@Sue22, 20% of the students are at these campuses and that has built up over time, so that certainly explains a portion of the 100% increase in applicants over the last the 10 years.
Yale - NUS seems to be increasing in stature, tho I don’t know why.
Leaving 80%. I think its likely that the Abu Dhabi and Shanghai programs are an explanation for why NYU is hot right now and has experienced a 50% increase in applications in the last 4 years alone.
Re: NYU
There was also a bump in 2014 when NYU completed the acquisition of Polytechnic University (which was known as Polytechnic Institute of NYU from 2008 to 2013 during the merger process, became NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering in 2014, and is currently known as the NYU Tandon School of Engineering), so that engineering applicants applied to NYU instead of to the still-separate PU/PINYU before 2014.
The 2013 to 2014 bump (the PU year) was from 48,500 to 52,000.
The attached should answer a lot of questions for the NYU NYC campuses only. Undergraduate population increased by at least 4,000, or 18% (that data only goes back to 2012, so likely 5,000 or 24%).
While the admit rate has dropped from 38% to 28% since 2010, that’s not inconsistent with others. Furthermore, yield rate has remained flat at 35%.
As the list of millionaires and billionaires grow, NYU will continue to rise in popularity. It’s a huge draw for domestic and international full pay aristocrats because of the location in the wealthiest island in America.
Brown, by far.