Yamagata University

Yamagata University

山形大学
The main Building of the Faculty of Engineering (ex- The Yonezawa Higher Technical School) built in 1910 is still in use as a University Museum.
Motto	"Act Globally, Base Locally"
Type	Public (National)
Established	1878 (1949)
Endowment	US$320 million (FY2006)
President	Kiyohito Koyama
Academic staff	777 (2007)
Administrative staff	1,834 (2007)
Students	9073 (2015)[1]
Undergraduates	7586 (2015)
Postgraduates	1287 (2015)
Other students	200 (International, 2015)
Address	1-4-12 Kojirakawa-machi, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan (Yamagata Campus) 2-2-2 Iida-nishi, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan (Iida Campus) 4-3-16 Jonan, Yonezawa 992-8510, Japan (Yonezawa Campus) 1–23 Wakaba-machi, Tsuruoka 997-8555, Japan (Tsuruoka Campus) 3-3-6-503 Shibaura, Minato, Tokyo 108-0023, Japan (Tokyo Center) , Yamagata, Yonezawa, Tsuruoka , Yamagata , Japan 38°15′16″N 140°20′53″E / 38.254444°N 140.348056°E / 38.254444; 140.348056
Campus	8.47 km2 (2,094 acres)
Colours	Green
Nickname	YU, Yamadai
Website	www.yamagata-u.ac.jp
Japan Yamagata Prefecture

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Yamagata University (YU) (山形大学, Yamagata daigaku) is a national university located in the Japanese cities of Yamagata, Yonezawa, and Tsuruoka in Yamagata Prefecture.

The Times Higher Education released World University Rankings 2016–2017. Yamagata University ranked 600-800th out of the top 980 universities in the world.^[2]

In addition, YU is ranked the tenth place (10th) in Japanese research organization ranking, announcement in April 2017, by the analysis of the number of the highly cited papers in a "Materials Science" field alone in the Japanese local national university. Ranking by Thomson Reuters^[3][4]

The university was established in 1949, but its origin can be traced back to the Yamagata Normal School (山形師範学校, Yamagata Shihan Gakkō), a public teacher-training institution, founded in 1878 in Yamagata City. The university also has other roots: the Yonezawa Higher Technical School (米沢高等工業学校, Yonezawa Kōtō Kōgyō Gakkō) founded in 1910 in Yonezawa City, the Yamagata Higher School (山形高等学校, Yamagata Kōtō Gakkō) founded in 1920 in Yamagata City, the Yamagata Youth Normal School (山形青年師範学校, Yamagata Seinen Shihan Gakkō) founded in 1922 in Yamagata City, and the Yamagata Prefectural Agricultural College (山形県立農林専門学校, Yamagata Kenritsu Nōrin Senmon Gakkō) founded in 1947 in Tsuruoka City.

Yamagata University is the second-largest university in the Tohoku Region. The university has six faculties and about 10,000 students in four campuses. It also has an additional subcampus in which University K-9 schools are administered.