South-West State University

SouthWest State University (former SWSU) (Юго-Западный государственный университет, Yugo-Zapadnyj gosudarstvennyj universitet), for a time the КurskSTU (КурскГТУ), kurskij politeh (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:
 * 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