Yamaguchi University

Yamaguchi University, founded in 1949 is the third oldest national comprehensive university in Japan and is formed by integrating six public schools in the Yamaguchi Prefecture – the Yamaguchi Higher School, the Yamaguchi College of Economics, the Ube Technical College, the Yamaguchi Normal School, the Yamaguchi Youth Normal School and the Yamaguchi College of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry. Its wide range of courses is organized in the faculties of humanities, education, economics, science, and agriculture, in the campus of Yamaguchi, and medicine and engineering in Ube.

The university has been ranked by different organizations. In the year 2018, according to Best Global University Ranking, it was ranked 1106th in the world and according to Top Universities; its rank is 701st worldwide in the year 2019. More so, the Times Higher Education ranked the university in different classes as 1001+ according to World University Rankings in 2019, 251-300th according to Asia University Rankings in 2018, and 39th according to Japan University Rankings in 2018.