East China Normal University - International Partnerships

International Partnerships

ECNU attaches great importance to the internationalization in its development and enjoys a wide influence and reputation in the world. The university has established strategic cooperative partnership with many world-renowned universities, such as ENS Group in France, the University of Pennsylvania and New York University in USA, Tokyo University and Kobe University in Japan, and the University of Melbourne in Australia, etc., and has been carrying out academic exchanges with over 150 universities and institutions of Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, the United States, Canada, Australia, Korea, and Russia, etc. ECNU plays host to a CIEE satellite campus, where 100 American college students study abroad each semester. It set up the study and training base for international Chinese teacher under the Office of Chinese language.

• In 2002 the ÉNS Paris and the ENS Lyon set up a Master’s-PhD programme at the East China Normal University in Shanghai. An ENS campus is housed within the ECNU at the Aspiring Researchers Institute and at the Franco-Chinese Advanced Studies Institute.

• In 2007, the EMLYON Business School opened the official EMLYON Asia Campus in the heart of the ECNU campus.

• In 2008, the Cornell-ECNU Center for Cross-Cultural Studies was jointly funded by Cornell University and ECNU.

• China's first Sino-American university — New York University Shanghai (NYU Shanghai) — was co-established by New York University and East China Normal University, and was approved by the Ministry of Education in early 2011.