Graduate School of Engineering (Master’s Course) is established.
(Non-degree graduate course of Engineering is broken up.)

Faculty of Literature & Social Sciences, Faculty of Science, and Division of General Education are established.
(Faculty of Literature and Sciences is reorganized.)

Graduate School of Agriculture (Master’s Course) is established. 
(Non-degree graduate course of Agriculture is broken up.)

Non-degree graduate course of Humanities is established.

Faculty of Medicine is established.
(Develops into a general university which contains 6 Faculties and Division of General Education.)

Graduate School of Science (Master’s Course) is established.(Non-degree graduate course of Science is broken up.)
Graduate School of Medicine (Doctoral Course) is established.

Night Course (Course B) is established in the Faculty of Engineering.
(Former “Junior College of Engineering” is reorganized.)

Graduate School of Education (Master’s Course) is established. (Non-degree graduate course of Education is broken up.)
Graduate School of Engineering (Doctoral Course) is established.
(Graduate School of Engineering (Master’s Course) is reorganized.)

Division of General Education is broken up.

Graduate School of Social and Cultural Systems is established. (Non-degree graduate course of Humanities is broken up.)
Graduate School of Medicine is renamed Graduate School of Medical Science.

Graduate School of Engineering and Graduate School of Science are merged and renamed Graduate School of Science and Engineering.
(Graduate School of Science is broken up.)

Yamagata University becomes a national university corporation under the National University Corporation Act.

Faculty of Education, Art and Science is established.
(Faculty of Education is reorganized.)

Professional School of Education (Professional Degree Program; Professional School for Teacher Education) and Graduate School of Regional Education and Culture (Master’s Course) are established.

Institute of Arts and Sciences is established.

Graduate School of Organic Materials Science is established.(Graduate School of Science and Engineering is reorganized.)

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is established. (Faculty of Literature and Social Sciences is reorganized.)
Institute of Arts and Sciences is reorganized.

Graduate School of Creative Studies in Society and Culture (Master’s Course) is established.
(Graduate School of Social and Cultural Systems and Graduate School of Regional Education, Art and Science are reorganized.)