5 Facts About NYU

1. In 2006, NYU was named by Kaplan as one of the "New Ivies".

2. In 2014, NYU received $524 million in research grants from the National Science Foundation alone.

3. In 2007, NYU created a strategic plan for a six billion dollar 25 year, 6,000,000-square-foot expansion scheduled to conclude by the universities bicentennial in 2031.

4. In 2011, NYU announced plans to open another portal campus, New York University Shanghai, for the fall semester of 2013.

5. In 1950, NYU was elected to the Association of American Universities, a nonprofit organization of leading public and private research universities.