NYU is moving forward with its plans to copy us and set up shop in the quickly-changing city of Shanghai. Like the school's outpost in Abu Dhabi, NYU Shanghai will be run in conjunction with a partner institution, East China Normal University, won't be funded by NYU and has hopes that a majority of its 3,000 students will be Chinese, not American. Students will be required to study at least one semester abroad. It aims to open as soon as Fall 2013. We just hope it doesn't turn out like some other institution's attempts to branch out to that region...