An article related to Yamagata University, "Academic-Industrial Collaboration goes into an enlargement era, Yamagata University concentrates on its specialty field with increasing crisis awareness", was released on Toyokeizai, issued on May, 15, 2017. In the column "Academic-Indusrial Collaboration goes into an enlargement era", the activities of Yamagata University's Academic-Industrial Collaboration were introduced.

Yamagata University's total received amount of collaborative research with private enterprises got a great increase and ranked No.1 in all the universities of Japan in 2015 fiscal year.

📚　Magazine Toyokeizai, an extra edition, "Really strong universities 2017"　https://store.toyokeizai.net/magazine/extranumber_list/20170515/

📚　Related article (PDF file)　http://iomform.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/uploads/toyokeizai.pdf