New York University Shanghai recently welcomed this year's class of 455 freshmen, the most students to enroll since the founding of the school in 2012.

Half of the Class of 2022 is from China, including the first students to enroll from Northwest China's Qinghai province and Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region.

The other half is represented by students from 38 countries including the US, UK, the Netherlands, Ethiopia, Ecuador, South Korea, Russia, Poland, Germany, Mexico, Kazakhstan and Honduras.