South-West State University

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

SouthWest State University

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	Kursk , Russia
Campus	urban
Website	http://www.swsu.ru/eng/index.php

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