Program Overview

Global Education

Global Education is an essential component of NYU Abu Dhabi's educational mission and curriculum. It is realized through a careful sequence of interrelated academic and intercultural experiences over four years that foster greater intercultural understanding towards social responsibility globally and locally.

J-Term

J-Term courses are designed as highly immersive learning experiences that take place during the year. Intellectually linked to their locations, J-Term takes advantage of local resources; explore the history, culture, economy, and society of the host communities. The courses illuminate the interdependence of local knowledge and global awareness while fostering cross-cultural research and insights into complex global issues.

Semester Abroad

Students may spend up to two semesters of their NYUAD education studying abroad in NYU's Global Network of academic centers.

Summer Experiential Learning Abroad

During the summer, undergraduate students are able to engage in full-time research and internships in world-class institutions around the world. This gives students the opportunity to hone their research skills by becoming active investigators who demonstrate creativity and learn the ability to tackle new and exciting challenges.

Community-Based Global Learning

Through Community-based Learning Programs in the UAE, NYU Abu Dhabi guides students in reading and engaging with the dynamic text of the real world.

Program Statistics

• 1700+ Students took J-Term Courses Abroad
  • Immersive and concentrated experiences in the UAE and abroad
• 700+ Students took a Semester Abroad
• 500+ Students took Summer Research and Internships Abroad
• 30 Countries

NYU's Global Academic Centers

NYU's global academic centers complement the three portal campuses, allowing students to study away for a semester or longer at a site of their choice. Each site offers a range of courses, permitting students to complete core requirements as well as co-curricular activities to explore the region, meet local students and figures, and use new language skills and is characterized by a distinct academic identity.

• Accra
• Berlin
• Buenos Aires
• Florence
• London
• Los Angeles
• Madrid
• New York
• Paris
• Prague
• Shanghai
• Sydney
• Tel Aviv
• Tulsa
• Washington, DC

Faculty

The January Term courses are taught by renowned scholars, writers, artists, journalists, and policy analysts, who teach only during the J-Term, as well as distinguished professors from NYU, NYUAD, and other leading universities.

• David Cameron, Former British Prime Minister
• Ghazi Al Mulaifi, Grammy-Nominated Musician
• Ouided Bouchamaoui, Nobel Laureate

Engineers for Social Impact

Engineers for Social Impact supports and complements the mission of the Engineering Division and the broad goals of NYU Abu Dhabi through courses that emphasize experiential learning and projects that develop globally-relevant, locally-sustainable designs to meet challenges and deliver on opportunities that enable individuals across global communities to more effectively realize their aspirations and ambitions.