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History of Yamagata University

May., 1949 Yamagata University starts with four Faculties: Faculty of Literature and Science, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Agriculture.
Apr., 1954 Non-degree graduate course of Engineering and Junior College of Engineering are established.
Apr., 1959 Non-degree graduate course of Education and Non-degree graduate course of Agriculture are established.
Apr., 1964

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

Jun., 1967

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

Apr., 1970

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

Apr., 1971 Non-degree graduate course of Science is established.
Apr., 1972

Non-degree graduate course of Humanities is established.

Sep., 1973

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

Apr., 1975 Special Course for Yogo Teachears is established.
Apr., 1979

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.

Apr., 1983

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

Apr., 1993

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.)

Apr., 1996

Division of General Education is broken up.

Apr., 1997

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.

Apr., 1999

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.)

Apr., 2004

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

 Apr., 2005

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

Apr., 2009

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.

Oct., 2009

Institute of Arts and Sciences is established.

Apr., 2015 Academic Assembly is established.
Apr., 2016

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

Apr., 2017

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

Apr., 2021

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.)

Apr., 2023
Department of General Education is established.
(Institute of Arts and Sciences is reorganized.)