There are differences in nature, predecessor and department setup between yokohama city university and Yokohama National University.
1. school nature: yokohama city university is a public university with its headquarters in yokohama, kanagawa prefecture. This school is a small-scale elite university in Japan, which is famous for its small enrollment and strict admission. Yokohama National University is a well-known top research-oriented comprehensive national university in Japan, headquartered in Baotu Valley, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is the only school with the word "national" among all national universities in Japan.
2. In front of the school: Yokohama Commercial Law School 1882 was established in yokohama city university, and 1949 was transformed into yokohama city university. Yokohama National University, formerly known as Yokohama Normal School, was founded in 1876 and is one of the oldest universities in Japan.
3. About the setup of departments: The departments in yokohama city university mainly include Medical Department, Science Department, Data Science Department, International Education Department and International Business Department. The departments of Yokohama National University mainly include the Department of Education and Humanities, the Department of Economics, the Department of Management, the Department of Science and Technology and the Department of Urban Studies.
Supplementary materials:
University is a kind of school that implements higher education, including comprehensive universities, colleges and universities. Universities are organizations with unique functions, institutions of higher learning that inherit, research, integrate and innovate advanced academic knowledge, and are interrelated with social, economic and political systems. It is not only the product of the development of human culture to a certain stage, but also a unique culture gradually formed on the basis of long-term school-running practice through historical accumulation, self-efforts and external environmental influence.