South-West State University
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South-West State University[a] (YuZGU; Russian: Юго-Западный государственный университет (ЮЗГУ), Yugo-Zapadnyy gosudarstvennyy universitet) is a university located in Kursk, Russia.
Государственное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования «Юго-западный государственный университет» | |
Arms of the South-West State University | |
| Type | public |
|---|---|
| Established | 1964 |
| Rector | Sergey Emelyanov |
| Students | 10,920 (2023) |
| Location | , |
| Campus | |
| Website | http://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 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
