BlackburnRovers wrote:The NYU is a reasonably ranked private university in the US, not one of the major players by any way...
An important question is whether they will offer need blind admission, as top US private schools do, or will the Abu Dhabi campus be simply a cashcow ?
Valid point..seldom have major universities who've ventured beyond their borders been able to re-create the brilliance and excellance of the parent university. Most often these universities operate as lower ranked subsidaries, thriving on the parents name. Their only purpose of diversifying being to make money, and to offset the differences caused back home due to grants and subsidies.
That said off all the foreign universities here, NYU in Abu-Dhabi looks very promising and will probably take the bation of premier university from the other American Universities operating here.
Hopefully they'll set a standard and create a platform for a mesh of culturalism and intellect, NYU is so renowned for.