SSU Ukrainian and foreign students and the students of Sumy National Agrarian University met in the football tournament at the Barsa football center. The competitions for Student Friendship Football Cup were held on October 25. The representatives of Turkmenistan, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uzbekistan, Palestine, Iraq, Jordan and Ukraine took part in it.

Sumy State University begins cooperation with the international IT-company AMC Bridge. On October 23 the partnership agreement was signed at SSU. According to this agreement SSU students will have an internship at the IT-company; they may also be hired by it in the future.

Sumy State University becomes a member of the International Association  “IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence” which is headquartered in Brussel. The majority of its members voted for SSU.

The team of the Faculty of Economics and Management headed by professor Leonid Melnyk (Doctor of Economics) received a funding for two-year grant project called "Designing of institutional and economic bases of assurance of sustainable development and green economy at the regional level" for 2016-2017 years.