Yokohama National University

Yokohama National University

横浜国立大学; Yokohama Kokuritsu Daigaku
Type	Public
Established	1876
President	Yuichi Hasebe
Undergraduates	7,471
Postgraduates	2,561
Location	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan 35°28′26″N 139°35′24″E / 35.474°N 139.59°E / 35.474; 139.59
Website	Official website
Japan Kanagawa Prefecture

Yokohama National University (横浜国立大学, Yokohama Kokuritsu Daigaku^?), or Yokokoku (横国^?) is a leading national university located in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Yokohama National University comprises five graduate schools and four undergraduate faculties. Yokohama National University is one of leading national universities in Japan. It is consistently one of the highest ranking national universities in Japan that is not one of Japan's National Seven Universities. It is also a core member of the Port-City University League.

The predecessor of the school was founded in 1876. It became a Japanese national university in 1949 by the amalgamation of Kanagawa Normal School, Kanagawa Youth Normal School, Yokohama College of Economics and the Yokohama Institute of Technology. The Faculty of Business Administration was founded in 1967. The university has master's degree programs in engineering (1962), economics (1972), business administration (1972), and education (1979). The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology was established in 1973 under the botanist Akira Miyawaki, and the Graduate School of International and Business Law was established in 1990. The Graduate School of International Development Studies was created in 1994 and the School of Law in 2004.

Originally it was planned to name as "Yokohama University", but at that time the previous Yokohama City Economics College and private Yokohama Vocational School also wanted to apply their names as Yokohama University. They had a consultation about the name and decided not to use name "Yokohama University".