Yogyakarta State University, despite its new status as a university, has made a lot of efforts to improve its quality in order to be a leading university. Those improvements are expected to support its endeavours to become a world class university. Up to the middle of 2016, the profile is as follows:
- 7 faculties
- 1 graduate school
- 64 undergraduate programs (53 bachelor's and 11 three-year-diploma)
- 35 graduate study programs (30 master's and 5 doctoral)
- 25,146 undergraduate students (2016)
- 3,405 graduate students (2016)
- 85 international students
- 103,653 alumni
- 1,067 faculty members (professors: 59, doctoral degree holders: 212)
- 964 administrative staff
- 5,831 accepted applications out of 97,033 applications submitted in 2016,
- Two types of scholarship available for foreign students
- Darmasiswa RI Scholarship Program (http://darmasiswa.kemdiknas.go.id/v2/)
- Developing Countries Partnership Scholarship (http://knb.dikti.go.id/index.php)
- 1131 research studies from 2010-2016,
- 9 (7 national and 2 international) research studies obtaining intellectual property rights in 2012
- 261,802 books in YSU’s central library consisting of public works, philosophy, psychology, religion, social sciences, languages, fundamental sciences, applied sciences & technology, arts & sports, literatures, and history & geography (as of April 2016)
- A provided access to online publications such as journals and newsletters
- A library in each faculty and the garduate school at YSU
