Bandar Baru Nilai has become a popular shopping town with the establishment of several major shopping malls such as Nilai 3 Wholesale Centre, Nilai Square, Mydin, Giant Hypermarket, Lotus's, MesaMall and ÆON Mall Nilai.
An initiative by the state government to turn Negri Sembilan into an educational hub [citation needed] has also borne fruit as several foreign and local institutions of higher education have agreed to set up operations here.
The state would also benefit from the construction of the RM1.2 bil Education Ministry complex which would, among others, house the Aminuddin Baki Institute, Institut Pendidikan Guru, English Language Institute, Tunku Kurshiah College and Nilai Polytechnic as well as the International Islamic University Malaysia’s medical faculty and the International University College of Nursing.