A logo of New York University Shanghai (NYU Shanghai) is seen at its campus in the Lujiazui Financial District in Pudong, Shanghai. [Photo/IC]

New York University Shanghai recently announced that students from 84 countries and regions have gained admission into their 2021 intake.

Each class of NYU Shanghai undergraduates has an almost equal mix of Chinese and international students who are mainly from the United States.

This year, about 45 percent of international students admitted came from countries other than the United States, such as India, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Pakistan.

Despite the COVID-19 epidemic, the university received a record number of applications from 18,713 students from about 155 countries, an increase of 12 percent compared to last year.

The number of applicants from countries other than China and the United States has surged by 53 percent. Applicants from the United States, where most of the international applicants are from, grew by 6 percent.

NYU Shanghai is China's first Sino-US research university and the third degree-granting campus of the NYU Global Network. It was founded in 2012 by New York University and East China Normal University with the support of the city of Shanghai and the district of Pudong. Its faculty of renowned scholars, innovators, and educators are recruited from the world's best research universities.