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
Kursk ( rus, Курск, p=ˈkursk) is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym rivers. The area around Kursk was the site of a turning point in the Soviet–German stru ...
Politechnical Institute. Its current
rector
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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 has 8 faculties. Here is the full list of faculties, according to the official web-site:
[KSTU official site: University Structure (in Russian) ]
* 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
External links
South-West State University
Kursk
Universities in Kursk Oblast
Technical universities and colleges in Russia
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