Yamaguchi Prefectural University

Reporter
World University Rankings 2024
201+
Japan University Rankings 2023
Reporter
Asia University Rankings 2023
3-2-1 Sakurabatake, Yamaguchi city, Yamaguchi, 753-8502, Japan

About Yamaguchi Prefectural University

Yamaguchi Prefectural University (YPU) is in the city of Yamaguchi in the western part of Japan’s main island, established in 1975 as a non-profit public university and becoming coeducational in 1996.

The university has 1,300 students and 120 full-time teaching staff over three faculties, five departments and two postgraduate courses. The faculties are the international culture faculty, the faculty of social welfare and the faculty of nursing and nutrition.

YPU offers a special programme for students coming to Japan for the first time, called Yamaguchi Abroad. Its curriculum includes Japanese language study, the traditional arts of flower arrangement and tea ceremony, courses in English about Japanese culture and society, and four courses that make up the Yamaguchi Studies programme.

Yamaguchi Studies is comprised of a collection of four courses covering the history, culture, crafts and people of Yamaguchi. Each course features a combination of in-class and on-location parts, taking students into local culture and history.

The university also offers an international exchange programme for students and staff as well as a three-week Global Student Exchange programme in the summer.

The university is well connected to the main cities of Japan: it is one and a half hours by plane or approximately five hours by bullet train from Tokyo. It takes three hours to get to Kyoto via bullet train. It is about half an hour from Fukuoka by bullet train.

The city of Yamaguchi is connected to Kyushu by a bridge that runs over the Kamon Straights.

Explore rankings data for Yamaguchi Prefectural University

All ranked institutions have an overall score and 4 pillar scores. However for each pillar, only institutions ranked in the top 500 overall or the top 500 in this pillar have a publicly visible score

Compare universities on their key stats

Key statistics

  • 16.2
    No. of students per staff
    (1)
  • 2%
    Percentage of International Students
    (1)
  • 1,361
    Number of FTE Students
    (1)
  • 2%
    Proportion of ISR Publication
    (1)
  • 87 : 13
    Student Ratio of Females to Males
    (1)
  • ¥1,694
    Finance per Student (¥000s)
    (2)
Based on data collected for the (1) 2024 World University Rankings and (2) 2023 Japan University Rankings

Subjects taught at Yamaguchi Prefectural University

  • Life sciences

    • Agriculture & Forestry
  • Clinical, pre-clinical & health

    • Other Health
  • Social sciences

    • Sociology