Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, 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 2017, the profile is as follows:

• 7 faculties
• 1 graduate school
• 64 undergraduate programs (53 bachelor's and 11 three-year-diploma)
• 37 graduate study programs (30 master's and 7 doctoral)
• 25,146 undergraduate students (2017)
• 3,405 graduate students  (2017)
• 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 2017,
• 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 2010-2017,
• 9 (7 national and 2 international) research studies obtaining intellectual property rights in 2012
• 261,802 books in UNY’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 2017)
• A provided access to online publications such as journals and newsletters
• A library in each faculty and the graduate school at UNY