Its ranking among Asian universities:

QS Asian University 20 15 Ranking 145.

QS Asian University 20 13 Ranking 125.

Time Asia University ranked 96th in 20 13.

Yokohama National University (YNU) is a research-oriented national comprehensive university headquartered in Anshi Valley, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. There are about 1000 staff and about 10000 students, including about 7,500 undergraduates and 2,500 graduate students. Founded in 1947, it is a new university reformed from four pre-war government educational institutions, including Yokohama Institute of Economics, Yokohama Institute of Technology, Kanagawa Normal School and Kanagawa Youth Normal School. Through a series of reorganization of departments and universities, it has developed into a comprehensive university with four departments and five research departments.

Most graduates of Yokohama National University can enter the upper-class enterprises in Japanese society, which makes the school's entrance competition rise every year. As an important education center for the financial industry, the Department of Economics and the Department of Management are very difficult to enter, and they can be called famous families in the capital circle, ranking in the top 20 in Japan for many years. Yokohama National University has produced many famous architects, among which Nishizawa Ryue won the 20 10 Pritzker Award, which is the highest honor in the world of architecture.