We are excited to welcome the Class of 2025 to our global community of more than 3,000 NYU Shanghai alumni and nearly 700,000 NYU alumni worldwide. As you join our alumni network, this information will help you get started.
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Your NYU email address is a lifetime email, however, if you would like to receive NYU Shanghai emails in your other inboxes, you can change your email address here. It helps you stay in touch with the school and keep up to date with the latest events and happenings within the global alumni community.
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We love to keep up with all the changes and happenings in your life. Whether you’ve moved to a new city, picked up a new hobby, met up with a fellow alum, or experienced a new milestone in your life, we want to hear all about it.
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On May 11th, more than 70 NYU Shanghai alumni joined Chancellor Tong Shijun for dinner at NYU’s campus in New York. Chancellor Tong shared the latest updates and achievements of the university, discussed Shanghai’s urban development, and engaged in in-depth conversations with the alumni. Graduates spanning eight cohorts—from the classes of 2017 to 2024—seized the opportunity to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones, reminisce about their time on campus and share their post-graduation journeys.
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On Sunday, May 25, NYU Shanghai’s Class of 2025 walked across the stage at NYU Shanghai’s New Bund campus in the University’s ninth commencement ceremony. Over 400 graduating seniors hailing from 44 countries, including 226 Chinese students from 25 provinces across China, received bachelor’s degrees from NYU and diplomas from NYU Shanghai.
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Words of Wisdom for the Grads
NYU Shanghai Chancellor Tong Shijun, Vice Chancellor Jeffrey Lehman, and Provost Joanna Waley-Cohen shared their good wishes and passed on words of advice for the graduating class. This year’s commencement speaker, world-renowned pianist Kong Xiangdong, encouraged the graduates to think of themselves as “composers” of their own lives.
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Student Speakers
NYU Provost Georgina Dopico introduced Sam Kominowski and Shao Yanrui, who addressed the Class of 2025 together. At the Degree Awarding Ceremonies, the three deans spoke, along with student speakers Elisabeth Cabanas Monfort, Travis Liu Tanruizhi, and Xu Zihan.
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In this tribute video, members of the Class of 2025 reflect on shared memories, what they’ll miss the most about their university years, and offer their congratulatory wishes to their fellow classmates.
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Commencement Celebrations
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NYU Shanghai is delighted to announce a one-week, certificate course taught in-person by NYU Steinhardt Professor Jan Plass. The course, titled The Future of Learning with Innovative Media, will take place between August 2 to 10 and be scheduled on weekends and evenings. Offered through the new Open Courses program, an educational pathway for learners of all backgrounds to take courses taught by distinguished NYU faculty on a non-degree basis, this course presents a unique opportunity to experience immersive study on campus again. All alumni are welcome. Questions can be directed to shanghai.opencourses@nyu.edu.
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Gifts from NYU Shanghai alumni, parents, and friends will shape the future of this truly unique university for years to come. Contributions to the NYU Shanghai Education Development Foundation open doors to new possibilities, impact young lives, sustain communities with a global reach, and support research initiatives.
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