With the aim of strengthening the cooperation between the University of Novi Sad and the universities in the People's Republic of China and making the educational and scientific offer of the University of Novi Sad more accessible to students, professors and researchers from China, the University launched a version of its website in the Chinese language.

UNS has appeared on the Shanghai Ranking for the first time as one of the top 150 in Food Science and Technology, as well as among the top 500 in Mathematics.

The University of Novi Sad organized the Interdisciplinary Summer School for Chinese Students from 20th to 30th May 2017. The School offered lectures in a wide variety of subjects so as to give students an introduction to Serbia and Southeast Europe. The lectures were held by teaching staff from the Faculty of Philosophy, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Sciences and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Novi Sad on topics in the fields of history, politics (including changes in Southeast Europe since the breakup of Yugoslavia), culture, religion, literature, business and economics in Serbia, the legal system of the Republic of Serbia and the European Union, as well as the gastronomy of Serbia and Southeast Europe.

The students of the University of Novi Sad won the second place at the International competition in Robotics EUROBOT 2017 held in France, 24-28 May, 2017.