South-West State University Explained

SouthWest State University
Native Name:	Государственное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования «Юго-западный государственный университет»
Established:	1964
Type:	public
Rector:	Sergej Emelianov
City:	Kursk
Country:	Russia
Campus:	urban
Website:	http://www.swsu.ru/eng/index.php

Qs Eeca:	301-350
Qs Eeca Year:	2022
Qs Eeca Ref:	^[1]

SouthWest State University (former SWSU) (Russian: Юго-Западный государственный университет, Yugo-Zapadnyj gosudarstvennyj universitet), for a time the КurskSTU (Russian: КурскГТУ), kurskij politeh (Russian: курский политех). South-West State University was founded in 1964 as Kursk Politechnical Institute. Its current rector is Sergej Emeljanov. In 1995, the university was renamed to Kursk State Technical University. In 2010 it was renamed to South-West State University.

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

External links

• South-West State University

Notes and References

1. Web site: QS World University Rankings-Emerging Europe & Central Asia . 15 January 2023.
2. http://kurskstu.ru/structura/index.php KSTU official site: University Structure (in Russian)