Sino-US university to open

The country's first Sino-US higher education institute - New York University Shanghai - will start to admit undergraduate students in 2013, sources from the university said on Thursday.

The university was co-established by New York University in the United States and East China Normal University, and was approved by the Ministry of Education in early 2011.

According to the enrollment plan, about 300 undergraduate students will be selected from across the world in the autumn semester of 2013, with Chinese students making up 51 percent of the intake.