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 (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 The university was established in 1949, but its origin can be traced back to the , a public teacher-training institution, founded in 1878 in Yamagata City. The university also has other roots: the founded in 1910 in Yonezawa City, the founded in 1920 in Yamagata City, the founded in 1922 in Yamagata City, and the founded in 1947 in Tsuruoka City.