Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta is preparing as a World Class Education University (UKKD) in 2025, according to the target in the World University ranking of QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) (WUR), QS WUR is an international survey institution (www.topuniversities.com) that seeks to rank universities in this world.

Female cyclist from the Psychology Department FIP UNY won 1st place in the Criterium of the Women Elite Tour de Linggarjati 2018 and won 2nd place in the Women's Elite Tour de Linggarjati 2018 in the Tour de Linggarjati International Bicycle Race Event. Liontin is listed as a 2018 Psychology student. Women's Elite degree is a prestigious title in a bicycle race.

The field of community music is becoming a global phenomenon. Its growth adds insight into the expanded cultural context and is challenged to accept ideas and priorities in the field. With the increase in scholarships and academic programs in the music community the number of enthusiasts in this field is increasing rapidly throughout the world. Thus the agenda and context in this field need to be improved. As stated by the President of the International Society for Music Education Prof.

Mechanical Engineering Education Department Student Association Faculty of Engineering Yogyakarta State University successfully held Mechanical Fair (10/13/2018). This agenda is an annual activity enlivened with two branches of competition, namely Java CAD Competition and 3G Welding Competition for vocational students.

Technology and linguistic fields always go side by side. Technology provides a lot of convenience in the work of linguistics. In contrast, the linguistic field provides value from technological development. That is the explanation from Prof. James T. Collins in the Guest Lecture program in front of UNY FBS students, Wednesday (10/17/2018). In his presentation, the Professor in Malay-Polynesian Linguistics delivered a lecture entitled "Language, Linguistics, and Technologies: Innovations and Continuities."

About 60% of FMIPA UNY's lecturers are indexed by Scopus. The highest indexed article on Scopus at UNY comes from FMIPA, which is around 70%. And at FMIPA from the most Chemistry Education Department.

In the framework of online users in the 4.0 Industry era, the Rector of UNY, Prof. Dr. Sutrisna Wibawa, M.Pd, signed the MoU with the Rector of UT, Prof. Ojat Darojat, M.Bus, Ph.D, this collaboration covers the fields of education, research, community service and human resource development.

Yogyakarta State University managed to maintain its position by remaining in the first cluster of non-vocational tertiary educational institutions at the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education in 2018. The Director General of Science and Technology Institutions and Higher Education Patdono Suwignjo said that this clustering was conducted to map Indonesian universities under the auspices of the Ministry of Research and Technology to improve the quality of universities continuously high in implementing the Tridharma of higher education.

YSU’s graduate school student of educational technology, Hartoto dan Sella Mawarni, presented their work entitled Developing Learning Analytics Framework Based on Self-Regulated Learning Principle for MOOCs at the Educational Technology World Conference (ETWC) 2016 on 31 July to 4 August 2016 in Bali. The work presented by Hartoto and Sella discussed learning analytics and MOOCs in order to develop and implement the framework in Indonesia.