Yamagata University


Yamagata University 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.
In addition, YU is ranked the tenth place 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
The university was established in 1949, but its origin can be traced back to the Yamagata Normal School, a public teacher-training institution, founded in 1878 in Yamagata City.
The university also has other roots: the Yonezawa Higher Technical School founded in 1910 in Yonezawa City, the Yamagata Higher School founded in 1920 in Yamagata City, the Yamagata Youth Normal School founded in 1922 in Yamagata City, and the Yamagata Prefectural Agricultural College 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.

History

The Imperial Japan Government decided to merge the "old" Yamagata, Okitama, and Tsuruoka Prefectures into one new Yamagata Prefecture in August 1876. Each of the former three prefectures had its own normal schools, but these were closed with the discontinuance of their administrative bodies. The direct institutional history dates back to 1877 when the Congress of new Yamagata Prefecture authorized an establishment of a new public teacher-training institution, Yamagata Prefectural Normal School, which was founded in September 1878 in Hatago-machi, Yamagata City.
Meanwhile, Yonezawa Higher Technical School, the first national school of higher education in the prefecture, was founded in 1910. The institute was the seventh National Higher Technical School in Japan following the establishment of Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Kumamoto, and Sendai Higher Technical Schools. It was renamed the Yonezawa Engineering College under reformation of the law in 1944.
Ten years after the establishment of the Yonezawa Higher Technical School, another national school of higher education was founded in Yamagata Prefecture, Yamagata Higher School, located in Yamagata City and the 14th national higher school in Japan.
During World War II, the United States' bombers destroyed the Komagome laboratories of the Japanese science research institute RIKEN, and it was evacuated to several local cities as the situation worsened.
One of the evacuations sites was Yamagata Higher School.
The National Yonezawa Higher Technical School and Yamagata Higher School were both prestigious schools at the time and played a central role when Yamagata University was established after World War II. The two schools produced a number of exceptional graduates, and alumni numbered about 5,500 and 5,000, respectively.
To meet the growing needs of primary and secondary education, Yamagata Prefecture founded one more public teacher-training institution, the Yamagata Prefectural Teacher's School for Vocational Supplementary Education, in 1922.
The school developed and was renamed the Yamagata Youth Teachers School when control was transferred to the Japanese at the time and his appointment attracted much criticism for being a case of amakudari, a corrupt practice the government had vowed to stamp out.

List of events

Campuses and colleges

Yamagata University has four main campuses, Yamagata-Kojirakawa, Yamagata-Iida, Yonezawa and Tsuruoka.
Approximately 10,000 students are enrolled, including 177 international students.
Yamagata-Matsunami Campus has no research facility except for Teacher Training Research Center; there exists University K-9 schools.
Also the university has the Tokyo Satellite Center.

Campuses

Yamagata University consists of six faculties:
Yamagata University consists of six graduate schools and a united graduate course:
Yamagata University is affiliated with 48 universities and institutes in 18 countries. The University maintains international exchange agreements with 25 institutions in nine different countries.

Inter-University Agreement

Inter-Faculty Agreement

Notable people and alumni