:00 PM. The regular shuttle bus schedule will be announced at the beginning of each semester by the Department of Campus Safety.

Students who are Chinese Nationals or Mainland entry permit holders from Macau, Taiwan, or Hong Kong should not require university documentation to clear immigration and gain entry to China. 

All other students can apply for Chinese visas with the support of the NYU Office of Global Services (OGS) and NYU Shanghai Office of Student Mobility.

OGS in New York will initiate the visa process, collecting all immigration documents from students and passing them to the Shanghai Student Mobility team. Shanghai Student Mobility will then work with the local Chinese embassy/consulate to process and send documents back to OGS.

Incoming international students will need to hold a passport valid for at least 6 months for entry. Students are advised to begin their visa application at their earliest convenience but no more than 90 days before the start of the Fall semester since the visa processing time may vary from country to country. International students who are traveling to Shanghai are advised to contact OGS in New York directly. They are also welcomed to contact the Shanghai team via shanghai.student-mobility@nyu.edu.

Participating students should apply to Get a US Visa at least 3-4 months before the start of the Spring semester so that they can have their immigration documents to travel to New York after the Fall semester at NYU Shanghai concludes. If you already have your I-20 and need it updated to reflect your Spring  2025 entry to the US, please submit the Entry Plan eform so OGS can adjust your document.

Tuition will be the same whether you study in New York City or in Shanghai. 

Students may only complete one semester (their first semester) at NYU Shanghai with the remainder of their degree to be completed in New York starting with the Spring term. Studying at NYU Shanghai may only be undertaken in one’s first semester. There is no option to study at NYU Shanghai in subsequent terms.

Yes, students who require a student visa to study in the United States will be able to apply for OPT / CPT. Two academic-year semesters (Fall / Spring) in the United States are required on a F-1 visa before one can qualify for off campus employment. Thus, if you participate in MOT Global, your first semester of eligibility for off campus employment would be Spring 2027, following enrollment in Spring 2026 and Fall 2026 as your two academic-year semesters in the United States.