South-West State University

SouthWest State University
Государственное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования «Юго-западный государственный университет»
Arms of the South-West State University
Typepublic
Established1964
RectorSergey Emelyanov
Students10,920 (2023)
Location,
Campusurban
Websitehttp://www.swsu.ru/eng/index.php
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University rankings
Regional – Overall
QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia[1]301-350 (2022)

South-West State University[a] (YuZGU; Russian: Юго-Западный государственный университет (ЮЗГУ), Yugo-Zapadnyy gosudarstvennyy universitet) is a university located in Kursk, Russia.

South-West State University was founded in 1964 as the Kursk Politechnical Institute[b] as the Kursk branch of a Moscow university. It was renamed Kursk State Technical University[c] in 1995 before receiving its current name in 2010.

Its current rector is Sergey Emelyanov.

Faculties

As of January 2010, the university had 8 faculties. Here is the full list of faculties, according to the official web-site:[2]

  • Faculty of Innovations and Management
  • Faculty of Informatics and Computer Engineering
  • Faculty of Economics
  • Faculty of Building and Architecture
  • Faculty of Technologies and Design
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Mining
  • Faculty of Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communications

References

Notes

  1. ^ Officially Russian: Государственное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования «Юго-западный государственный университет», romanizedGosudarstvennoye obrazovatel'noye uchezhdenie vysshego progressional'nogo obrazovaniya
    "State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "South-West State University""
  2. ^ Russian: Курский политехнический институт, romanizedKurskiy politekhnicheskiy institut
  3. ^ Russian: Курский государственный технический университет (КурскГТУ), romanizedKurskiy gosudarstvennyy tekhnocheskyy universitet (KurskSTU)

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