Another major milestone in ECNU's history is its co-founding of NYU Shanghai with New York University in 2012. NYU Shanghai is the first Sino-US research university in China and the third degree-granting campus of NYU.
Zhu Huili, assistant director of the research center at the NYU Shanghai Scientific Research Office, said that the joint-venture university has facilitated the formation of joint research centers dedicated to areas like mathematical sciences, brain and cognitive science, physics, computational chemistry and social development.
Over 1,000 original scientific research papers from these centers were published in leading journals over the past five years, said Zhu. In addition, more than 40 percent of the current population of professors are international scholars.
"The joint research institutes have grown into magnets to gather the world's top scholars. For example, Nobel laureate in economics Thomas Sargent joined the research institute of mathematical sciences in September," she said.
