About 500 students will take part in the first round of admission interviews in March for Shanghai New York University, the country's first Sino-US higher education institute.

The 500 Chinese students are from 10 provinces and municipalities, including the Yangtze River delta region, Beijing, Sichuan, Henan and Shandong provinces, according to NYU Shanghai.

They will participate in campus day activities in March in Shanghai and will be interviewed at that time.

NYU Shanghai was officially founded in October 2012, and will get its first 300 students in the fall of 2013 from across the world.

According to the enrollment plan, 151 students will be from the Chinese mainland and 149 from the rest of the world. Applicants from the Chinese mainland will be selected via a combination of the country's national college entrance exams and the university's selection methods. International students will be selected through NYU's global system.