Academics

Through experiential research projects, NYU undergraduates are exploring global challenges and building a more sustainable future.

Discover what it's like to study away as an NYU Presidential Honors Scholar in Florence. From immersive research opportunities to global learning and cultural exploration, "Postcards from NYU Florence" shares firsthand insights into academic growth, leadership, and life as a scholar abroad.

At NYU, undergraduates are improving human health, well-being, and care across the globe through hands-on research projects.

The NYU Shanghai course Language and Power sparked Margaret’s love of applied linguistics and inspired a research presentation.

NYU Tandon students create and shape innovations that change the future of health care through an engineering mindset.

Want to take part in meaningful lab, field, and studio work as an undergraduate student? At NYU, research opportunities abound.

Discover the NYU experience through five defining moments—from lifelong friendships to Broadway nights, studying abroad, and writing an honors thesis. Elena offers up a personal reflection on growth, resilience, and the unique education the city provides.

Every year, NYU Tandon’s Concrete Canoe team design and build a canoe made from the unlikeliest of materials as an engineering challenge.

NYU Shanghai Junior Yolanda Huang dove into research during her time in an intensive eight-week Amgen Scholars Program.

Here, students have access to unique resources—from labs and studios to mentors and makerspaces—to help them achieve their goals.

In the class Manus et Machina, NYU Abu Dhabi students envision the future in a class where they design and build their own machine.

NYU student Andrea Durham's writing class sparked her research career, leading her to Alzheimer’s research at Mount Sinai and beyond.