NYU Abu Dhabi

Majors and Minors

NYUAD’s liberal arts education teaches you to ask difficult questions, discover new ideas, and build practical skills to become an expert in your own field — whatever that may be.

Core Curriculum

Core courses address major global challenges, including the pursuit of equality, justice, peace, health, sustainability, and a rich understanding of humanity.

Academic Calendar

Check the calendar for important dates and events happening in 2018-19.

Featured Research

Research at NYU Abu Dhabi deepens our understanding of the world and ourselves.

Climate

Watch 10 billion tons of ice fall into the ocean.

Culture

Bedouin poets used to memorize thousands of verses because books were too heavy to carry around the desert.

Societies

Are the rich more selfish than the poor? The answer might surprise you.

Health

Is our environment contributing to fatty liver disease?

Campus Tour

See where we learn, work, live, and play.

Student Stories

Tatyana Brown, US

Every student has a story. This is Tatyana’s.

Asma Alabbar, UAE

“We come from all over the world with so many different backgrounds."

Jack Adeney, UK

The heat is a shock when you’re from England.

News

Glimpse into the Past

NYU Abu Dhabi unveils 137 rarely seen photographs from the private collection of His Excellency Zaki Nusseibeh.

Schwarzman Scholars

A pair of NYU Abu Dhabi seniors have been selected to the 2020 cohort of Schwarzman Scholars, one of the world’s most prestigious graduate fellowships.

Research Reframed

The UAE’s Minister of Advanced Sciences explores what’s new in research the 2018 NYU Abu Dhabi Research Conference.

Ride for Zayed

100 riders join NYU Abu Dhabi's inaugural Ride for Zayed event.

Upcoming Events

NYU Abu Dhabi offers a lively forum for the exchange of ideas with local audiences as well as worldwide academic and research communities.

How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog

Talk
January 21, 2019
6:30-8pm

NYUAD Campus, Conference Center

For the last six decades, a dedicated team of researchers in Siberia has been domesticating silver foxes to replay the evolution of the dog in real time.