Yokohama National University, referred to as Yokohama National University, Yokogawa and YNU for short, is a comprehensive national university with its headquarters located in An Chuan District, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. It is the only national university in Japan with the word "national" and one of the "thousand public universities" in the four countries in the capital circle, enjoying a high teaching and social reputation.

Yokohama National University aims to cultivate small-scale and multi-directional social elites. Its graduates rank second in Japan in the personnel evaluation rankings of Nikkei enterprises, sixth in the number of presidents of listed enterprises, and fourth in the proportion of every 10,000 graduates.

Yokohama National University has a world-class architecture department and many famous architects have been born. Among them, Nishizawa Riwei and sister island Heshi won the 20 10 Pritzker Award, which is the highest honor in the world of architecture and the only Japanese university except Tokyo University.

Academic exchange activities:

Yokohama National University has established inter-school exchange agreements with more than 65,438+040 universities in 42 countries, inter-departmental exchange agreements with 36 universities and 40 departments in 65,438+08 countries, and established overseas alumni associations in Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing and San Francisco. Yokohama National University is a founding member and secretariat of the World Alliance of Port Cities Universities.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yokohama National University